Journal of Artificial Organs 22(1) 44-52 Mar 2019 [Refereed]
Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) recovery is complicated by lung inflammation from bone marrow (BM)-derived polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) and monocytes (MO). Although Sivelestat reduces inflammatory mediators and Rolipram inhibits PMN and MO act...
The Journal of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery 33(4) 476-481 2019
<p>A 57-year-old man presented with a 36-mm mass lesion in the anterior mediastinum detected by chest computed tomography during follow-up for a thoracic aortic aneurysm. Invasive thymoma was suspected and extended thymectomy was performed through...
[BACKGROUND] Patients with liver metastasis from non-small lung cancer (NSCLC) usually have multiple metastases at other sites and thus rarely undergo liver surgery. We present a case involving successful resection of rapidly growing liver metasta...
Although alteration of DNA methylation in advanced cancer has been extensively investigated, few data for early-stage lung adenocarcinoma are available. Here, we compared DNA methylation profiles between adenocarcinoma (AIS) and early invasive ad...
