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著者 Yamamoto, Koichiro| Hagiya, Hideharu| Maki, Jota| Okahara, Shuji| Hasegawa, Kou| Otsuka, Fumio|
キーワード covid-19 cytokine storm pneumonia pregnancy steroids
発行日 2021-08-23
出版物タイトル Cureus
巻 13巻
号 8号
出版者 Cureus Inc
開始ページ e17398
ISSN 2168-8184
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
OAI-PMH Set 岡山大学
著作権者 © 2021 Yamamoto et al.
論文のバージョン publisher
DOI 10.7759/cureus.17398
Web of Science KeyUT 000688329400025
関連URL isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17398
フルテキストURL fulltext20210902-1.pdf
著者 Sato, Kazuhiro| Mascher, Martin| Himmelbach, Axel| Haberer, Georg| Spannagl, Manuel| Stein, Nils|
キーワード genome assembly Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum OUH602 pseudomolecules wild barley
備考 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.|
発行日 2021-7-13
出版物タイトル G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics
出版者 Oxford University Press (OUP)
開始ページ jkab244
ISSN 2160-1836
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
OAI-PMH Set 岡山大学
著作権者 (C) The Author(s) 2021.
論文のバージョン publisher
DOI 10.1093/g3journal/jkab244
関連URL isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab244
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著者 Takemoto, Rika| Uchida, Haruhito A.| Toda, Hironobu| Okada, Ken| Otsuka, Fumio| Ito, Hiroshi| Wada, Jun|
キーワード augmentation index augmentation pressure peripheral arterial disease total vascular resistance
発行日 2021-08-13
出版物タイトル Medicine
巻 100巻
号 32号
出版者 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
開始ページ e26931
ISSN 0025-7974
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
OAI-PMH Set 岡山大学
著作権者 © 2021 the Author(s).
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PubMed ID 34397939
DOI 10.1097/MD.0000000000026931
Web of Science KeyUT 000683492600068
関連URL isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000026931
フルテキストURL fulltext20210818-1.pdf
著者 Hagiya, Hideharu| Fujita, Koji| Kamiyama, Shinya| Ocho, Kazuki| Yamada, Haruto| Otsuka, Fumio|
キーワード antimicrobial resistance certified nurses in infection control infection prevention and control infectious disease doctors japan nosocomial infections surveillance
発行日 2021-07-26
出版物タイトル Cureus
巻 13巻
号 7号
出版者 Cureus Inc.
開始ページ e16643
ISSN 2168-8184
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
OAI-PMH Set 岡山大学
著作権者 © Copyright 2021 Hagiya et al.
論文のバージョン publisher
DOI 10.7759/cureus.16643
Web of Science KeyUT 000680008700016
関連URL isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16643
フルテキストURL fulltext.pdf
著者 Habu, Hiroshi| Takao, Soshi| Fujimoto, Ryohei| Naito, Hiromichi| Nakao, Atsunori| Yorifuji, Takashi|
キーワード COVID-19 epidemiology emergency medical dispatch suicide
発行日 2021-07-17
出版物タイトル Journal of Epidemiology
巻 31巻
号 9号
出版者 Japan Epidemiological Assoc.
開始ページ 511
終了ページ 517
ISSN 0917-5040
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
OAI-PMH Set 岡山大学
著作権者 © 2021 Hiroshi Habu et al.
論文のバージョン publisher
PubMed ID 34176855
DOI 10.2188/jea.JE20210066
Web of Science KeyUT 000680719500003
関連URL isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20210066
著者 Akao, Yohei| Yamauchi, Toshihiro|
発行日 2016-12
出版物タイトル 2016 International Conference on Information Science and Security (ICISS)
資料タイプ 会議発表論文
フルテキストURL fulltext20210726-1.pdf
著者 Liu, Shihui| Matsuo, Toshihiko| Miyaji, Mary| Hosoya, Osamu|
キーワード NK-4 retina apoptosis RNA-seq photoreceptor retinitis pigmentosa antioxidant metabolism
発行日 2021-7-19
出版物タイトル Pharmaceuticals
巻 14巻
号 7号
出版者 MDPI AG
開始ページ 694
ISSN 1424-8247
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
OAI-PMH Set 岡山大学
著作権者 © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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DOI 10.3390/ph14070694
関連URL isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.3390/ph14070694
フルテキストURL fulltext20210721-2.pdf figure20210721-2.pdf
著者 Watari, Shogo| Araki, Motoo| Wada, Koichiro| Yoshinaga, Kasumi| Maruyama, Yuki| Mitsui, Yosuke| Sadahira, Takuya| Kubota, Risa| Nishimura, Shingo| Kobayashi, Yasuyuki| Takeuchi, Hidemi| Tanabe, Katsuyuki| Kitagawa, Masashi| Morinaga, Hiroshi| Kitamura, Shinji| Sugiyama, Hitoshi| Wada, Jun| Watanabe, Masami| Watanabe, Toyohiko| Nasu, Yasutomo|
備考 © 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This is the accepted manuscript version. The formal published version is available at [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2021.03.043] . |
発行日 2021-4-28
出版物タイトル Transplantation Proceedings
巻 53巻
号 5号
出版者 Elsevier BV
開始ページ 1494
終了ページ 1500
ISSN 0041-1345
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
OAI-PMH Set 岡山大学
論文のバージョン author
PubMed ID 33931247
DOI 10.1016/j.transproceed.2021.03.043
Web of Science KeyUT 000668604400017
関連URL isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2021.03.043
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著者 Tahjib-Ul-Arif, Md.| Zahan, Mst, Ishrat| Karim, Md. Masudul| Imran, Shahin| Hunter, Charles T.| Islam, Md. Saiful| Mia, Md. Ashik| Hannan, Md. Abdul| Rhaman, Mohammad Saidur| Hossain, Md. Afzal| Brestic, Marian| Skalicky, Milan| Murata, Yoshiyuki|
キーワード citrate heavy metal stress drought stress antioxidant reactive oxygen species salinity aluminum toxicity
発行日 2021-07-05
出版物タイトル International Journal of Molecular Sciences
巻 22巻
号 13号
出版者 MDPI
開始ページ 7235
ISSN 1422-0067
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
OAI-PMH Set 岡山大学
著作権者 © 2021 by the authors.
論文のバージョン publisher
DOI 10.3390/ijms22137235
Web of Science KeyUT 000671283500001
関連URL isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22137235
JaLCDOI 10.18926/OER/62263
タイトル(別表記) Die Debatte über Nationalitätenpolitik im österreichischen Kaiserreich
フルテキストURL oer253_3_019_033.pdf
著者 太田 仁樹|
出版物タイトル 岡山大学経済学会雑誌
発行日 2021-07-12
巻 53巻
号 1号
開始ページ 19
終了ページ 33
ISSN 2433-4146
言語 日本語
著作権者 Copyright © 2021 岡山大学経済学会
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フルテキストURL fulltext20210706-2.pdf
著者 Kidani, Naoya| Sugiu, Kenji| Terasaka, Kaoru| Nakashima, Hiroyuki| Tokunaga, Koji| Kobayashi, Kazuki| Kambara, Hirokazu| Hishikawa, Tomohito| Hiramatsu, Masafumi| Date, Isao|
備考 This version of the article has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-021-04885-1|
発行日 2021-6-19
出版物タイトル Acta Neurochirurgica
巻 164巻
号 2号
出版者 Springer Science and Business Media LLC
開始ページ 517
終了ページ 523
ISSN 0001-6268
NCID AA0050885X
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
OAI-PMH Set 岡山大学
論文のバージョン author
PubMed ID 34146152
DOI 10.1007/s00701-021-04885-1
Web of Science KeyUT 000663495400001
関連URL isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-021-04885-1
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/62235
フルテキストURL 75_3_385.pdf
著者 Okita, Atsushi| Fujimura, Masaki| Sato, Isao| Chino, Yoshihide| Yuba, Takafumi| Mizutani, Makoto| Tabata, Tomotake| Iida, Minoru| Kumano, Kimitsuka|
Amo Type Case Report
備考 We report an extremely rare case of a centenarian with acute appendicitis that was successfully managed via emergent surgery. A 109-year-old woman was referred to Daiichi Towakai Hospital with a high fever and nausea. She presented with peritoneal irritation, and computed tomography showed a swollen appendix with intraluminal fecolith. She was diagnosed with acute appendicitis and underwent appendectomy, which was performed via an open approach under spinal anesthesia. The patient’s postoperative course was uneventful. As for treatment planning for centenarians, comprehensive and exhaustive discussions with the patient and family members should be encouraged under the principals of narrative medicine.|
出版物タイトル Acta Medica Okayama
発行日 2021-06
巻 75巻
号 3号
出版者 Okayama University Medical School
開始ページ 385
終了ページ 389
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
著作権者 CopyrightⒸ 2021 by Okayama University Medical School
論文のバージョン publisher
査読 有り
PubMed ID 34176944
Web of Science KeyUT 000667147700015
NAID 120007089820
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/62234
フルテキストURL 75_3_381.pdf
著者 Yamamoto, Ken-ichi| Oshiki, Toshiyuki| Kagawa, Hiroko| Namba, Masayoshi| Sakaguchi, Masakiyo|
抄録 The worldwide microplastic pollution in our environment is a matter of great concern. Harmful effects of plastics have been reported in various types of organisms including murine animals. We examined the presence of microplastics in four types of shellfish purchased from fish markets in Okayama, Japan and served to the public: short-neck clam (Ruditapes philippinarum, asari in Japanese), hard-shell clam (Meretrix lusoria, hamaguri), brackishwater clam (Cyrenidae, shijimi), and oyster (Crassostrea gigas, kaki). Our analyses demonstrated that approx. 3 pieces of microplastics were present per single shellfish, based on the division of the total number of pieces of microplastic obtained from all 4 types of shellfish by the total number of shellfish examined. Since health problems in humans due to microplastics have not yet been confirmed, further examinations of the effects of ingested microplastics are needed.
キーワード microplastics, shellfish Japan health effect pollution
Amo Type Short Communication
出版物タイトル Acta Medica Okayama
発行日 2021-06
巻 75巻
号 3号
出版者 Okayama University Medical School
開始ページ 381
終了ページ 384
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
著作権者 CopyrightⒸ 2021 by Okayama University Medical School
論文のバージョン publisher
査読 有り
PubMed ID 34176943
Web of Science KeyUT 000667147700014
NAID 120007089831
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/62233
フルテキストURL 75_3_373.pdf
著者 Yaylali, Guzin F.| Dedeoglu, Ozen | Topsakal, Senay| Herek, Duygu| Senol, Hande|
抄録 Osteocalcin (OC) is inversely related to body fat distribution and fasting glucose levels. We sought to observe the effect of OC on fat distribution and subclinical atherosclerosis as measured by carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) in premenopausal obese women. In this prospective observational study, totally, 73 premenopausal obese women (aged 17-55 years) and 53 healthy women (aged 20-50 years) with normal weight were included as controls. Anthropometric measurements, total fat and fat ratio, insulin, fasting blood glucose, and OC levels were estimated. Ultrasonography was used to assess fat distribution, and fat thickness was measured in 4 regions. Subcutaneous fat (SCF), visceral fat (VF), and preperitoneal fat (PPF) thicknesses were considerably higher in obese subjects (p<0.01) than healthy controls, while OC levels were significantly lower. No correlation was observed between OC levels and SCF, VF, or PPF. In a multiple regression analysis, OC was significantly positively associated with SCF (p=0.04, Beta=0.284). No associations were observed between OC levels and VF, PPF, or CIMT. A significant association was observed between parathyroid hormone (PTH) and VF (p=0.021, Beta=0.284), and vitamin D levels were inversely associated with VF (p=0.002, r=−0.366). OC levels were lower in premenopausal obese women than normal-weight healthy controls, but OC exhibited no correlation with VF or PPF, and only a weak positive association with SCF. Additionally, VF was positively correlated with PTH and inversely correlated with vitamin D. These results suggest that OC may be an early indicator of lipid accumulation in te subcutaneous area and development of atherosclerosis.
キーワード body fat composition carotid intima-media thickness obesity osteocalcin premenopausal women
Amo Type Original Article
出版物タイトル Acta Medica Okayama
発行日 2021-06
巻 75巻
号 3号
出版者 Okayama University Medical School
開始ページ 373
終了ページ 379
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
著作権者 CopyrightⒸ 2021 by Okayama University Medical School
論文のバージョン publisher
査読 有り
PubMed ID 34176942
Web of Science KeyUT 000667147700013
NAID 120007089830
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/62231
フルテキストURL 75_3_357.pdf
著者 Takabatake, Daisuke| Kajiwara, Yukiko| Ohtani, Shoichiro| Suzuki, Yoko| Yamamoto, Mari| Kubo, Shinichiro| Ikeda, Masahiko| Takahashi, Mina| Hara, Fumikata| Aogi, Kenjiro| Ohsumi, Shozo| Ogasawara, Yutaka| Nishiyama, Yoshitaka| Hikino, Hajime| Matsuoka, Kinya| Shien, Tadahiko| Taira, Naruto| Doihara, Hiroyoshi|
抄録 Perioperative dose-dense chemotherapy (DDCT) with pegfilgrastim (Peg) prophylaxis is a standard treatment for high-risk breast cancer. We explored the optimal timing of administration of 3.6 mg Peg, the dose approved in Japan. In the phase II feasibility study of DDCT (adriamycin+cyclophosphamide or epirubicin+cyclophosphamide followed by paclitaxel) for breast cancer, we investigated the feasibility, safety, neutrophil transition, and optimal timing of Peg treatment by administering Peg at days 2, 3, and 4 post-chemotherapy (P2, P3, and P4 groups, respectively). Among the 52 women enrolled, 13 were aged > 60 years. The anthracycline sequence was administered to P2 (n=33), P3 (n=5), and P4 (n=14) patients, and the taxane sequence to P2 (n=38) and P3 (n=6) patients. Both sequences showed no interaction between Peg administration timing and treatment discontinuation, treatment delay, or dose reduction. However, the relative dose intensity (RDI) was significantly different among the groups. The neutrophil count transition differed significantly among the groups receiving the anthracycline sequence. However, the neutrophil count remained in the appropriate range for both sequences in the P2 group. The timing of Peg administration did not substantially affect the feasibility or safety of DDCT. Postoperative day 2 might be the optimal timing for DDCT.
キーワード dose-dense chemotherapy breast cancer pegfilgrastim
Amo Type Original Article
出版物タイトル Acta Medica Okayama
発行日 2021-06
巻 75巻
号 3号
出版者 Okayama University Medical School
開始ページ 357
終了ページ 362
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
著作権者 CopyrightⒸ 2021 by Okayama University Medical School
論文のバージョン publisher
査読 有り
PubMed ID 34176940
Web of Science KeyUT 000667147700011
NAID 120007089828
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/62228
フルテキストURL 75_3_335.pdf
著者 Chikuie, Nobuyuki| Hamamoto, Takao| Ueda, Tsutomu| Taruya, Takayuki| Kono, Takashi| Furuie, Hiromi| Ishino, Takashi| Takeno, Sachio|
抄録 Recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (R/MHNSCC) has a poor prognosis. Although nivolumab is approved in Japan for treating R/MHNSCC, the response rate is low. Therefore, identifying pretreatment prognostic factors is necessary. This study assessed the utility of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and Glasgow Prognostic Score (GPS) as biomarkers of response to nivolumab. We retrospectively collected the data of 56 R/MHNSCC patients treated with nivolumab between May 2017 and December 2019. The Kaplan–Meier method and log-rank test were used to estimate overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS), and multivariate Cox hazard regression analysis was used to identify independent predictors of survival. Patients with a low pretreatment NLR had prolonged OS, and patients with a low pretreatment GPS had increased OS and PFS. A performance score (PS) of 0-1, development of immune-related adverse events, and GPS of 0-1 were significantly associated with OS in multivariate analysis. In summary, baseline pretreatment NLR and GPS are independently associated with OS in R/MHNSCC patients treated with nivolumab. Administration of nivolumab while maintaining the PS reflects a immune status of the host and leads to a good OS.
キーワード neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio nivolumab Glasgow Prognostic Score recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (R/MHNSCC)
Amo Type Original Article
出版物タイトル Acta Medica Okayama
発行日 2021-06
巻 75巻
号 3号
出版者 Okayama University Medical School
開始ページ 335
終了ページ 343
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
著作権者 CopyrightⒸ 2021 by Okayama University Medical School
論文のバージョン publisher
査読 有り
PubMed ID 34176937
Web of Science KeyUT 000667147700008
NAID 120007089825
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/62227
フルテキストURL 75_3_323.pdf
著者 Furutani, Michiyo| Yu, Zhou| Nakatsuka, Mikiya|
抄録 Gender expression is important for transgender women to improve their social passing as women. Herein, a questionnaire about the status of gender expression and support needs was distributed to 54 transgender women aged 17-71 in Japan. Most of the respondents noted that they had found it relatively difficult to handle physical changes and weight gain due to hormone treatment. They also found it difficult to enact and sustain practices such as a feminine use of voice and to use women-only services, whereas practicing and continuing with routine skin and hair care and feminine mannerisms were relatively easy for them. In the questionnaire regarding the support for gender transitioning, many items showed only a small percentage of the transgender women had received the support that they were looking for, and most of their needs for support were not addressed. Some of the factors that increased the respondents’ needs and achievement of gender expression as women included estrogen treatment, sex reassignment surgery, and living as a woman; these aspects met their support needs as well. Gender support professionals need to coordinate and collaborate with specialists in areas such as nutritional guidance and voice training to enable transgender women to improve the extent to which they can socially ‘pass’ as women.
キーワード transgender gender expression social passing as a woman real life experience gender transition
Amo Type Original Article
出版物タイトル Acta Medica Okayama
発行日 2021-06
巻 75巻
号 3号
出版者 Okayama University Medical School
開始ページ 323
終了ページ 334
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
著作権者 CopyrightⒸ 2021 by Okayama University Medical School
論文のバージョン publisher
査読 有り
PubMed ID 34176936
Web of Science KeyUT 000667147700007
NAID 120007089824
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/62225
フルテキストURL 75_3_307.pdf
著者 Ishizaka, Hinata| Kuroda, Masahiro| Tekiki, Nouha| Khasawneh, Abdullah| Barham, Majd| Hamada, Kentaro| Konishi, Kohei| Sugimoto, Kohei| Katsui, Kuniaki| Sugiyama, Soichi| Watanabe, Kenta| Yoshio, Kotaro | Katayama, Norihisa| Ogata, Takeshi| Ihara, Hiroki| Oita, Masataka| Kanazawa, Susumu| Asaumi, Junichi|
抄録 Reports on irradiation dose distribution in breast cancer radiotherapy with sufficient sample size are limited in Asian patients. Elucidating dose distribution in Asian patients is particularly important as their breast volume differs compared to patients in Europe and North America. Here, we examined dose distribution in the irradiation field relative to breast volume for three irradiation methods historically used in our facility. We investigated the influence of breast volume on each irradiation method for Asian women. A total of 573 women with early-stage breast cancer were treated with breast-conserving surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy. Three methods were compared: wedge (W), field-in-field (FIF), and wedge-field-in-field (W-FIF). In patients with small breast volume, FIF decreased low- and high-dose areas within the planning target volume, and increased optimal dose area more than W. In patients with medium and large breast volumes, FIF decreased high-dose area more than W. The absolute values of correlation coefficients of breast volume to low-, optimal-, and high-dose areas and mean dose were significantly lower in FIF than in W. The correlation coefficients of V107% were 0.00 and 0.28 for FIF and W, respectively. FIF is an excellent irradiation method that is less affected by breast volume than W in Asian breast cancer patients.
キーワード breast cancer radiotherapy dose distribution irradiation method breast volume
Amo Type Original Article
出版物タイトル Acta Medica Okayama
発行日 2021-06
巻 75巻
号 3号
出版者 Okayama University Medical School
開始ページ 307
終了ページ 314
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
著作権者 CopyrightⒸ 2021 by Okayama University Medical School
論文のバージョン publisher
査読 有り
PubMed ID 34176934
Web of Science KeyUT 000667147700006
NAID 120007089838
フルテキストURL fulltext20210623-2.pdf figure20210623-2.pdf
著者 Otsuka, Yuki| Hagiya, Hideharu| Nakano, Yasuhiro| Omura, Daisuke| Hasegawa, Kou| Yamada, Haruto| Iio, Koji| Honda, Tomoyuki| Otsuka, Fumio|
キーワード Human coronavirus Coronavirus disease 2019 Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
備考 © 2021 Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. This is the accepted manuscript version. The formal published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiac.2021.05.001|
発行日 2021-7
出版物タイトル Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
巻 27巻
号 7号
出版者 Elsevier BV
開始ページ 1126
終了ページ 1128
ISSN 1341-321X
NCID AA11057978
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
OAI-PMH Set 岡山大学
著作権者 © 2021 Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases.
論文のバージョン author
PubMed ID 33994323
DOI 10.1016/j.jiac.2021.05.001
Web of Science KeyUT 000656910200036
関連URL isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiac.2021.05.001
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/62221
フルテキストURL 75_3_299.pdf
著者 Araki, Jo| Oka, Kosuke| Yamamoto, Koichiro| Hanayama, Yoshihisa | Tokumasu, Kazuki| Hagiya, Hideharu| Ogawa, Hiroko| Itoshima, Koichi| Otsuka, Fumio|
抄録 Various laboratory markers of inflammation are utilized in general practice, but their clinical diagnostic significance is often ambiguous. In the present study, we determined the clinical significance of the examination of serum levels of procalcitonin (PCT) by comparing the PCT levels with the levels of other inflammatory markers, based on a retrospective review of 332 PCT-positive patients, including cases of bacterial infection (20.5%), non-specific inflammation (20.8%), neoplasm (9.9%), connective tissue diseases (8.4%), and non-bacterial infection (7.2%), were analyzed. The serum PCT level was highest in the bacterial infection group (1.94 ng/ml) followed by the non-specific inflammatory group (0.58 ng/ml) and neoplastic diseases group (0.34 ng/ml). The serum PCT level was positively correlated with serum levels of C-reactive protein (rho=0.62), soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2R; rho=0.69), and ferritin, the plasma level of D-dimer, and white blood cell count, and negatively correlated with the serum albumin level (rho=−0.52), hemoglobin concentration, and platelet count. The serum PCT level showed a stronger positive correlation with the serum sIL-2R level than the other biomarkers. The results suggest that an increased PCT level may indicate not only an infectious state but also a non-bacterial inflammatory condition in the diagnostic process in general practice.
キーワード bacterial infection inflammation malignant lymphoma procalcitonin soluble interleukin-2 receptor
Amo Type Original Article
出版物タイトル Acta Medica Okayama
発行日 2021-06
巻 75巻
号 3号
出版者 Okayama University Medical School
開始ページ 299
終了ページ 306
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
資料タイプ 学術雑誌論文
言語 英語
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論文のバージョン publisher
査読 有り
PubMed ID 34176933
Web of Science KeyUT 000667147700005
NAID 120007089836