Kansenshōgaku zasshi. The Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
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A case of the urachal sinus accompanied by umbilical infection is reported. A 21-day-old female infant was seen at the hospital because of umbilical granuloma, redness and umbilical purulent discharge. The separation of the umbilical cord in her neonate was delayed. ⋯ In spite of systemic administration of antibiotic agents, the umbilical infection did not get well. After extruding of the external urachal sinus from the umbilicus, she had not had any symptoms. After 3 months the IVP did not revealed in urachal diverticulum.
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Kansenshogaku Zasshi · Jun 1998
[The correlation between tissue injury and calcium oxalate crystal production in rat's lung with experimental Aspergillus niger infection].
It is well known that calcium oxalate crystals (crystal) are commonly found in Aspergillus niger (A. niger) infection site. However, there have been no pathological reports of crystal production and tissue injury using an animal model. I experienced a case with pulmonary aspergilloma and infiltration shadow of the lung that I guessed resulted in crystal-induced inflammation. ⋯ Therefore, I think that the crystals can induce tissue injury. However, in alveolar portions, depositions of crystals were seen mainly in the margin rather than in the central part of mycelial growth, but no findings indicating injury of the alveolar epithelial cells by crystals were seen. Therefore, possibility of crystals to cause tissue injury in the alveolar portion is not yet clear.
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Kansenshogaku Zasshi · Nov 1995
[Study on purple pigmentation in five cases with purple urine bag syndrome].
We reported five patients with purple urine bag syndrome (PUBS). Four patients had indicanuria, and, in three of them, purple pigmentation was reproduced by inoculating urinary isolates, in the broth with indoxyl sulfate. ⋯ However, attempts to reproduce the purple pigment failed in two patients, and one of them did not have indicanuria. These results suggest that indicanuria is not necessarily required for the development of PUBS.
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Kansenshogaku Zasshi · Sep 1995
Case Reports[A case of AIDS patient who was hard to diagnose from an initial symptom of interstitial pneumonitis].
A thirty-six year old male was admitted to the hospital because of fever and dyspnea. On the eighth day the patient turned out to be HIV positive. Although aggressive therapy was performed, the patient died of HIV related disease such as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis and CMV infection which led to multiple organ failure seventeen days after admission. We reported a case of AIDS patient who was hard to diagnose from an initial symptom of interstitial pneumonitis.