The Annals of thoracic surgery 107(6) 1656-1662 Jan 2019
[BACKGROUND] Air leakage still remains a major problem in lung resection despite the introduction of surgical sealants. We have developed a novel sealant based on hydrophobically modified Alaska pollock-derived gelatin (ApGltn), which showed high ...
The Journal of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery 32(6) 753-757 2018
<p>The patient was a 43-year-old woman who had undergone unilateral ovariectomy for a right ovarian granulosa cell tumor two years previously. Follow-up CT revealed a well-circumscribed and homogenous mediastinal tumor, of 21×14×26 mm. The tumor w...
Journal of artificial organs : the official journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Organs 22(1) 44-52 Oct 2018
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 31(4) 549-553 2017
<p>A 19-year-old man presented at a nearby hospital with right chest pain and dyspnea. He was diagnosed with right spontaneous pneumothorax and treated with pleural drainage. However, the pneumothorax did not improve, and he was transferred to our...
