Internal MedicinePub Date : 2025-04-01Epub Date: 2024-09-04DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.4079-24
Lisa Yamasaki, Yutaro Akiyama, Keigo Ueno, Yasutaka Hoshino, Minoru Nagi, Nobuko Nakayama, Masahiro Abe, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Gatanaga, Koji Watanabe
{"title":"Progressive Severe Hemophagocytic Syndrome due to Disseminated Histoplasmosis in a Patient with HIV-1 Infection.","authors":"Lisa Yamasaki, Yutaro Akiyama, Keigo Ueno, Yasutaka Hoshino, Minoru Nagi, Nobuko Nakayama, Masahiro Abe, Yoshitsugu Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Gatanaga, Koji Watanabe","doi":"10.2169/internalmedicine.4079-24","DOIUrl":"10.2169/internalmedicine.4079-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Histoplasmosis is caused by Histoplasma capsulatum and is prevalent in areas of the world where H. capsulatum is endemic. We herein report a patient diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) who developed histoplasmosis from a non-H. capsulatum endemic area who experienced severe hemophagocytic syndrome due to a delayed diagnosis. The patient's symptoms emerged four years after residing in regions with a high histoplasmosis prevalence. The unrestricted administration of antifungal medication for oral candidiasis delayed the diagnosis because it improved the patient's condition. This case underscores the importance of prudent antifungal drug use in undiagnosed disseminated conditions and evaluating the travel history going back several years to facilitate a diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":13719,"journal":{"name":"Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1113-1118"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142132665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thoracic Angiosarcoma Arising from Chronic Tuberculous Pyothorax.","authors":"Takayuki Horii, Jun Sasaki, Hidenobu Ishii, Misa Sudou, Reiko Takaki, Takaaki Tokito, Koichi Azuma, Tomoaki Hoshino","doi":"10.2169/internalmedicine.4088-24","DOIUrl":"10.2169/internalmedicine.4088-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Angiosarcoma is a rare malignancy that can arise from chronic pyothorax. We herein report a 75-year-old Japanese man with a history of tuberculosis who presented with left-sided chest pain that had persisted for 4 months. Chest computed tomography revealed an encapsulated left-sided pleural effusion with chest wall invasion, and histopathology confirmed angiosarcoma arising from a chronic tuberculous pyothorax. Chemotherapy with paclitaxel (80 mg/m<sup>2</sup> weekly) was ineffective and was discontinued after 3 months. Our findings emphasize that physicians should inform patients with chronic tuberculous pyothorax about malignant complications for which chest pain is the initial symptom, in addition to highlighting the need for careful follow-up.</p>","PeriodicalId":13719,"journal":{"name":"Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1085-1088"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142132670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Association between the Cardiothoracic Ratio on Chest X-rays and the Respiratory Function in Patients with Interstitial Lung Diseases: a Cross-sectional Study.","authors":"Akihiko Hagiwara, Izumi Yamatani, Ryohei Kudoh, Kazufumi Hiramatsu, Jun-Ichi Kadota, Kosaku Komiya","doi":"10.2169/internalmedicine.4104-24","DOIUrl":"10.2169/internalmedicine.4104-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Objective Patients with advanced interstitial lung disease (ILD) struggle to undergo spirometry to evaluate the respiratory function. The cardiothoracic ratio (CTR) on chest radiography can potentially reflect the lung volume; however, this has not yet been fully established. This study aimed to clarify the relationship between the CTR and the respiratory function in patients with interstitial lung diseases. Methods We reviewed 120 consecutive patients with idiopathic interstitial lung disease who were admitted to our department between April 2018 and March 2023 and who underwent chest radiography, spirometry, and echocardiography. A multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify the factors associated with the CTR. Correlations between the CTR and the respiratory or cardiac function were assessed using Pearson's correlation coefficient. Results A multiple linear regression analysis showed the percent vital capacity (β= -0.598, p<0.001), age (β=0.405, p<0.001), and female sex (β=0.177, p=0.047) to be independently associated with the CTR, whereas no relationship was observed between the left ventricular ejection fraction, body mass index, and smoking habits. The CTR was significantly negatively correlated with the vital capacity (r=-0.490, p<0.001). Conclusion An increased CTR might reflect a decreased vital capacity, but not a decreased cardiac function, in patients with interstitial lung diseases. Measuring the CTR can thus be beneficial for predicting progression in patients with ILD.</p>","PeriodicalId":13719,"journal":{"name":"Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1025-1030"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142092839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determinants of In-hospital Death in Non-ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction with Triple-vessel Disease.","authors":"Yuki Tokunaga, Kenichi Sakakura, Hiroyuki Jinnouchi, Yousuke Taniguchi, Kei Yamamoto, Takunori Tsukui, Masashi Hatori, Taku Kasahara, Shun Ishibashi, Yusuke Watanabe, Masaru Seguchi, Hideo Fujita","doi":"10.2169/internalmedicine.3949-24","DOIUrl":"10.2169/internalmedicine.3949-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Objective Triple-vessel disease (TVD) is a well-established prognostic factor for patients with acute myocardial infarction. However, there is a paucity of literature regarding the risk factors for in-hospital death in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and TVD. In this retrospective study, we examined the determinants of in-hospital death in patients with NSTEMI and TVD who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for culprit lesions. Methods The primary objective of this study was to identify the factors associated with in-hospital death using a multivariate analysis. We included 253 patients with NSTEMI and TVD and divided them into a survivor group (n=239) and an in-hospital death group (n=14). Results Systolic blood pressure (SBP) at admission was significantly higher in the survivor group than in the in-hospital death group. The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was also higher in the survivor group than in the in-hospital death group. In the multivariate logistic regression analysis, in-hospital death was inversely associated with the SBP at admission [odds ratio (OR) 0.984, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.970-0.999, p<0.035] and eGFR (OR 0.966, 95% CI 0.939-0.994, p=0.019) and was associated with cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) before PCI (OR 8.448, 95% CI 1.863-38.309, p=0.006). Conclusion In-hospital death was associated with CPA before PCI and inversely associated with the SBP at admission and eGFR in patients with NSTEMI and TVD who underwent PCI for the culprit lesion. It may be important to recognize these high-risk features in order to improve the clinical outcomes of patients with NSTEMI and TVD.</p>","PeriodicalId":13719,"journal":{"name":"Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"993-999"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142132654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long-term Major Adverse Cardiac Event Prediction by Computed Tomography-derived Plaque Measures and Clinical Parameters Using Machine Learning.","authors":"Shinichi Wada, Makino Sakuraba, Michikazu Nakai, Takayuki Suzuki, Yoshihiro Miyamoto, Teruo Noguchi, Yoshitaka Iwanaga","doi":"10.2169/internalmedicine.3566-24","DOIUrl":"10.2169/internalmedicine.3566-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Objective The present study evaluated the usefulness of machine learning (ML) models with the coronary computed tomography imaging and clinical parameters for predicting major adverse cardiac events (MACEs). Methods The Nationwide Gender-specific Atherosclerosis Determinants Estimation and Ischemic Cardiovascular Disease Prospective Cohort study (NADESICO) of 1,187 patients with suspected coronary artery disease 50-74 years old was used to build a MACE prediction model. The ML random forest (RF) model was compared with a logistic regression analysis. The performance of the ML model was evaluated using the area under the curve (AUC) with the 95% confidence interval (CI). Results Among 1,178 patients from the NADESICO dataset, MACEs occurred in 103 (8.7%) patients during a median follow-up of 4.4 years. The AUC of the RF model for MACE prediction was 0.781 (95% CI: 0.670-0.870), which was significantly higher than that of the conventional logistic regression model [AUC, 0.750 (95% CI: 0.651-0.839)]. The important features in the RF model were coronary artery stenosis (CAS) at any site, CAS in the left anterior descending branch, HbA1c level, CAS in the right coronary artery, and sex. In the external validation cohort, the model accuracy of ensemble ML-RF models that were trained on and tuned using the NADESICO dataset was not similar [AUC: 0.635 (95% CI: 0.599-0.672)]. Conclusion The ML-RF model improved the long-term prediction of MACEs compared to the logistic regression model. However, the selected variables in the internal dataset were not highly predictive of the external dataset. Further investigations are required to validate the usefulness of this model.</p>","PeriodicalId":13719,"journal":{"name":"Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1001-1008"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142132663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First Reported Case of Pure Red Cell Aplasia Related to Sotorasib.","authors":"Katsuhiro Itogawa, Tatsuya Saito, Yuya Nakata, Hikari Amari, Hiroki Tahara, Nozomu Yoshino, Yuki Maeda, Motoko Nomura, Jun Shiihara, Yoshiaki Nagai, Hiromitsu Ohta, Yasuhiro Yamaguchi","doi":"10.2169/internalmedicine.3961-24","DOIUrl":"10.2169/internalmedicine.3961-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We herein report a 64-year-old man with KRAS<sup>G12C</sup>-mutated advanced lung adenocarcinoma previously treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). One month after starting second-line sotorasib treatment, the patient experienced a progressive decline in serum hemoglobin levels. Anemia was accompanied by markedly elevated serum erythropoietin levels and decreased reticulocyte levels. Bone marrow aspiration revealed pure red cell aplasia. No secondary causes other than medication use were identified. Suspected causative drugs were sotorasib and ICIs. Discontinuation of sotorasib for one week improved his anemia; therefore, the causative drug was identified as sotorasib.</p>","PeriodicalId":13719,"journal":{"name":"Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1089-1092"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142132659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three Cases of Subdural Hematoma with Transient Neurological Deficits: Importance of Sulcal Hyperintensity in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Fluid-attenuated Inversion Recovery Images.","authors":"Nobutaka Takahashi, Takayasu Mishima, Daito Nakamura, Shinsuke Fujioka, Yoshio Tsuboi","doi":"10.2169/internalmedicine.4001-24","DOIUrl":"10.2169/internalmedicine.4001-24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patient 1 (82 years old) had recurrent weakness and numbness in the left upper extremity, Patient 2 (71 years old) had transient dysarthria, and Patient 3 (70 years old) had transient apraxia of speech. Transient ischemic attack (TIA) was suspected; however, all three women had a history of head trauma before the symptom onset, and magnetic resonance imaging revealed subdural hematomas near the responsible lesions associated with sulcal hyperintensity (SHI) in the cerebral sulcus near the hematoma. Patients 1 and 2 improved spontaneously, whereas Patient 3 improved with antiseizure medication. Subdural hematomas associated with SHI may have transient focal neurological deficits that manifest through a mechanism unlike TIA.</p>","PeriodicalId":13719,"journal":{"name":"Internal Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1101-1106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142132671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}