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{"title":"Ovarian Clear Cell Carcinoma and Rectal Adenocarcinoma Detected by Tubo-Ovarian Abscess: A Case Report.","authors":"Mariko Matsuno,&nbsp;Tomoko Kurita,&nbsp;Mami Shibahara,&nbsp;Yoko Aoyama,&nbsp;Kaori Hoshino,&nbsp;Kazuaki Nishimura,&nbsp;Hiroshi Harada,&nbsp;Taeko Ueda,&nbsp;Yusuke Matsuura,&nbsp;Kiyoshi Yoshino","doi":"10.7888/juoeh.45.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7888/juoeh.45.117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most cases of tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA) are due to transvaginal infection, while other internal diseases may also be associated with TOAs. We experienced a case of ovarian clear cell carcinoma and rectal carcinoma that was discovered to be a result of TOA. A 46-year-old woman was diagnosed with TOA and referred to our hospital. Laparoscopic abscess drainage was performed, and pathological findings confirmed the presence of ovarian clear cell carcinoma inside the abscess. The tumor marker carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was elevated, and rectal cancer was diagnosed by a gastrointestinal endoscopy. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) showed a left adnexal abscess with an air image inside, and penetration of the abscess wall and rectal cancer were observed. Histopathologically, there was an accumulation of neutrophils around the rectal tumor cells. We concluded that the rectal cancer had penetrated the existing ovarian tumor and formed TOA. Non-gynecological diseases may be associated with TOA. It is necessary to consider the possibility that other clinical diseases may be associated with the trigger of TOA.</p>","PeriodicalId":17570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of UOEH","volume":"45 2","pages":"117-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9559781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revisiting the Calculation for a Novel Measure of Average Lifespan Shortened: Real-World Examples From Cervical and Ovarian Cancers in Alberta, Canada, 2000 - 2020.","authors":"Truong-Minh Pham, Xiaoming Lu, Jingyu Bu, Devan Tchir, Mohammadreza Pakseresht, Maeve Wickham, Allison Scott, Xiaoyi Tian, Anthony Paul Vytautas Karosas, Angela Eckstrand, Bethany Kaposhi, Emily Walker, Lorraine Shack","doi":"10.7888/juoeh.45.217","DOIUrl":"10.7888/juoeh.45.217","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this technical note, we primarily demonstrate the computation of confidence limits for a novel measure of average lifespan shortened (ALSS). We identified women who had died from cervical and ovarian cancer between 2000 and 2020 from the Alberta cancer registry. Years of life lost (YLL) was calculated using the national life tables of Canada. We estimated the ALSS as a ratio of YLL in relation to the expected lifespan. We computed the confidence limits of the measure using various approaches, including the normal distribution, gamma distribution, and bootstrap method. The new ALSS measure shows a modest gain in lifespan of women, particularly women with ovarian cancer, over the study period.</p>","PeriodicalId":17570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of UOEH","volume":"45 4","pages":"217-220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138498733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of the Specific Features, and New Demands for Antibacterial Peptides.","authors":"Hisham N Farrag,&nbsp;Hirokazu Shimooka,&nbsp;Mitsuru Kitamura","doi":"10.7888/juoeh.45.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7888/juoeh.45.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The emergent disaster of antimicrobial resistance developed by virulent bacteria has highlighted the need to investigate substitutes for the presently existing antibiotics. Antibacterial peptides (ABPs) have arisen as promising substitutes because of their unique killing effect on bacteria: bacterial resistance toward ABPs is negligible. ABPs have many beneficial subsidiary effects, such as protection of labile bioactive compounds, and they can be covalently connected to different materials to enhance their antibacterial effect. Many researchers have investigated many applications of these peptides recently, such as in a variety of pharmaceutical dosage forms and wastewater treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":17570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of UOEH","volume":"45 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10849494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[A Case Of An Elderly Patient With Blake's Pouch Cyst].","authors":"Hirotsugu Ohta,&nbsp;Junpei Kiyono,&nbsp;Yu Muroya,&nbsp;Junkoh Yamamoto","doi":"10.7888/juoeh.45.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7888/juoeh.45.129","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Blake's pouch cyst is a congenital disease in which the ventricle enlargement is a non-communicating hydrocephalus. Some elderly patients have a process of the idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (communicating hydrocephalus). We report an elderly patient with Blake's pouch cyst. A 68-year-old man visited our hospital with a gait disturbance that had begun 2 years previously but had become aggravated. He did not have dementia or urinary disturbance. CT scan and MRI showed the hydrocephalus included an IV ventricle, and the cerebrocerebellar fluid space in the posterior fossa was large. A Tap test was positive, so we attempted lumboperitoneal shunt, and his gait disturbance improved.</p>","PeriodicalId":17570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of UOEH","volume":"45 2","pages":"129-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9559780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Causes of Countermeasures Against Serious Accidents Caused by Health Hazards of Chemical Substances, Based on Cases of Occupational Accidents in Japan].","authors":"Kunio Hara, Mitsuo Hinoue, Sumiyo Ishimatsu","doi":"10.7888/juoeh.45.243","DOIUrl":"10.7888/juoeh.45.243","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to summarize the typical and specific causes and risk reduction measures of serious accidents in Japan caused by chemical substances in terms of the 10 types of human health hazards in the UN GHS (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals) classification. The list of \"Cases of Major Accidents Caused by Chemical Substances\" published on the \"Safety in the Workplace Website\" of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) was linked to the \"Results of GHS Classification by the Government\" of the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE). Analysis was conducted by health hazards in order to obtain reference examples of measures taken against health hazards in response to the revision of the law on autonomous chemical substance management in 2022. Using the text mining tool KH Coder ver. Three using cluster analysis, we grouped causes and measures among serious disasters by health hazard, illustrated co-occurrence networks, and extracted typical examples of each in a co-occurrence network. Representative causes of and measures against occupational accidents caused by health hazardous properties were summarized from the extracted typical cases. Although few occupational accidents were caused by the health hazards of chemicals, when all health hazards were classified into acute toxicity, acute health hazard, and chronic health hazard, contact was a clear cause for many of the acute toxicity and acute health hazards, such as corrosiveness and sensitization. However, many occupational accidents were caused by the physical hazardous aspects of the chemical substances or by the safety aspects of the workplace. Causes of occupational accidents due to health hazards included unsafe behavior and unsafe conditions, or lack of understanding of the physicochemical properties of a substance and specific reactions such as mixing or hydrolysis of the substance. Typical risk reduction measures for health hazards included equipment to prevent human contact with health hazardous substances, systems to control unsafe behavior, promoting understanding of chemical reactions, and providing information about chemicals to all persons involved in testing, research, and subcontract work. The data of occupational accident cases of \"death or more than 4 days lost from work\" were used. Most of the cases were related to acute health hazards, but relatively few to chronic health hazards, and few occupational accidents were caused by health hazards. Most of the occupational accidents were caused by health hazards due to the physical hazards of chemical substances and inadequate workplace safety. In light of the above, it is necessary in autonomous chemical substance management to first take risk reduction measures for workplace safety and chemical physical hazards, then to prevent contact with acute toxicity and acute health hazards such as corrosiveness and sensitization, and, lastly, to take risk r","PeriodicalId":17570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of UOEH","volume":"45 4","pages":"243-257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138498728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Relationship Between Preoperative Frailty Risk as Assessed by the Hospital Frailty Risk Score and the Outcome at Discharge in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) Patients: A Retrospective Observational Study Using the Diagnosis Procedure Combination Database.","authors":"Nozomu Sugimoto, Ryutaro Matsugaki, Satoshi Kuhara, Hanaka Imamura, Hideaki Itoh, Masaru Araki, Kiyohide Fushimi, Shinya Matsuda, Satoru Saeki","doi":"10.7888/juoeh.45.209","DOIUrl":"10.7888/juoeh.45.209","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relationship between the Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS)-based frailty risk and outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is yet unclear. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between preoperative frailty risk as assessed by the HFRS and postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing CABG. This observational study used the diagnosis procedure combination (DPC) system in Japan (2014-2017). In total, 35,015 adults aged ≥ 65 years and diagnosed with angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarction who had undergone CABG were enrolled. We investigated the association between the HFRS-based frailty risk and the home discharge rate, as well as the prevalence of complications. Multilevel logistic regression analysis revealed that having an HFRS ≥ 5 was a determinant of lower home discharge rate (odds ratio [OR] 0.60, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.49-0.74, P <0.01), aspiration pneumonia (OR 2.25, 95%CI 1.27-3.96, P <0.01) and disuse syndrome (OR 1.90, 95%CI 1.23-2.94, P <0.01). Preoperative stratification of frailty risk using HFRS may help in predicting postoperative progress and in planning postoperative rehabilitation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of UOEH","volume":"45 4","pages":"209-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138498734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Abstracts of the 40th Annual Meeting of the UOEH Association of Health Sciences].","authors":"","doi":"10.7888/juoeh.45.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7888/juoeh.45.55","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of UOEH","volume":"45 1","pages":"55-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9121645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Vaccination in Workplace and Compensation for Adverse Events - In the Pandemic of COVID-19 - (Corrigendum)].","authors":"Tatsunori Suemitsu, Shogo Miyazaki, Kazuto Sato, Yutaro Hashimoto","doi":"10.7888/juoeh.45.141","DOIUrl":"10.7888/juoeh.45.141","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of UOEH","volume":"45 2","pages":"141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9618281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Journal of UOEH, List of Referees for Volume 45 (No.1-4)].","authors":"","doi":"10.7888/juoeh.45.259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7888/juoeh.45.259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of UOEH","volume":"45 4","pages":"259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138498731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Support Needed for the Transition From Legal System Management to Self-Controlled Management of Chemical Substances].","authors":"Mitsuo Hinoue,&nbsp;Shimpei Yamada,&nbsp;Kunio Hara","doi":"10.7888/juoeh.45.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7888/juoeh.45.31","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An open-ended questionnaire was administered to the participants of a six-part lecture series on self-controlled management of chemical substances regarding the support those participants would need when transitioning to that system, and the required elements of support were examined using a text-mining tool (KH Coder Ver. 3). The subjects were 59 persons who attended the lectures on an overview of self-controlled management of chemical substances and answered a questionnaire after the course. The lectures were organized by the Graduate School of Occupational Health, University of Occupational and Environmental Health from January-February 2022. The participants themselves indicated that they needed knowledge and up-to-date information on the revised law, as well as education about chemical substances. As for the support needed for individuals, the following were considered necessary: to provide support for education; management; information; the latest information; and education about the toxicity and dangers of chemical substances, which are necessary for education and chemical substance management in accordance with the revised law. As for the support needed for organizations, it was considered necessary to support the understanding of top management and the securing of necessary human resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":17570,"journal":{"name":"Journal of UOEH","volume":"45 1","pages":"31-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10860662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}