Background Aspiration pneumonia is an urgent health concern with high mortality and long
hospitalization in industrialized and aging countries. However, there is no information about …

The chest X-ray film and computed tomography of a 62-year-old asymptomatic man showed
bilateral multiple nodules. Since bronchoalveolar lavage and transbronchial lung biopsy …

2. Discussion The patient was initially considered to have cancer of unknown primary location,
because no primary tumor was detected on CT scanning, except a small isolated GGO in …

Thromboembolism is a known vascular toxicity associated with tumor chemotherapy. The
combination of pemetrexed and carboplatin has exhibited significant antitumor activity, with …

We here describe the first example of a cancer of unknown primary (CUP) patient with
concomitant idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension who was treated with docetaxel …

METHODS The subjects enrolled into the present study were adult patients diagnosed with
influenza virus infection by influenza rapid diagnostic tests during the 2010-2011 season in …

According to the COPD guidelines (GOLD, JRS ando so on) COPD patients were prescribed
broncho-dilators and/or inhaled corticosteroid (ICS). But around 1/16 patients could not …

Tiotropium Respimat® is a newly developed device which delivered the drug with ease. In
this paper we9ve described the efficacy and patients9 satisfaction for two groups of patients, 1…

First choice of prescribed drug for the treatment of COPD is recommended Tiotropium in
Japanese Gideline for the treatment of COPD. Most of the patients improved symtoms and …

Advanced stage COPD patients show difficulty of moving due not only to air-flow limitaion but
also to pulmonary hypertension secondary cause of COPD itself. Pulmonary hypertension …