Among 232 cases of operable breast cancer treated by the 2nd Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, between 1963 and 1982, 7 cases (3. 0%) were followed by a second primary malignancy. Eighty six percent of the second primary malignancies were found in digestive systems. The incidence of a second primary malignancy was 6. 1%* (5/82) in the irradiated group and 1. 3%* (2...

BACKGROUND Hypertension control is an important and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The overall rate of hypertension control among patients followed in cardiology clinics, as well as clinician variability in control rates, is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with hypertension (n=5979) routinely followed in a cardiology clini...

Acute Necrotizing Esophagitis is an uncommon pathology, characterized by endoscopic finding of diffuse black coloration in esophageal mucosa and histological presence of necrosis in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The first case of acute necrotizing esophagitis followed by duodenal necrosis, in 81 years old woman with a positive history of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, ...

Inflationary models with a superheavy scale F-term hybrid inflation followed by an intermediate scale modular inflation are considered. The restrictions on the power spectrum PR of curvature perturbation and the spectral index ns from the recent data within the power-law cosmological model with cold dark matter and a cosmological constant can be met provided that the number of e-foldings NHI∗ s...

solicitude. One of the most dangerous consequences of such an accident is inflammation, which frequently occurs, and which, in this case, proved the cause of the patient's death. The patient is generally found suffering from haemorrhage, with the placenta left in the uterus. Mrs , set. 32, was born in Edinburgh, of healthy parents, who lived to an advanced age. She had had six children and seve...

A case of complete Ganser syndrome resolved after one week, but was immediately followed by a major depressive episode. The two disorders had a common cause, which is best encapsulated in a psychodynamic formulation.

We report the case of a 66-year-old Japanese man who developed neovascular glaucoma secondary to Purtscher's retinopathy following a head injury. The patient presented at our hospital with blurred vision and a visual field abnormality in his left eye 1 month after suffering from a head injury. Upon initial presentation, his best-corrected visual acuity on a decimal chart was 1.5 oculus dexter a...

A 17-year-old, 37-kg Brazilian man was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis at the age of 7 years and underwent liver transplant (cadaveric) at the age of 14 . Immunosup pressants included tacrolimus and prednisone. He had lost 3 kg over the previous year and had diarrhea with blood streaks in the previous 3 months but no history of fever. Laboratory tests showed pancytopenia (hemoglobin = 8.1 g...