The Combination Therapy of Dissolution Using Carbonated Liquid and Endoscopic Procedure for Bezoars: Pragmatical and Clinical Review.

Bezoars are relatively rare foreign bodies of gastrointestinal tract and often cause ileus and ulcerative lesions in the stomach and subsequent bleeding and perforation due to their size and stiffness. Therefore, the removal of bezoars is essential and recent development of devices, the endoscopic removal procedure, is often applied. However, due to their stiffness, simple endoscopic removal failed in not a few cases, and surgical removal has also been used.

[Effective Prevention of Hand-Foot Syndrome by the Consumption of Dried Bonito Broth].

To examine whether the consumption of dried bonito both is effective for the prevention of hand-foot syndrome(HFS), concentrated bonito broth was administered to 10 patients with HCC who were treated with sorafenib. Among the 10 patients, seven showed an increase in peripheral blood flow, as observed on Doppler ultrasonography. Only one patient showed Grade 1 HFS on day 14 after the initiation of sorafenib (10%); this incidence rate of HFS was significantly lower than that obtained in our previous studies and reported data.

First case of bacteremia caused by Helicobacter cinaedi in a patient with liver cirrhosis: a case report and literature review.

Patients with liver cirrhosis are known to be immunocompromised hosts due to the dysfunction of the cellular and humoral immune systems, allowing easier bacterial translocation from the intestine to the systemic circulation via the portal vein. Sepsis can often be seen in these patients; however, approximately 10 % of patients show negative results with the standard culture period (3-4 days) and their pathogens remain undiagnosed. Here we report the first case of a patient with liver cirrhosis diagnosed with bacteremia due to Helicobacter cinaedi after gastrointestinal symptoms and review 62 cases of H.

Image-Guided Hydrodynamic Gene Delivery: Current Status and Future Directions.

Hydrodynamics-based delivery has been used as an experimental tool to express transgene in small animals. This in vivo gene transfer method is useful for functional analysis of genetic elements, therapeutic effect of oligonucleotides, and cancer cells to establish the metastatic cancer animal model for experimental research. Recent progress in the development of image-guided procedure for hydrodynamics-based gene delivery in large animals directly supports the clinical applicability of this technique.

Pacing lead-induced granuloma in the atrium: a foreign body reaction to polyurethane.

We described a case of an 82-year-old male who presented with a granuloma entrapping the polyurethane-coated pacing lead at the site of contact on the atrium. He had been paced for 8 years without symptoms or signs suggestive of an allergic reaction to the pacemaker system and died from thrombosis of the superior mesenteric artery and heart failure. A histological examination of the nodule showed an incidental granuloma with multinucleated giant cells.