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Open AccessMultidisciplinary management of locally recurrent rectal cancer with carbon ion radiotherapy followed by prophylactic removal of the irradiated bowel: a case report
Locally recurrent rectal cancer (LRRC) involving the upper sacrum is typically incurable, and palliative treatment is the only option for most patients, resulting in a poor prognosis and reduced quality of lif...
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Analysis of Residual Stresses During Heat Treatment of Large Forged Shafts Considering Transformation Plasticity and Creep Deformation
The long cooling time during heat treatment of a large forging due to mass effect leads to the creep deformation at not only high temperature but also transformation temperature ranges. Therefore, both the tra...
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Plasma filtration with dialysis (plasma diafiltration) in critically ill patients with acute liver failure
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Ferromagnetic NiMnGa and CoNiGa Shape Memory Alloy Films
This paper reports results on Heusler-type NiMnGa and CoNiGa ferromagnetic shape memory alloy films deposited by magnetron sputtering and pulsed laser deposition respectively, on silicon cantilever-type substr...
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Autotaxin (NPP-2) in the brain: cell type-specific expression and regulation during development and after neurotrauma
Autotaxin is a secreted cell motility-stimulating exo-phosphodiesterase with lysophospholipase D activity that generates bioactive lysophosphatidic acid. Lysophosphatidic acid has been implicated in various ne...
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Difference between hematological malignancy and Solid tumor research articles published in four major medical journals
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Guillain–Barre syndrome associated with rapid immune reconstitution following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
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Comparison between reduced intensity and conventional myeloablative allogeneic stem-cell transplantation in patients with hematologic malignancies aged between 50 and 59 years
To evaluate the efficacy of reduced-intensity stem-cell transplantation (RIST), we retrospectively compared outcomes of 207 consecutive Japanese patients aged between 50 and 59 years with hematologic malignanc...
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Intestinal thrombotic microangiopathy following reduced-intensity umbilical cord blood transplantation
Thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) is a significant complication after hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT); however, there is little information on it following reduced-intensity cord blood transplant...
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Reduced-intensity hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for malignant lymphoma: a retrospective survey of 112 adult patients in Japan
We conducted a nation-wide survey of 112 adult Japanese patients who underwent reduced-intensity stem cell transplantation (RIST) from 1999 to 2002. Underlying diseases included indolent (n=45), aggressive (n=58)...
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Hepatofugal portal flow due to acute cellular rejection
We describe a case of living donor liver transplantation with hepatofugal portal flow caused by acute cellular rejection. The reversed portal flow was corrected by splenectomy and ligation of the residual coll...
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Optimal initial dose of oral cyclosporine in relation to its toxicities for graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis following reduced-intensity stem cell transplantation in Japanese patients
Since the introduction of reduced-intensity stem-cell transplantation (RIST), allogeneic stem-cell transplantation has become available for elderly patients. While pharmacokinetics of cyclosporine might differ...
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Graft-versus-host disease of the kidney after rapid tapering of cyclosporin following reduced intensity hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
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Value of surveillance blood culture for early diagnosis of occult bacteremia in patients on corticosteroid therapy following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Bloodstream infection (BSI) is a significant complication following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT). Corticosteroids mask inflammatory responses, delaying the initiation of antibi...
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Reduced-intensity stem-cell transplantation for adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a retrospective study of 33 patients
Efficacy of reduced-intensity stem-cell transplantation (RIST) for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) was investigated in 33 patients (median age, 55 years). RIST sources comprised 20 HLA-identical related don...
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Hyperacute GVHD and emergence of peripheral CD3+CD56+ T cells and activated natural killer cells are useful markers for early diagnosis of post-transplant hemophagocytic syndrome
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Sinus bradycardia associated with cyclosporine following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
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Regimen-related toxicity following reduced-intensity stem-cell transplantation (RIST): comparison between Seattle criteria and National Cancer Center Common Toxicity Criteria (NCI-CTC) version 2.0
Acute regimen-related toxicity (RRT) is minimal in reduced-intensity stem-cell transplantation (RIST). However, the Seattle RRT grading (Bearman et al), developed in the context of conventional-intensity transpla...
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Prediction of hepatic artery thrombosis by protocol Doppler ultrasonography in pediatric living donor liver transplantation
Hepatic arterial thrombosis (HAT) after liver transplantation is a life-threatening event. Previous reports have suggested that the resistive index (RI) of the hepatic artery predicts HAT. Doppler ultrasonog...
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Visual disturbance due to retinal edema as a complication of imatinib