著者

Hironori Uruga Takeshi Fujii Atsuko Kurosaki Shigeo Hanada Hisashi Takaya Atsushi Miyamoto Nasa Morokawa Sakae Homma Kazuma Kishi

出版者

一般社団法人 日本内科学会

雑誌

Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.52, no.12, pp.1317-1323, 2013 (Released:2013-06-15)

参考文献数

25

被引用文献数

23 107

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Objective Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (PTTM) is a unique, rare and fatal form of pulmonary arterial tumor embolism. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics and pathological and immunohistochemical findings of PTTM. Methods Autopsy records dated between January 1983 and May 2008 in our hospital were reviewed, and those of patients who died from pulmonary tumor embolism resulting from malignant neoplasm were retrieved. The relevant tissue slides were reevaluated and examined immunohistochemically to confirm the diagnosis. Results Among 2,215 consecutive autopsy cases of carcinoma, 30 patients (1.4%) were diagnosed with definitive PTTM. The common symptom was progressive dyspnea. A hypercoagulative state was observed in all measured cases (n = 21). The chest computed tomography findings (n = 6) included consolidation, ground-glass opacity, small nodules and a tree-in-bud appearance. Perfusion scans were performed in seven patients, six of whom demonstrated multiple small defects. The median survival time after the initiation of oxygen supplementation was nine days. The most frequent primary site was the stomach (n = 18 ; 60%) , and the most frequent histological type was adenocarcinoma (28/30 ; 93.3%) . The immunohistochemical findings for tumor cells located within the tumor emboli were positive for vascular endothelial growth factor (28/29 ; 96.6%) and tissue factor (29/29 ; 100%). Conclusion Clinicians should suspect PTTM in cancer patients who exhibit acute worsening respiratory insufficiency accompanied by a hypercoagulative state without embolism in major pulmonary arteries. The PTTM patients evaluated in our study had very poor prognoses. Vascular endothelial growth factor and tissue factor may play important roles in PTTM.

著者

Yuki Takada-Takatori Toshiaki Kume Yasuhiko Izumi Tetsuhiro Niidome Takeshi Fujii Hachiro Sugimoto Akinori Akaike

出版者

The Japanese Pharmacological Society

雑誌

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences (ISSN:13478613)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.112, no.3, pp.265-272, 2010 (Released:2010-03-19)

参考文献数

24

被引用文献数

4

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We have previously shown that chronic donepezil treatment induces nicotinic acetylcholine receptor up-regulation and enhances the sensitivity of the neurons to the neuroprotective effect of donepezil. Further analyses revealed that the nicotinic receptor is involved in this enhancement. In this study, we examined whether nicotinic receptor stimulation is sufficient to make neurons more sensitive to donepezil. We treated primary cultures of rat cortical neurons with nicotine and confirmed that chronic nicotine treatment induced nicotinic receptor up-regulation and made the neurons more sensitive to the neuroprotective effects of donepezil. Analyses with receptor antagonists and kinase inhibitors revealed that the effects of chronic nicotine treatment are mediated by nicotinic receptors and their downstream effectors including phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase. In contrast to chronic donepezil treatment that enhanced the level of nicotine-induced Ca2+ influx, chronic nicotine treatment did not significantly alter the level of Ca2+ influx.

著者

Toshiharu Ueno Koichi Kikuchi Ryo Hazue Koki Mise Keiichi Sumida Noriko Hayami Tatsuya Suwabe Junichi Hoshino Naoki Sawa Kenji Arizono Shigeko Hara Kenmei Takaichi Takeshi Fujii Kenichi Ohashi Yoshifumi Ubara

出版者

一般社団法人 日本内科学会

雑誌

Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.55, no.20, pp.2993-2999, 2016-10-15 (Released:2016-10-15)

参考文献数

13

被引用文献数

1 3

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A 58-year-old man was referred to our institution for an evaluation of nephrotic range proteinuria. Renal biopsy showed a marked expansion of the mesangial matrix and thickening of glomerular basement membrane (GBM) in periodic acid-silver methenamine (PAM). Immunofluorescence (IF) revealed strong staining for the monoclonal kappa light chain. EM demonstrated massive subendothelial and mesangial dense deposits. As a result, light chain deposition disease (LCDD) was diagnosed. Melphalan and prednisolone (MP) therapy was started, which was continued for 10 years with minimal complications. Serial evaluations of renal histology revealed the resolution of nodular lesions and the glomeruli became nearly normal. MP therapy can therefore be an effective therapeutic option for LCDD if it is continued over the long term.

著者

Sadatomo Tasaka Hitoshi Tokuda Fumikazu Sakai Takeshi Fujii Kazuhiro Tateda Takeshi Johkoh Norio Ohmagari Hiromitsu Ohta Hideki Araoka Yoshimi Kikuchi Masahide Yasui Kanako Inuzuka Hajime Goto

出版者

The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine

雑誌

Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.49, no.4, pp.273-281, 2010 (Released:2010-02-15)

参考文献数

21

被引用文献数

24 61

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Background The clinical features of pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) differ according to the predisposing factors responsible for immunosuppression. Although PCP in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been extensively described, its characteristics in non-AIDS patients, such as those with malignancies, are not thoroughly documented. Study objective To characterize and compare the clinical and imaging features of PCP in patients with malignancies with those in AIDS patients. Design A multi-center retrospective study. Patients and Measurements We evaluated the clinical and radiological features of PCP in 21 patients with malignancies and in 17 with AIDS. Clinical presentation, serum markers, oxygenation, CT findings, and outcome were examined. Results The patients with malignancies showed shorter durations of symptoms before PCP was diagnosed. The levels of serum markers and the oxygenation index did not differ. CT showed diffuse or widespread ground-glass opacity (GGO) in all of the patients evaluated. None of the AIDS patients demonstrated consolidation, whereas half of the patients with malignancy showed consolidation along with GGO. The extent of GGO scored on CT images was significantly greater in the AIDS patients. No correlation was observed between the CT findings and other clinical parameters. All of the AIDS patients recovered from PCP, whereas six patients with malignancies died within a month after the onset of PCP. Conclusion The characteristics of the CT images differed between the patient groups with different underlying disorders, although it remains to be determined whether CT findings are associated with other clinical features or are predictive of the outcome of PCP.