著者

Jing Yang Jing Zhong Ling-Zhi Zhou Tao Hong Xin-Hua Xiao Ge-Bo Wen

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.51, no.16, pp.2189-2192, 2012 (Released:2012-08-15)

参考文献数

25

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10 23

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Agranulocytosis is a rare adverse effect of methimazole. The usual duration of treatment prior to the onset of agranulocytosis is approximately 1 to 4 months, and can be as long as 1 year. Agranulocytosis together with hepatotoxicity is an extremely rare idiosyncratic side effect of methimazole treatment. We present an unprecedented case of a Grave's disease patient who showed a strong reaction to methimazole with obvious agranulocytosis and hepatotoxicity which developed only six days after administration. This case, along with a literature review, is offered with the aim to increase the awareness of physicians of sudden onset agranulocytosis and hepatotoxicity from methimazole.

著者

Hideharu Hagiya Hiroyuki Hanakawa Takayuki Katsuyama Fumio Otsuka

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.53, no.15, pp.1731-1731, 2014 (Released:2014-08-01)

参考文献数

2

被引用文献数

1

著者

Masafumi Shimoda Takeshi Saraya Naoki Tsujimoto Daisuke Kurai Hajime Takizawa Hajime Goto

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.53, no.15, pp.1641-1644, 2014 (Released:2014-08-01)

参考文献数

5

被引用文献数

1 4

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A 51-year-old man was transferred to our hospital due to acute respiratory failure that had progressed over four days. A chest X-ray and thoracic computed tomography scan showed multiple faint micronodules randomly distributed throughout both lungs with ground glass opacity, suggesting miliary tuberculosis or Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Six hours after admission, the patient died of septic shock. Later, the cryptococcal antigen titer was found to be markedly elevated (1/65,536), with a positive result for anti-human immunodeficiency virus and a low CD4 cell count (12/μL). The present case is reminder that disseminated cryptococcosis with HIV infection can be misdiagnosed as miliary tuberculosis based on radiological findings.

著者

Po-Yu Tseng Der-Cherng Tarng Wu-Chang Yang Chih-Yu Yang

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.53, no.14, pp.1589-1590, 2014 (Released:2014-07-15)

参考文献数

2

被引用文献数

4

著者

Kenichiro Yaita Kazuhiko Nakaharai Yukihiro Yoshimura Motoharu Hirano

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.53, no.14, pp.1591-1592, 2014 (Released:2014-07-15)

参考文献数

2

被引用文献数

4

著者

Ryutaro Tanizaki Jin Takasaki

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.53, no.13, pp.1457-1458, 2014 (Released:2014-07-01)

参考文献数

2

著者

Jun Matsuyama Kunihiro Tsuji Hisashi Doyama Fae Kim Yasuhito Takeda Yosuke Kito Renma Ito Hiroyoshi Nakanishi Tomoyuki Hayashi Yohei Waseda Shigetsugu Tsuji Kenichi Takemura Shinya Yamada Toshihide Okada Honin Kanaya

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.51, no.16, pp.2231-2234, 2012 (Released:2012-08-15)

参考文献数

18

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8 17

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Severe hypomagnesemia is a serious clinical condition. Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) induced hypomagnesemia has been recognized since 2006. In March 2011 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration advised that long-term use of PPI can induce hypomagnesemia. We report the first Japanese case of hypomagnesemia associated with chronic use of PPIs in a 64-year-old man hospitalized for nausea, bilateral ankle arthritis, and tremor of the extremities who had convulsions 3 days after admission. Blood analysis showed severe hypomagnesemia. He had been taking rabeprazole (10 mg/day) for 5 years. After stopping rabeprazole and correcting the electrolytes imbalances, his symptoms improved without recurrence.

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Hidetomo MARUYOSHI Kensuke TOYAMA Sunao KOJIMA Hiroaki KAWANO Norihisa OGATA Shinzo MIYAMOTO Tomohiro SAKAMOTO Michihiro YOSHIMURA Hisao OGAWA

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.44, no.2, pp.124-128, 2005 (Released:2005-03-05)

参考文献数

22

被引用文献数

8 20

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A 49-year-old woman complained of hearing loss and diminution of left radial arterial pulsation. She had been diagnosed with sudden deafness and treated with corticosteroids. Her audibility deteriorated again after the cessation of the therapy. Angiograms showed stenosis in the bilateral carotid arteries, the left vertebral artery, the left subclavian artery, and the pulmonary arteries. She was diagnosed with Takayasu’s arteritis. After steroid therapy was restarted, there were improvements in her audibility, radial arterial pulsation, and levels of inflammatory markers (erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, and gamma-globulin), fibrinogen, interleukin-6, and RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted).

著者

Hiroaki Kikuchi Makoto Aoyagi Kiyotaka Nagahama Yu Yajima Chisato Yamamura Yohei Arai Suguru Hirasawa Shota Aki Naoto Inaba Hiroyuki Tanaka Teiichi Tamura

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.53, no.11, pp.1131-1135, 2014 (Released:2014-06-01)

参考文献数

14

被引用文献数

3 11

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A 76-year-old woman with a history of lumbar fracture and marked proteinuria, bilateral pitting edema, malaise and pruritus was referred for an evaluation of an impaired renal function. A renal biopsy led to a tentative diagnosis of acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) with minimal change disease caused by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Following the discontinuation of oral NSAIDs, the patient's symptoms disappeared spontaneously. However, nephrotic-range proteinuria relapsed one month after discharge, following loxoprofen patch use. The withdrawal of the topical loxoprofen patches once again resulted in the disappearance of all symptoms. This is the first case report of nephrotic-range proteinuria and AIN secondary to topical NSAID patch use.

著者

Tomonori Ozeki Naotaka Ogasawara Shinya Izawa Mari Mizuno Kenichiro Yanamoto Hisatsugu Noda Noriko Okaniwa Atsushi Tanabe Makoto Sasaki Kunio Kasugai

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.11, pp.1183-1187, 2013 (Released:2013-06-01)

参考文献数

15

被引用文献数

4 10

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A 63-year-old woman was admitted with symptoms of watery diarrhea and generalized edema lasting for five months. She had been administered 15 mg/day of lansoprazole. Laboratory findings revealed severe hypoproteinemia with normal liver, renal, thyroid and adrenal functions and no proteinuria. Colonoscopy revealed edematous mucosa, minor diminished vascular transparency and apparent longitudinal linear lacerations. The histopathological findings were compatible with a diagnosis of collagenous colitis (CC). Protein leakage from the colon was identified on 99mTc-human serum albumin scintigraphy. The results indicated CC associated with protein-losing enteropathy. Discontinuing lansoprazole ameliorated the watery diarrhea and generalized edema, increased the serum albumin level and improved the hypoproteinemia.

著者

Kensuke Nakamura Ryota Inokuchi Kent Doi Tatsuma Fukuda Kurato Tokunaga Susumu Nakajima Eisei Noiri Naoki Yahagi

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.53, no.10, pp.1071-1073, 2014 (Released:2014-05-15)

参考文献数

20

被引用文献数

3 10

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Various unmeasured anions other than lactate appear in the blood of septic patients, including ketones. However, the occurrence of sepsis-induced ketoacidosis without diabetes mellitus has not been reported to date. We herein describe severe ketoacidosis in a patient with septic shock despite the absence of diabetes, alcohol and starvation. A 76-year-old woman presented with septic shock due to acute obstructive cholangitis. She exhibited ketoacidosis and a remarkably strong ion gap, except for ketones. Sepsis alone may lead to ketoacidosis in patients without diabetes under specific conditions. The accumulation of ketones and other strong anions can occur in cases involving a decreased metabolic function. There may be a pathological condition called septic ketoacidosis.

著者

Yuji Yamada Yoshitaka Miyakawa Mitsuaki Sawano Yutaka Okano

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.53, no.10, pp.1083-1085, 2014 (Released:2014-05-15)

参考文献数

15

被引用文献数

2 10

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Acquired coagulation factor deficiency is a rare disorder that occurs in patients with drug reactions, malignancy and collagen diseases as well as during pregnancy. Most cases are caused by factor VIII inhibitors. We herein describe the case of a 61-year-old Japanese man with acquired factor V inhibitor who developed symptoms 11 days after lung surgery for empyema. The patient required mechanical ventilation to treat acute respiratory failure due to severe pulmonary hemorrhage. He responded poorly to steroid pulse therapy; however, treatment with rituximab was successful.

著者

Yusuke Nakade Masaki Fujimura Noriyuki Ohkura Masako Nakata Yuko Nanbu Hiroyasu Oe Hiroshi Horita Yoshio Sakai Takashi Wada

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.18, pp.2017-2023, 2013 (Released:2013-09-15)

参考文献数

17

被引用文献数

1 4

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Objective Partial expiratory flow-volume curves have the potential to detect mild bronchoconstriction because they are not affected by the modulatory effects of deep inspiration. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the efficacy of bronchodilator therapy (BDT) in treating the cough and to assess the increase in the expiratory flow of the partial flow-volume curve at 40% above the residual volume level (PEF40) caused by treatment with a short-acting beta-2 agonist (SABA) in patients with chronic nonproductive cough. Methods We measured the reversibility of PEF40 caused by a SABA in 42 patients with chronic nonproductive cough at visit 1 (day 0). The patients received BDT for six days. The visual analogue scale (VAS) was used to assess the efficacy of BDT in treating coughing at visit 2 (day 7) (0 mm, 'no cough;' 100 mm, 'no change in coughing'). Results Reversibility of the PEF40 was correlated (r=0.690, p<0.001) with the VAS score determined at visit 2 and was higher in the patients with cough variant asthma (CVA) (44.9±18.3%) than in those with atopic cough (13.4±10.4%) (p<0.01). Conclusion Reversibility of the PEF40 predicted the efficacy of BDT in patients with chronic nonproductive cough and helped to identify patients with CVA.

著者

Masamitsu Yaguchi Hisa Yaguchi

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.49, no.16, pp.1833-1833, 2010 (Released:2010-08-13)

参考文献数

2

被引用文献数

2 4

著者

Seiji Kishi Satoshi Yamada Fumi Kishi Eriko Shibata Motokazu Matsuura Kojiro Nagai Akira Mima Hideharu Abe Toshio Doi

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.51, no.16, pp.2197-2201, 2012 (Released:2012-08-15)

参考文献数

37

被引用文献数

5 5

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The prevalence of postinfectious glomerulonephritis has decreased in most developed countries. We report the case of a previously healthy, immunocompetent 65-year-old woman who developed acute glomerulonephritis associated with human parvovirus B19 infection. She was referred by her primary care physician for suspected congestive heart failure but she had an elevated creatinine level and an abnormal urinalysis. Renal biopsy showed diffuse endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis. After biopsy, we learned that she had been in frequent contact with her grandson who had been diagnosed with erythema infectiosum. Her human parvovirus B19 serum IgM titer was elevated at 3.50, indicating current infection.

著者

Shoichi Fukui Yasunobu Takizawa Naoko Kubota Tomomi Okamoto Tsunekazu Hishima

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.53, no.7, pp.805-808, 2014 (Released:2014-04-01)

参考文献数

25

被引用文献数

1 5

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A 48-year-old man visited our hospital complaining of a tender mass in the left side of the neck. He was diagnosed with tuberculous lymphadenitis based on the results of a biopsy. Shortly after the diagnosis, oral aphthae, erythema nodosum-like lesions on the lower legs and genital ulcers developed. A diagnosis of cutaneous tuberculosis was ruled out according to a negative mycobacterial culture of tissues obtained from stained smears and lesional biopsy specimens. The patient's symptoms remitted following the introduction of antituberculous therapy. We assume that tuberculous lymphadenitis was strongly associated with the appearance of Behçet's disease-like symptoms in this case.

著者

Po-Yu Liu Chin-Fu Lin Kwong-Chung Tung Ching-Lin Shyu Ming-Ju Wu Jai-Wen Liu Chi-Sen Chang Kun-Wei Chan Jin-An Huang Zhi-Yuan Shi

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.4, pp.431-438, 2013 (Released:2013-02-15)

参考文献数

50

被引用文献数

6 43

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Objective Shewanella bacteremia is an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. Although hepatobiliary diseases have been proposed to be risk factors for various Shewanella infections, little is known about the features of Shewanella bacteremia in patients with hepatobiliary diseases. This study aims to characterize the presentation and risk factors of Shewanella bacteremia in patients with hepatobiliary diseases. Methods We retrospectively investigated the clinical features, microbiology and outcomes of patients with Shewanella bacteremia who were admitted to a tertiary medical center between January 2001 and December 2010. All isolates were confirmed to the species level using 16S rRNA sequencing analyses. The English language medical literature was searched for previously published reports. Results Fifty-nine cases of Shewanella bacteremia, including nine at the hospital, were identified, 28 (47.4%) of which involved underlying hepatobiliary diseases, representing an important risk factor. In 12 of the 28 cases, the infections involved the hepatobiliary system; with a tendency towards an Asian origin. In our case series of nine patients, Shewanella haliotis was isolated in five patients. The majority of our patients lived in coastal areas, consumed seafood regularly and developed bacteremia during the summer season. Conclusion It is recommended that the possibility for Shewanella infection be considered in patients with bacteremia and also underlying hepatobiliary diseases, particularly if patients present with hepatobiliary infections, a history of seafood, or development of the disease during the summer.

著者

Hideharu Hagiya Maya Kimura Toru Miyamoto Yuto Haruki Fumio Otsuka

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.53, no.5, pp.511-514, 2014 (Released:2014-03-01)

参考文献数

11

被引用文献数

2 7

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Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is a self-limiting type of drug eruption that frequently occurs as a reaction to antibiotics, particularly penicillins or macrolides. Daptomycin (DAP) is a newly developed antibiotic that specifically targets methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. We herein present the case of a 77-year-old severe burn victim who was diagnosed with DAP-induced AGEP while receiving treatment in an intensive care unit. Although rare, physicians should be aware that the administration of DAP can cause AGEP, which may complicate the clinical course of patients with a high fever and inflammation.

著者

Asami Nimura Nobuyuki Sato Hitoshi Sakuragi Satoshi Koyama Junichi Maruyama Ahmed Karim Talib Naoki Nakagawa Naka Sakamoto Hisanobu Ota Yasuko Tanabe Toshiharu Takeuchi Yuichiro Kawamura Naoyuki Hasebe

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.50, no.18, pp.1957-1961, 2011 (Released:2011-09-15)

参考文献数

14

被引用文献数

5

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We describe a case of advanced atrioventricular (AV) block, in which treatment with cilostazol was effective in recovering the AV conduction. The patient was referred to our hospital for close examination of the advanced AV block and permanent pacemaker implantation. Although the patient had experienced third-degree AV block with occasional AV synchrony for more than two days, the AV conduction completely recovered after treatment with oral cilostazol at 200 mg/day. Here we discuss the possible mechanism of the improvement in the AV conduction by cilostazol.

著者

Kensaku Aihara Tomohiro Handa Sonoko Nagai Kiminobu Tanizawa Kizuku Watanabe Yuka Harada Yuichi Chihara Takefumi Hitomi Toru Oga Tomomasa Tsuboi Kazuo Chin Michiaki Mishima

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.50, no.11, pp.1157-1162, 2011 (Released:2011-06-01)

参考文献数

32

被引用文献数

8 37

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Objective We identified the prognostic relevance of pneumothorax in interstitial lung disease (ILD) patients and evaluated the efficacy and safety of autologous blood-patch pleurodesis. Methods We retrospectively reviewed 59 occurrences of pneumothorax in 34 ILD patients identified over a 12-year period. Results Air leakage ceased in 16 of 22 (72.7%) episodes after blood pleurodesis and in 11 of 14 (78.6%) episodes after chemical pleurodesis. Both the cure ratio and recurrence ratio in the cure episodes were comparable with those in the chemical pleurodesis group (p=0.99 and 0.99, respectively). In addition, there were no harmful events associated with blood pleurodesis. The median survival time after the first episode of pneumothorax was less than 9 months in patients with idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP) and only around 3 years in the patients with other types of ILD, which have essentially favorable outcomes. Kaplan-Meier survival estimates were significantly worse in the patients with concomitant pneumomediastinum than in those without (p<0.05). A multivariate Cox regression analysis identified that the number of episodes of pneumothorax, IIP diagnosis and concomitant pneumomediastinum were independent predictors of death. Conclusion Autologous blood-patch pleurodesis is safe and worth considering as a first-line treatment for pneumothorax secondary to ILD. However, despite treatments, the prognosis after the onset of pneumothorax in ILD patients was found to be poor. In addition, concomitant pneumomediastinum may further worsen the prognosis.