PURPOSE: Patients with acute febrile illness may experience different degrees of chills. To
evaluate the different degrees of chills in predicting risk of bacteremia in patients with acute …

Nephrotic syndrome (NS) may be complicated by thromboembolism, which occasionally
manifests as stroke. Although the optimal, standardized approach to the prophylaxis and …

Purpose To evaluate the efficacy of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for early failing
hemodialysis arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) and predictors of secondary functional patency (FP…

Background/Aims: Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) may be beneficial for clinical
remission during conventional therapy with tonsillectomy and steroid pulse (TSP) for active IgA …

Background: Tranexamic acid is frequently reported to reduce bleeding-related complications
in major surgery and trauma. We aimed to investigate whether tranexamic acid reduced …

A 30-year-old previously healthy Japanese woman presented with tachycardia, exophthalmos
(Picture 1), diffuse painless goiter (Picture 2) and well-demarcated palmar vitiligo that had …

A 37-year-old man diagnosed with minimal change nephrotic syndrome at the age of 17,
was admitted to hospital with leg pain. He had relapsed nephrotic syndrome and …

A 64-year-old man presented to our hospital because of dyspnoea. Twenty years ago, he
had started peritoneal dialysis (PD) for chronic kidney disease. He had been diagnosed with …

… 2 , Hitoshi Miyasato …

Objective: Many factors including obesity were reported as risk factors for development and
progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, there is a possibility that the effects …