著者
Hiroki TANAKA Kiyoshi UCHIYAMA Takao SHIMIZU Hiroshi FUNAKUBO
出版者
The Ceramic Society of Japan
雑誌
Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan (ISSN:18820743)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.128, no.8, pp.436-440, 2020-08-01 (Released:2020-08-01)
参考文献数
24
被引用文献数
1 4

A SrZrO3 thin film with yttrium (Y) concentration of 20 at % (SZYO) was successfully deposited by the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. The laser power of PLD affected Y-concentration significantly even though it used the same PLD target. On contrary, the laser reputation frequency and the deposition temperature did not significantly affect the composition. The SZYO film deposited at the optimized conditions was well crystallized and showed no secondary phase and showed (111) and (110) orientations when they were deposited on (111)Pt/SiOx/Si and on (111)Pd/(111)Pt/SiOx/Si substrates, respectively. This SZYO film is expected to use as an electrode of our proposed novel solid oxide fuel cells.
著者
Michihisa Tohda Hiroshi Watanabe
出版者
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
雑誌
Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin (ISSN:09186158)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.41, no.11, pp.1627-1631, 2018-11-01 (Released:2018-11-01)
参考文献数
6
被引用文献数
3 5

This review article mentions about the following points, and proposes its importance and positive thinking. 1) Wakan-yaku (Japanese oriental medicines) is covered by the national health insurance system in Japan as therapeutic drugs to be actively used in medical practice to treat illness. 2) Applications of Wakan-yaku is accomplished based on the reliable own theories which are established with long histories. 3) Promotion of studies based on these theories will be highly expected to find novel view points which breaks conventional concepts and to novel standards for developing new medicinal drugs. Although studies based on the reliable Wakan-yaku theories are not advancing satisfactorily till now, the possibilities to obtain the advanced resources for drugs and novel viewpoints for experiments by studies about Wakan-yaku theories are discussed in this review.
著者
Emi CHIKUIE Seiji FUGISAKI Soutarou FUKUHARA Kouki IMAOKA Yuzo HIRATA Saburo FUKUDA Mamoru TAKAHASHI Hiroshi SAKAI Masafumi SUESHIRO Hideto SAKIMOTO
出版者
Hiroshima University Medical Press
雑誌
Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences (ISSN:00182052)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.67, no.2, pp.47-49, 2018 (Released:2020-03-28)
参考文献数
12

An 82-year-old woman swallowed a fish bone and presented to our hospital 3 days later when she had breathing difficulty and became hypotensive. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed a linear structure with high bone density extending from the oesophagus into the pericardium, along with pericardial effusion, air, and a left pleural effusion. We diagnosed the patient with oesophageal perforation by a foreign body (a fish bone) leading to pericardial penetration, cardiac tamponade, and left empyema. The patient underwent emergency surgery. Pericardial fenestration and drainage of the pericardial and thoracic cavities were performed. Chest CT showed a recurrent abscess cavity in the pericardium on day 6. A pigtail catheter was placed in the recurrent abscess cavity under CT guidance for drainage. The patient gradually improved and was discharged after 5 months.
著者
Toshiaki Toyota Takeshi Morimoto Satoshi Iimuro Retsu Fujita Hiroshi Iwata Katsumi Miyauchi Teruo Inoue Yoshihisa Nakagawa Yosuke Nishihata Hiroyuki Daida Yukio Ozaki Satoru Suwa Ichiro Sakuma Yutaka Furukawa Hiroki Shiomi Hirotoshi Watanabe Kyohei Yamaji Naritatsu Saito Masahiro Natsuaki Yasuo Ohashi Masunori Matsuzaki Ryozo Nagai Takeshi Kimura
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CJ-22-0168, (Released:2022-09-14)
参考文献数
20

Background: The relationship between very low on-treatment low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) level and cardiovascular event risk is still unclear in patients receiving the same doses of statins.Methods and Results: From the REAL-CAD study comparing high-dose (4 mg/day) with low-dose (1 mg/day) pitavastatin therapy in patients with stable coronary artery disease, 11,105 patients with acceptable statin adherence were divided into 3 groups according to the on-treatment LDL-C level at 6 months (<70 mg/dL, 70–100 mg/dL, and ≥100 mg/dL). The primary outcome measure was a composite of cardiovascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, non-fatal ischemic stroke, or unstable angina requiring emergent admission. The adjusted risks of the LDL-C <70 mg/dL group relative to the LDL-C 70–100 mg/dL group (reference) was not significantly different for the primary outcome measure in both 1 mg/day and 4 mg/day strata (HR 0.84, 95% CI 0.58–1.18, P=0.32, and HR 1.25, 95% CI 0.88–1.79, P=0.22). The adjusted risk of the LDL-C ≥100 mg/dL group relative to the reference group was not significant for the primary outcome measure in the 1 mg/day stratum (HR 0.82, 95% CI 0.60–1.11, P=0.21), whereas it was highly significant in the 4 mg/day stratum (HR 3.32, 95% CI 2.08–5.17, P<0.001).Conclusions: A very low on-treatment LDL-C level (<70 mg/dL) was not associated with lower cardiovascular event risk compared with moderately low on-treatment LDL-C level (70–100 mg/dL) in patients receiving the same doses of statins.
著者
Miki Hashimoto Hidehiro Itonaga Yasuhito Nannya Hirokazu Taniguchi Yuichi Fukuda Takafumi Furumoto Machiko Fujioka Sachie Kasai Masataka Taguchi Hiroaki Taniguchi Shinya Sato Yasushi Sawayama Sunao Atogami Keisuke Iwasaki Tomoko Hata Hiroshi Soda Yukiyoshi Moriuchi Koh Nakata Seishi Ogawa Yasushi Miyazaki
出版者
The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
雑誌
Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.59, no.8, pp.1081-1086, 2020-04-15 (Released:2020-04-15)
参考文献数
31
被引用文献数
2 4

Secondary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (sPAP) is a complication of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). A 60-year-old woman was diagnosed with MDS with excess blasts-1. Fifty-four months after the initial diagnosis, treatment with azacitidine was initiated. Seventy-three months after the diagnosis, a bone marrow examination revealed increased myeloblasts, at which time computed tomography showed diffuse ground-glass opacities and interlobular septal thickening in the bilateral lower lung fields. A lung biopsy revealed the presence of PAP; therefore, the clinical diagnosis of MDS/sPAP was confirmed. Careful attention should be paid to the development of sPAP in MDS patients with pulmonary lesions during azacitidine treatment.
著者
Chihiro Kamezaki Ami Nakashima Asako Yamada Sachiko Uenishi Hiroshi Ishibashi Natsumi Shibuya Susumu Hama Shinzo Hosoi Eiji Yamashita Kentaro Kogure
出版者
SOCIETY FOR FREE RADICAL RESEARCH JAPAN
雑誌
Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Nutrition (ISSN:09120009)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.59, no.2, pp.100-106, 2016 (Released:2016-09-01)
参考文献数
16
被引用文献数
28 34

Astaxanthin and vitamin E are both effective antioxidants that are frequently used in cosmetics, as food additives, and in to prevent oxidative damage. A combination of astaxanthin and vitamin E would be expected to show an additive anntioxidative effect. In this study, liposomes co-encapsulating astaxanthin and the vitamin E derivatives α-tocopherol (α-T) or tocotrienols (T3) were prepared, and the antioxidative activity of these liposomes toward singlet oxygen and hydroxyl radical was evaluated in vitro. Liposomes co-encapsulating astaxanthin and α-T showed no additive anntioxidative effect, while the actual scavenging activity of liposomes co-encapsulating astaxanthin and T3 was higher than the calculated additive activity. To clarify why this synergistic effect occurs, the most stable structure of astaxanthin in the presence of α-T or α-T3 was calculated. Only α-T3 was predicted to form hydrogen bonding with astaxanthin, and the astaxanthin polyene chain would partially interact with the α-T3 triene chain, which could explain why there was a synergistic effect between astaxanthin and T3 but not α-T. In conclusion, co-encapsulation of astaxanthin and T3 induces synergistic scavenging activity by intermolecular interactions between the two antioxidants.
著者
Yun-Shan Li Kazuaki Kawai Hiroshi Kasai
出版者
The Japanese Environmental Mutagen and Genome Society
雑誌
Genes and Environment (ISSN:18807046)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.29, no.3, pp.128-132, 2007 (Released:2007-09-12)
参考文献数
24
被引用文献数
7 6

To clarify the in vivo genotoxic potential of dietary style, the amounts of 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OH-dG), a marker of oxidative DNA damage, were determined by a high-performance liquid chromatography system coupled to an electrochemical detector (HPLC-ECD) in the urine of female mice to which a vitamin-deficient diet (for two months) and a sweet beverage (for two weeks) were administered. The urinary 8-OH-dG levels were clearly increased in these studies. In the vitamin-deficient diet experiment, the urinary 8-OH-dG levels were increased to 1.2-fold and 1.4-fold after one month and two months, respectively. When mice were given a commercially available sweet beverage instead of water for two weeks, the urinary 8-OH-dG was increased to 1.4-fold. In the sweet beverage experiment, significant increases of the volume consumed per day were observed, as compared to the control group (water). Although the total caloric intake per day was not remarkably different between the sweet beverage- and control-group, the mice in the sweet beverage group obtained a higher ratio of calories from sugar components. These results indicated that the elevation of oxidative stress could be caused by the prolonged intake of an unbalanced diet, such as a vitamin-deficient diet or one including sweet beverages.
著者
Sunao Kojima Takeshi Yamamoto Migaku Kikuchi Hiroyuki Hanada Toshiaki Mano Takahiro Nakashima Katsutaka Hashiba Akihito Tanaka Junichi Yamaguchi Kunihiro Matsuo Naoki Nakayama Osamu Nomura Tetsuya Matoba Yoshio Tahara Hiroshi Nonogi for the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Task Force and the Guideline Editorial Committee on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) Emergency and Critical Care Committee
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Reports (ISSN:24340790)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.4, no.8, pp.335-344, 2022-08-10 (Released:2022-08-10)
参考文献数
24
被引用文献数
3

Background: In Japan, oxygen is commonly administered during the acute phase of myocardial infarction (MI) to patients without oxygen saturation monitoring. In this study we assessed the effects of supplemental oxygen therapy, compared with ambient air, on mortality and cardiac events by synthesizing evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of patients with suspected or confirmed acute MI.Methods and Results: PubMed was systematically searched for full-text RCTs published in English before June 21, 2020. Two reviewers independently screened the search results and appraised the risk of bias. The estimates for each outcome were pooled using a random-effects model. In all, 2,086 studies retrieved from PubMed were screened. Finally, 7,322 patients from 9 studies derived from 4 RCTs were analyzed. In-hospital mortality in the oxygen and ambient air groups was 1.8% and 1.6%, respectively (risk ratio [RR] 0.90; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.38–2.10]); 0.8% and 0.5% of patients, respectively, experienced recurrent MI (RR 0.44; 95% CI 0.12–1.54), 1.5% and 1.6% of patients, respectively, experienced cardiac shock (RR 1.10; 95% CI 0.77–1.59]), and 2.4% and 2.0% of patients, respectively, experienced cardiac arrest (RR 0.91; 95% CI 0.43–1.94).Conclusions: Routine supplemental oxygen administration may not be beneficial or harmful, and high-flow oxygen may be unnecessary in normoxic patients in the acute phase of MI.
著者
Yuki NAGAMATSU Hiroshi NAGAMATSU Hiroshi IKEDA Hiroshi SHIMIZU
出版者
The Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices
雑誌
Dental Materials Journal (ISSN:02874547)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.40, no.6, pp.1309-1319, 2021-11-25 (Released:2021-12-01)
参考文献数
47
被引用文献数
4

Electrolyzed waters, containing mainly hypochlorous acid, are used in dental practice because of their high microbicidal effect. For wider use, three neutral electrolyzed water-based gels, namely, HOCl-containing aqueous gels were prepared with a thickening/gelling agent in this study. We evaluated their microbicidal effects against four strains and storage stabilities indicated by available chlorine concentration. Immediately after preparation, all gels (70 ppm) could completely remove microbes by a 3-min treatment. The gel prepared with xanthan gum remarkably reduced its available chlorine concentration even under shaded and refrigerated storage conditions, failing to maintain its microbicidal effect following 1-day storage, whereas other gels, prepared with carboxyvinyl polymer or agar, maintained effective concentration (>20 ppm), with high microbicidal effects following 9-day and 21-day storage, respectively. Neutral electrolyzed water-based gels might be useful to remove oral microbes. Based on our results, agar is the most suitable thickening/gelling agent from the viewpoint of storage stability.
著者
Hiroshi Kobe Akihiro Ito Yosuke Nakanishi Akira Kuriyama Hiromasa Tachibana Tadashi Ishida
出版者
The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
雑誌
Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.61, no.15, pp.2273-2279, 2022-08-01 (Released:2022-08-01)
参考文献数
16
被引用文献数
3

Objective The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread across the world, and the utility of many drugs for treatment has been suggested. However, few studies have examined the efficacy and safety of treatment with baricitinib, remdesivir, and dexamethasone. Methods A retrospective, cohort study of patients who were admitted to Kurashiki Central Hospital in Japan between April 6 and June 29, 2021, was conducted. Differences in patients' background characteristics, clinical outcomes, and safety were investigated in the groups with and without baricitinib treatment. The primary outcome was the bacterial infection rate, and the secondary outcome was the 28-day mortality rate. An inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) analysis, including 12 covariates, was used as a propensity score analysis to reduce biases. Results In total, there were 96 patients, including 43 in the baricitinib-containing therapy (BCT) group and 53 in the non-baricitinib-containing therapy (non-BCT) group. In the BCT group, the ordinal scale on admission was 2.3% with 4, 51.1% with 5, 23.3% with 6, and 23.3% with 7. In the non-BCT group, the ordinal scale was 1.9% with 3, 18.9% with 4, 58.5% with 5, 13.2% with 6, and 7.5% with 7. After adjusting by the IPTW analysis, the BCT group did not have an increased bacterial infection rate [odds ratio (OR), 1.1; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.36-3.38; p=0.87] or 28-day mortality rate (OR, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.07-1.3; p=0.11) compared with the non-BCT group. Conclusion BCT can be administered without increasing the infection risk compared with non-BCT.
著者
Shuhei Ota Shigeshi Fuchida Haruyo Yamaguchi Takahiro Yamagishi Hiroshi Yamamoto Hiroshi Koshikawa Masanobu Kawachi
出版者
Japan Mendel Society, International Society of Cytology
雑誌
CYTOLOGIA (ISSN:00114545)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.87, no.2, pp.177-187, 2022-06-25 (Released:2022-06-25)
参考文献数
41
被引用文献数
2

Seafloor resource development in the future is expected to be accompanied by the mining of metal ores, as these sulfide ores contain valuable metals. However, the mining process is detrimental to marine oceanic environments. As a precautionary approach, innovations in the collection of environmental baseline data and new onboard assessment methods for marine environmental impacts are required. Due to the low cell density in open ocean water, techniques for rapid impact assessment of seawater without sample concentration are required. The purpose of this study was to establish a heavy metal impact assessment system for seawater samples of marine microbes using a portable flow cytometer, On-chip Sort. We established a protocol for detecting heavy metal-induced damage to cells via propidium iodide (PI) staining using algal culture strains (Bathycoccus prasinos NIES-2670, Synechococcus sp. NIES-969, Prochlorococcus sp. NIES-2885, and Cyanobium sp. NIES-981) obtained from the marine environment maintained at the Microbial Culture Collection of the National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan. Results showed that PI staining could detect the effects of heavy metals on cells. The proportion of PI-positive cells increased with an increase in the concentration of heavy metal mixture or copper exposure. Compared to cyanobacteria, damaged cells of eukaryotic algae were detected. Therefore, the effects of heavy metals on both eukaryotic and prokaryotic algae can be rapidly assessed via PI-based flow cytometry using samples containing low cell densities.
著者
Yuriko Ishida Masaru Suzuki Hiroshi Horii Junichi Nakamura Munehiro Matsumoto Sho Nakakubo Takahiro Sato Ichizo Tsujino Ryo Morita Daisuke Abo Satoshi Konno
出版者
The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
雑誌
Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.0015-22, (Released:2022-07-22)
参考文献数
23
被引用文献数
1

Pulmonary artery agenesis (PAA) is a rare congenital vascular anomaly usually diagnosed during infancy. We herein report a 67-year-old man with PAA manifesting as massive hemoptysis. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the chest revealed the diagnosis of PAA, which we speculated to have resulted in the present event. Detailed angiography provided more accurate information on the pulmonary vasculature and collateral circulation, which helped us plan tailored treatment. Although very rare, we must consider the possibility of PAA in adults with unexplained hemoptysis.
著者
Masahiro Kamimori Takeshi Isobe Hiroshi Yakushiji
出版者
The Japanese Society for Horticultural Science
雑誌
The Horticulture Journal (ISSN:21890102)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.91, no.3, pp.337-344, 2022 (Released:2022-07-21)
参考文献数
27
被引用文献数
1

We aimed to determine the suitability of ‘Reikodai 1 go’ (BC1 from interspecific hybridization of Ficus carica L. and F. erecta Thunb.) as a ceratocystis canker disease-resistant rootstock for ‘Masui Dauphine’ fig. In this study, ‘Masui Dauphine’ was grafted onto ‘Reikodai 1 go’ and grown in 45 L pots under artificial soil infestation with Ceratocystis ficicola Kajitani et Masuya. Ceratocystis canker resistance, tree growth, and fruit production was assessed by comparing scion growth and fruit production in ‘Reikodai 1 go’-grafted and ‘Masui Dauphine’ own-rooted trees. No significant differences in the initial growth of the shoots (first year of planting) was observed between ‘Reikodai 1 go’-grafted and own-rooted trees. ‘Reikodai 1 go’-grafted trees demonstrated a tendency towards scion overgrowth. Soil inoculation with C. ficicola (nine times in three years; 2 L of suspension with 105 conidia/mL per pot) resulted in the death, or inhibited growth, of own-rooted trees. However, inoculated ‘Reikodai 1 go’-grafted trees revealed no growth inhibition and had growth similar to those of non-inoculated own-rooted and non-inoculated ‘Reikodai 1 go’-grafted trees. These results suggest that ‘Reikodai 1 go’-grafted trees were highly resistant to soil infestation with C. ficicola. No significant differences were observed between ‘Reikodai 1 go’-grafted trees with or without C. ficicola inoculation in terms of fruit production (considering fruit set, date of maturation, fruit length, width, fruit weight, estimated yield, skin color, and soluble solids content). When comparing fruit production of ‘Reikodai 1 go’-grafted and own-rooted trees, no differences were observed between the two in terms of fruit characteristics. Therefore, the use of ‘Reikodai 1 go’ as a rootstock is unlikely to cause considerable problems in the fruit production of ‘Masui Dauphine’ fig trees. Overall, shoot growth and fruit production of ‘Masui Dauphine’ grafted onto ‘Reikodai 1 go’ were not significantly different from those of the own-rooted trees. Therefore, it is expected that the introduction of ‘Reikodai 1 go’ rootstock for ‘Masui Dauphine’ production will be an effective approach for controlling ceratocystis canker.
著者
Taro Uchiyama Yusuke Nakano Osamu Ueda Hiroshi Mori Masaya Nakashima Akira Noda Chiaki Ishizaki Masako Mizoguchi
出版者
The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
雑誌
Journal of Health Science (ISSN:13449702)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.54, no.5, pp.559-566, 2008 (Released:2008-10-01)
参考文献数
19
被引用文献数
63 73

We examined the effect of oral intake of pure glucosylceramide derived from konjac extract on skin barrier function evaluated by transepidermal water loss (TEWL) in hairless mice with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-induced skin roughness. The difference of TEWL between SDS-treated site and untreated sites in the pure glucosylceramide-fed group was significantly lower than that in control group on day 14 of ingestion. We investigated interleukin-1α (IL-1α) production in the hairless mouse skin, and it was significantly lower in the glucosylceramide-fed group than that of control animals. This reduced IL-1α production should contribute to improvement of skin barrier function. To investigate the effect of oral intake of glucosylceramide in human, we conducted a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study including 100 healthy subjects whose TEWL in cheek was relatively high. As a result, cheek TEWL was significantly lower in the test product group as compared with the control group in weeks 8 and 12 of ingestion (p=0.023 and p=0.002 respectively).
著者
Shoya Oyama Hiroshi Takahashi Hiroki Hayashi Shigehisa Koide Shigeru Nakai Kazuo Takahashi Daijo Inaguma Midori Hasegawa Junichi Ishii Yukio Yuzawa Naotake Tsuboi
出版者
Fujita Medical Society
雑誌
Fujita Medical Journal (ISSN:21897247)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.2022-004, (Released:2022-07-22)
参考文献数
28

Objectives: Cardiovascular and renal diseases are closely related. Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and urinary albumin are established predictors for cardiac and renal morbidities, respectively. To date, no reports have investigated the combined predictive value of BNP and urinary albumin for long-term cardiovascular–renal events in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The aim of this study was to investigate this theme.Methods: Four hundred eighty-three patients with CKD were enrolled into this study and followed-up for 10 years. The endpoint was cardiovascular–renal events.Results: During the median follow-up period of 109 months, 221 patients developed cardiovascular–renal events. Log-transformed BNP and urinary albumin were identified as independent predictors for cardiovascular–renal events, with a hazard ratio of 2.59 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.81–3.72) and 2.27 (95% CI, 1.82–2.84) for BNP and urinary albumin, respectively. For the combined variables, the group with high BNP and urinary albumin had a markedly higher risk (12.41-times; 95% CI 5.23–29.42) of cardiovascular–renal events compared with that of the group with low BNP and urinary albumin. Adding both variables to a predictive model with basic risk factors improved the C-index (0.767, 0.728 to 0.814, p=0.009), net reclassification improvement (0.497, p<0.0001), and integrated discrimination improvement (0.071, p<0.0001) more than each of them alone.Conclusions: This is the first report to demonstrate that the combination of BNP and urinary albumin can stratify and improve the predictability of long-term cardiovascular–renal events in CKD patients.
著者
HIROSHI OKADA HIROKAZU TSUKAYA MOTOHARU OKAMOTO
出版者
The Japanese Society for Plant Systematics
雑誌
Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica (ISSN:13467565)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.54, no.1, pp.69-75, 2003-06-09 (Released:2017-03-23)
参考文献数
13

Cayratia japonica showed intra-specific polyploidy of x=20, i.e., 2n=40 (diploid) and 60 (triploid). Individuals with 2n=40 produced fruits, and formed 20 bivalents at metaphase I in meiosis, but their pollen fertilities widely varied from about 30 to 90%. Individuals with 2n=60 did not produce any fruits, formed a variable number of trivalents, bivalents and univalents at metaphase I, and showed low pollen fertilities of less than 30%. The possible occurrence of some genetic types for pollen development in diploids is discussed.
著者
Katsutaka Hashiba Takahiro Nakashima Migaku Kikuchi Sunao Kojima Hiroyuki Hanada Toshiaki Mano Takeshi Yamamoto Akihito Tanaka Junichi Yamaguchi Kunihiro Matsuo Naoki Nakayama Osamu Nomura Tetsuya Matoba Yoshio Tahara Hiroshi Nonogi for the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Task Force and the Guideline Editorial Committee on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) Emergency and Critical Care Committee
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Reports (ISSN:24340790)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CR-22-0034, (Released:2022-07-13)
参考文献数
19
被引用文献数
4

Background: In the management of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), system delays for reperfusion therapy are still a matter of concern. We investigated the impact of prehospital activation of the catheterization laboratory in the management of STEMI patients.Methods and Results: This is a systematic review of observational studies. A search was conducted of the PubMed database from inception to July 2020 to identify articles for inclusion in the study. The critical outcomes were short- and long-term mortality. The important outcome was door-to-balloon time. The GRADE approach was used to assess the certainty of the evidence. Seven studies assessed short-term mortality; 1,541 were assigned to the prehospital activation (PH) group and 1,191 were assigned to the emergency department activation (ED) group. There were 26 fewer deaths per 1,000 patients in the PH group. Three studies assessed long-term mortality; 713 patients were assigned to the PH group and 1,026 were assigned to the ED group. There were 54 fewer deaths per 1,000 patients among the PH group. Five studies assessed door-to-balloon time; 959 were assigned to the PH group and 631 to the ED group. Door-to-balloon time was 33.1 min shorter in the PH group.Conclusions: Prehospital activation of the catheterization laboratory resulted in lower mortality and shorter door-to-balloon time for patients with suspected STEMI outside of a hospital.
著者
Sunao Kojima Takeshi Yamamoto Migaku Kikuchi Hiroyuki Hanada Toshiaki Mano Takahiro Nakashima Katsutaka Hashiba Akihito Tanaka Junichi Yamaguchi Kunihiro Matsuo Naoki Nakayama Osamu Nomura Tetsuya Matoba Yoshio Tahara Hiroshi Nonogi for the Japan Resuscitation Council (JRC) Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) Task Force and the Guideline Editorial Committee on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) Emergency and Critical Care Committee
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
Circulation Reports (ISSN:24340790)
巻号頁・発行日
pp.CR-22-0031, (Released:2022-07-06)
参考文献数
24
被引用文献数
3

Background: In Japan, oxygen is commonly administered during the acute phase of myocardial infarction (MI) to patients without oxygen saturation monitoring. In this study we assessed the effects of supplemental oxygen therapy, compared with ambient air, on mortality and cardiac events by synthesizing evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of patients with suspected or confirmed acute MI.Methods and Results: PubMed was systematically searched for full-text RCTs published in English before June 21, 2020. Two reviewers independently screened the search results and appraised the risk of bias. The estimates for each outcome were pooled using a random-effects model. In all, 2,086 studies retrieved from PubMed were screened. Finally, 7,322 patients from 9 studies derived from 4 RCTs were analyzed. In-hospital mortality in the oxygen and ambient air groups was 1.8% and 1.6%, respectively (risk ratio [RR] 0.90; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.38–2.10]); 0.8% and 0.5% of patients, respectively, experienced recurrent MI (RR 0.44; 95% CI 0.12–1.54), 1.5% and 1.6% of patients, respectively, experienced cardiac shock (RR 1.10; 95% CI 0.77–1.59]), and 2.4% and 2.0% of patients, respectively, experienced cardiac arrest (RR 0.91; 95% CI 0.43–1.94).Conclusions: Routine supplemental oxygen administration may not be beneficial or harmful, and high-flow oxygen may be unnecessary in normoxic patients in the acute phase of MI.
著者
Hiroshi MIKASHIMA Shuzo TAKEHARA Yoshito MURAMOTO Takako KHOMARU Michio TERASAWA Tetsuya TAHARA Yutaka MARUYAMA
出版者
The Japanese Pharmacological Society
雑誌
The Japanese Journal of Pharmacology (ISSN:00215198)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.44, no.4, pp.387-391, 1987 (Released:2006-09-15)
参考文献数
13
被引用文献数
10 9

The antagonistic effect of etizolam, an anti-anxiety drug, on platelet-activating factor (PAF) was investigated in rabbit platelets in vitro. Etizolam inhibited PAF-induced aggregation in a dose-dependent manner, with an IC50 of 3.8 μM, about one tenth that of triazolam (IC50=30 μM). At 300 μM, it inhibited both ADP and arachidonic acid-induced aggregation only slightly, while the other anti-anxiety drugs tested had no effect on PAF-induced aggregation even at this concentration. Etizolam and triazolam inhibited the specific binding of 3H-PAF to PAF receptor sites on washed rabbit platelets with IC50 values of 22 nM and 320 nM, respectively. Diazepam and estazolam were inactive even at 1 μM. These results indicate that etizolam is a specific antagonist of PAF.
著者
Yukiko Yamazaki-Hashimoto Yuji Nakamura Hiroshi Ohara Xin Cao Ken Kitahara Hiroko Izumi-Nakaseko Kentaro Ando Hiroshi Yamazaki Takanori Ikeda Junichi Yamazaki Atsushi Sugiyama
出版者
The Japanese Society of Toxicology
雑誌
The Journal of Toxicological Sciences (ISSN:03881350)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.40, no.1, pp.33-42, 2015-02-01 (Released:2014-12-18)
参考文献数
39
被引用文献数
9 11

Fluvoxamine is one of the typical selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors. While its combined use with QT-prolonging drugs has been contraindicated because of the increase in plasma concentrations of such drugs, information is still limited whether fluvoxamine by itself may directly prolong the QT interval. We examined electropharmacological effects of fluvoxamine together with its pharmacokinetic profile by using the halothane-anesthetized dogs (n = 4). Fluvoxamine was intravenously administered in three escalating doses of 0.1, 1 and 10 mg/kg over 10 min with a pause of 20 min between the doses. The low dose provided therapeutic plasma drug concentration, whereas the middle and high doses attained approximately 10 and 100 times of the therapeutic ones, respectively. Supra-therapeutic concentration of fluvoxamine exerted the negative chronotropic, inotropic and hypotensive effects; and suppressed the atrioventricular nodal and intraventricular conductions, indicating inhibitory actions on Ca2+ and Na+ channels, whereas it delayed the repolarization in a reverse use-dependent manner, reflecting characteristics of rapidly activating delayed rectifier K+ current channel-blocking property. Fluvoxamine prolonged the terminal repolarization phase at 100 times higher concentration than the therapeutic, indicating its proarrhythmic potential. Thus, fluvoxamine by itself has potential to directly induce long QT syndrome at supra-therapeutic concentrations.