Internal medicine
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We herein report the case of a 14-year-old girl who had been experiencing chronic fatigue, febricula, and social withdrawal for 20 months. No notable abnormalities were identified during routine checkups at a general pediatric hospital; symptomatic treatments did not affect her condition. ⋯ After several weeks of treatment, all of the symptoms had been dramatically alleviated, consequently resolving the issue of non-attendance at school. Shosaikoto-based medication may be a therapeutic option for treating ME/CFS in patients presenting with chronic febricula.
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Helicobacter pylori can infect the gastric mucosa and cause chronic inflammation, resulting in various diseases, including gastric cancer. Eradication of H. pylori in all infected subjects is recommended; however, the number of H. pylori strains with antibiotic resistance has increased, and the eradication rate has decreased. ⋯ The H. pylori eradication rate with vonoprazan-based triple therapy (vonoprazan, amoxicillin, and clarithromycin) was approximately 90% and had an incidence of adverse events similar to that of PPIs. We review the current situation of H. pylori eradication in Japan, the first country in which vonoprazan was made available.
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Systemic therapy for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has dramatically changed in the latest 15 years. Molecular-targeted therapy has brought about an era of precision medicine, and immune checkpoint inhibitors have brought hope for a cure for advanced NSCLC. ⋯ IP, especially idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), is often accompanied by lung cancer, and acute exacerbation can develop during various cancer therapies, including surgery, radiotherapy and pharmacotherapy. In this review, we focus on the clinical questions concerning pharmacotherapy in cases of advanced lung cancer with comorbid IP and discuss what we can do with the currently available data.
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A small proportion of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) are accompanied by type 1 autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP); however their clinical courses and image characteristics have not been fully reported. A 65-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for the examination of a pancreatic head cyst that had shown exacerbation for two years. Several images demonstrated a multilocular cyst with a symmetrically thickened, enhanced, cyst wall. ⋯ The resected specimens showed a multilocular cyst with solid areas. The solid areas demonstrated pathological findings that corresponded with type 1 AIP. Papillary epithelia suggestive of IPMN was recognized in some parts of the cystic wall.
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A 73-year-old man was transferred to our hospital with dyspnea and left hemiplegia. The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, entrapped thrombus in patent foramen ovale (PFO), and internal carotid artery occlusion was made by imaging studies. ⋯ After endovascular treatment, he successfully underwent surgical embolectomy for entrapped thrombus in PFO. Endovascular treatment without tPA administration and subsequent surgical embolectomy seems to be a viable treatment strategy for patients with occlusion of the large cerebral artery accompanied by entrapped thrombus in PFO.