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  1. Respiratory management in patients with esophagobronchial fistulae is challenging since positive pressure ventilation (PPV) may not be feasible due to air leaks and possible risks for regurgitation and aspirat...

    Authors: Seiji Ishikawa, Tsubasa Akune, Tomoko Ishibashi and Koshi Makita
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:31
  2. The accuracy of simulation-predicted fentanyl concentration in different types of surgical procedure is not fully understood. We wished to estimate the effect of different types of surgical procedure on the ac...

    Authors: Yoshihito Fujita, Saya Yoshizawa, Maiko Hoshika, Koichi Inoue, Shoko Matsushita, Hisao Oka and Kazuya Sobue
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:30
  3. We report that sevoflurane not only caused marked QTc interval prolongation but also increased transmural dispersion of repolarization in a patient with long QT syndrome 3 (LQT3). A 16-year-old male with LQT3 ...

    Authors: Atsuhiro Kitaura, Shinichi Nakao, Shinichi Hamasaki, Kei Houri, Takatoshi Tsujimoto, Seishi Kimura and Mayuka Matsushima
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:29
  4. The major perioperative concern in patients with second-degree atrioventricular (AV) block is the progression to complete AV block. Therefore, the prophylactic implantation of a temporary pacemaker prior to su...

    Authors: Marie Shigematsu-Locatelli, Takashi Kawano, Atsushi Nishigaki, Daiki Yamanaka, Bun Aoyama, Hiroki Tateiwa, Noriko Kitaoka and Masataka Yokoyama
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:27
  5. Patients with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) are susceptible to significant vascular complications, such as aortic and visceral arterial ruptures, aneurysms, and dissection. We describe a case of repeat...

    Authors: Yuichiro Shimoyama, Osamu Umegaki, Tomoyuki Agui, Noriko Kadono and Toshiaki Minami
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:26
  6. Bacillus cereus (B. cereus) rarely causes lower respiratory tract infections, although most reported cases of B. cereus pneumonia are fatal despite intensive antibiotic therapy. We pre...

    Authors: Yuichiro Shimoyama, Osamu Umegaki, Yukimasa Ooi, Tomoyuki Agui, Noriko Kadono and Toshiaki Minami
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:25
  7. Central venous catheters (CVCs) are commonly used in the management of critically ill patients. This study aimed to determine whether an educational program could reduce the rate of catheter-related bloodstrea...

    Authors: Yuichiro Shimoyama, Osamu Umegaki, Tomoyuki Agui, Noriko Kadono, Nobuyasu Komasawa and Toshiaki Minami
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:23
  8. Hyperventilation syndrome (HVS) sometimes occurs in patients under stressful conditions and may provoke severe complications such as myocardial infarction and death. The authors report a case of HVS following ...

    Authors: Junichi Saito, Erika Amanai and Kazuyoshi Hirota
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:22
  9. Extubation is a more challenging medical practice than intubation, and countermeasures against it are similar to those described in the Difficult Intubation Guidelines, but problems cannot be overcome by compl...

    Authors: Mariko Nagata, Yasuyo Shimomura, Yoshitaka Hara, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Seiko Hayakawa, Hidefumi Komura, Junpei Shibata, Chizuru Yamashita and Osamu Nishida
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:21
  10. Since acute respiratory failure (ARF) is a life-threatening complication, particularly in the gestational period, differential diagnosis and rapid treatment are required. Among the various causes of sudden ons...

    Authors: Yuki Sugiyama, Ryusuke Tanaka, Yuki Yoshiyama, Takashi Ichino, Norimasa Hishinuma, Sari Shimizu, Noriko Imai, Kunihiro Mitsuzawa and Mikito Kawamata
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:20
  11. Patients with complex congenital heart disease increasingly undergo noncardiac surgeries because of advancements in surgical techniques and medical management. In Fontan circulation, maintaining an adequate tr...

    Authors: Toshiyuki Nakanishi, Kazuyoshi Ishida, Kiyotaka Shiramoto and Mishiya Matsumoto
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:19
  12. As pregnancy accelerates glioma growth, therapeutic abortion has been recommended prior to tumor resection. Additionally, it has also been suggested that the extent of glioma resection is closely correlated wi...

    Authors: Kotoe Kamata, Risa Fukushima, Minoru Nomura and Makoto Ozaki
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:18
  13. Following cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) surgery, severe brain edema and hemorrhage may be caused by postoperative normal perfusion pressure breakthrough (NPPB). Sedation is necessary for this popul...

    Authors: Chanatthee Kitsiripant, Kotoe Kamata, Rie Kanamori, Koji Yamaguchi, Makoto Ozaki and Minoru Nomura
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:17
  14. Easier to perform than the conventional procedure, mini-tracheostomy (MT) is widely used in the operating room or intensive care unit to remove sputum or other obstructions of the upper airway. This option, ho...

    Authors: Hiroshi Inoue, Jun Ito, Hiroaki Uchida, Mariko Morita, Takahiko Masuda, Kazuhiro Yamaya, Masaki Hata and Shigeaki Kato
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:16
  15. Acute bioprosthetic valve thrombosis can occur after surgery and sometimes cause hemodynamic instability and cardiogenic shock. Risk factors for bioprosthetic valve thrombosis are hypercoagulability, atrial fi...

    Authors: Tatsuyuki Imada, Sho Carl Shibata, Kenta Okitsu and Yuji Fujino
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:15
  16. Coronary ostial stenosis is a life-threatening complication of aortic valve replacement (AVR). Clinical symptoms usually appear within the first 6 months after AVR (Funada and Mizuno et al., Circ J 70:1312–7, ...

    Authors: Naomi Ono, Toshiyuki Sawai and Hisanari Ishii
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:14
  17. A 13-month-old infant weighing 8.3 kg with a height of 72.3 cm visited our hospital for surgical resection of facial vascular malformation detected at birth. Because we anticipated the patient would have diffi...

    Authors: Kumi Moriyama, Masanori Mitsuda, Masakazu Kurita, Mine Ozaki, Kiyoshi Moriyama and Tomoko Yorozu
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:12
  18. Subglottic stenosis can lead to life-threatening difficult tracheal intubation during general anesthesia. We report a case of difficult tracheal intubation in an 11-month-old female who had unrecognized subglo...

    Authors: Natsuko Ohsima, Fumimasa Amaya, Shunsuke Yamakita, Yoshinobu Nakayama, Hideya Kato, Yumi Muranishi, Toshiaki Numajiri and Teiji Sawa
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:10
  19. A scalp block or wound infiltration of local anesthetic is thought to effectively control post-craniotomy pain. However, it can result in local anesthetic toxicity (LAST), which is difficult to distinguish fro...

    Authors: Rintaro Hoshino, Yoshinori Kamiya, Yuka Fujii and Tsunehisa Tsubokawa
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:9
  20. Glycosylation is one of the major posttranslational modifications of proteins and it is essential for proteins to obtain normal biological functions. Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDGs) are very rare ...

    Authors: Wataru Sakai, Yusuke Yoshikawa, Yasuyuki Tokinaga and Michiaki Yamakage
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:8
  21. Patient satisfaction with postoperative pain management is an important quality indicator in patient health care, but its determinants are poorly understood. Here, we examined the contribution of the discrepan...

    Authors: Marie Shigematsu-Locatelli, Takashi Kawano, Sonoe Kitamura, Atsushi Nishigaki, Daiki Yamanaka, Bun Aoyama, Hiroki Tateiwa and Masataka Yokoyama
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:5
  22. A 36-year-old parturient with a suspicion of placenta accreta under tocolytic therapy with ritodrine infusion underwent emergency cesarean section under general anesthesia with propofol, ketamine, and remifent...

    Authors: Daiki Takekawa, Kei Jinushi, Masato Kitayama and Kazuyoshi Hirota
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:3
  23. Epidural blood patch (EBP) is a recognized treatment for spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak (SCFL) and is typically administered by the interlaminar approach. Here, we report a case of a patient in whom SCFL...

    Authors: Aki Fujiwara, Keisuke Watanabe, Keiji Hashizume, Kozue Shinohara, Michiko Fukumoto, Katsuhiro Kimoto and Masahiko Kawaguchi
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:2
  24. Although data from several studies support the use of arginine vasopressin (AVP) for the treatment of hypotension concomitant with pulmonary hypertension (PH) in the cardiac surgery setting, to our knowledge, ...

    Authors: Toshiyuki Mizota, Kohei Fujiwara, Miho Hamada, Shino Matsukawa and Hajime Segawa
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2017 3:1
  25. In 1976, Gonzales-Crussi et al. (Am. J. Dis. Child. 130:1015–18, 1976) introduced the first case of bridging bronchus as a rare bronchial branching anomaly; since then, only 14 worldwide cases was described. W...

    Authors: Ashraf El-Molla, Mohamed Daabiss, Rashed Al-Otaibi, Hussein Al-Qudaihy and Samir Bawazir
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:44
  26. Post-herpetic itch (PHI) is a neuropathic itch syndrome following herpes zoster. It has been reported that PHI is occasionally sufficiently severe to compromise patients’ quality of life and frequently refract...

    Authors: Daiki Yamanaka, Takashi Kawano, Marie Shigematsu-Locatelli, Atsushi Nishigaki, Sonoe Kitamura, Bun Aoyama, Hiroki Tateiwa, Noriko Kitaoka and Masataka Yokoyama
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:43
  27. Giant cell myocarditis, characterized by infiltration of multinucleated giant cells in the myocardium, is a rare type of myocarditis. It often progresses rapidly into fulminant heart failure and indicates a po...

    Authors: Yusuke Takei, Yutaka Ejima, Hiroaki Toyama, Kana Takei, Takahisa Ota and Masanori Yamauchi
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:41
  28. Surgery cancellation results in unavailability of the operating room and loss time. We identified the frequency of and reasons for operation cancellations after patients entered the operating room and assessed...

    Authors: Yoko Hori, Ayami Nakayama and Atsuhiro Sakamoto
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:40
  29. It has been reported that prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) stay after cardiac surgery is associated with poor patient outcome. In addition, prolonged stay can block the efficient use of ICU beds with an inc...

    Authors: Satoko Noguchi, Junichi Saito, Eiji Hashiba, Tetsuya Kushikata and Kazuyoshi Hirota
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:39
  30. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome is characterized by reversible neurological symptoms with leukoencephalopathy detectable by computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.

    Authors: Nobuo Sato, Haruhiko Machida, Mitsuharu Kodaka, Keiko Nishiyama and Makiko Komori
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:38
  31. The occurrence of spinal epidural hematomas associated with the use of epidural catheters is relatively rare. Furthermore, it is unusual for hematoma-associated neurological symptoms to occur within 15 min of ...

    Authors: Takeshi Umegaki, Kiichi Hirota, Sayaka Ohira, Takeo Uba, Munenori Kusunoki, Akihisa Okamoto, Kenichiro Nishi and Takahiko Kamibayashi
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:37
  32. Schwartz–Jampel syndrome (SJS) is a rare disorder characterized by micrognathia, kyphoscoliosis, and myotonia. The greatest challenge in the anesthetic management of patients with SJS is performing tracheal in...

    Authors: Keika Mukaihara, Kohei Godai, Tomotsugu Yamada, Maiko Hasegawa-Moriyama and Yuichi Kanmura
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:36
  33. A 66-year-old man with thrombocytosis was brought to our hospital to undergo removal of a left ventricular thrombus. He had developed cerebral infarction 6 days before presenting to the hospital and suffered f...

    Authors: Mika Nakanishi, Eri Oota, Takehiro Soeda, Kaoru Masumo, Yukihiko Tomita, Takeshi Kato and Toshihiro Imanishi
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:35
  34. Cervical nerves block cannot be performed on some patients because of the risk of phrenic nerve paralysis. To overcome this limitation, we discovered the site of selective only supraclavicular nerve block at t...

    Authors: Hironobu Ueshima and Hiroshi Otake
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:34

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  35. A solitary iliac aneurysm (SIA) is more uncommon than an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The aneurysm is located in the deep pelvis and is diagnosed when it reaches a large size with symptoms of compression around ...

    Authors: Shintaro Doi, Yoshiaki Motoyama and Hiromi Ito
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:33
  36. In spinal anesthesia for cesarean section, the addition of fentanyl to the local anesthetic has been reported to improve perioperative analgesia. However, there is only limited knowledge on sedative effects of...

    Authors: Hiroki Iwata, Hiroaki Sakai, Souichiro Mimuro, Nako Uozaki, Hiromitsu Yamaguchi, Kenji Takahashi and Yoshito Shiraishi
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:32
  37. Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is a potentially life-saving procedure which effectively removes donor-specific human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies from the bloodstream, allowing critically ill heart tr...

    Authors: Andrew Crabbe, John S. McNeil, Seema P. Deshpande, Zachary Kon, Si M. Pham and Kenichi A. Tanaka
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:31
  38. Congenital factor VII (FVII) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive coagulation disorder that is characterized by prolongation of prothrombin time. Recombinant activated FVII (rFVIIa) is widely used in the m...

    Authors: Akari Yoshida, Yoshiki Kimoto, Kanako Ejiri, Yasuyuki Mitani and Tomoyuki Kawamata
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:30
  39. Here, we report the case of a patient who developed protamine shock during a transcatheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) procedure, which was diagnosed by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). A...

    Authors: Akihisa Kataoka, Yusuke Watanabe, Shutaro Seki, Shintaro Takamura, Hirofumi Hioki, Hiroyuki Kyono, Shigehito Sawamura and Ken Kozuma
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:29
  40. Recently, rocuronium with subsequent use of sugammadex was proposed for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) as an alternative to succinylcholine. Because sugammadex is cleared via the kidney with no metabolism, it...

    Authors: Shigeaki Kurita, Katsuyuki Moriwaki, Kazuhisa Shiroyama, Mikako Sanuki, Yukari Toyota and Minoru Takebayashi
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:28
  41. Very few studies have investigated the blood flow velocity from the inferior vena cava (IVC) to the pulmonary artery following the Fontan operation using an extra-cardiac conduit (ECC). No studies at all have ...

    Authors: Satoshi Kurokawa, Kenji Doi, Shihoko Iwata, Keita Sato, Yusuke Seino, Minoru Nomura and Makoto Ozaki
    Citation: JA Clinical Reports 2016 2:27