Takuma Kimura, Shinji Matsumura, Masayoshi Hashimoto, Ken Shinmura
{"title":"Background Factors that Hospital-Based Geriatricians and General Practitioners Associate with Difficulty in Treating Older People with Multimorbidity: A Cross-Sectional Survey.","authors":"Takuma Kimura, Shinji Matsumura, Masayoshi Hashimoto, Ken Shinmura","doi":"10.1620/tjem.2024.J045","DOIUrl":"10.1620/tjem.2024.J045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, hospital-based geriatricians and general practitioners in Japan who frequently manage older people with multimorbidity in an acute setting have often found treating these patients difficult. In this study, we surveyed geriatricians and general practitioners who treat older people with multimorbidity in hospitals to identify patient characteristics that make treatment provision difficult in these patients. In June 2022, we mailed an anonymous questionnaire to 3,300 family medicine specialists, primary care-certified physicians, and geriatric specialists in Japan. We used a four-point Likert-type scale to score items specific to diseases, patient backgrounds, clinical factors, and important clinical strategies that make treatment provision difficult. We used logistic regression analysis to identify factors that hospital-based geriatricians and general practitioners associate with difficulty in treating older adults with multimorbidity. In total, 490 cases were included in the analysis. The factors that were associated with difficulty in treating older people with multimorbidity were experience as a physician (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 0.935; 95% confidence interval [95% CI]: 0.905-0.965), the overall scores for difficult disease (AOR: 1.028; 95% CI: 1.004-1.053) and difficult background (AOR: 1.065; 95% CI: 1.005-1.129), and the lack of emphasis on general practice guidelines (AOR: 2.91; 95% CI: 1.305-6.491). To facilitate the treatment of older people with multimorbidity, it is desirable to enhance education and training and strengthen support systems within Japan's healthcare system based on the characteristics of hospital physicians who find treating these patients difficult.</p>","PeriodicalId":23187,"journal":{"name":"Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"61-72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141427610","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":"Abnormal Expression of lncRNA SNHG7 in Dry Eye Disease and Its Effect on Human Conjunctival Epithelial Cells.","authors":"Shuang Liu, Guang Yang, Qingnan Li, Shaohua Tang","doi":"10.1620/tjem.2024.J134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1620/tjem.2024.J134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23187,"journal":{"name":"Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142682850","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}
Kangli Lu, Yujiao Huang, Zhicai Chen, Kuncheng Cai
{"title":"Effects of Neurotrophic Tyrosine Kinase Receptor Type I NTRK1 Polymorphism on Epidural Analgesia with Hydromorphone during Labor.","authors":"Kangli Lu, Yujiao Huang, Zhicai Chen, Kuncheng Cai","doi":"10.1620/tjem.2024.J135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1620/tjem.2024.J135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23187,"journal":{"name":"Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142682985","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":"Focal Light Chain Proximal Tubulopathy Complicated by Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance/Smoldering Multiple Myeloma Successfully Diagnosed by Immunofluorescence on Pronase-Digested Paraffin Section: Reports of Two Cases and Review of the Literature.","authors":"Tetsuya Abe, Yukihiro Wada, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Ryota Uchitsubo, Shun Sakurabayashi, Sayumi Kawamura, Mariko Kamata, Shokichi Naito, Togo Aoyama, Akira Shimizu, Yasuo Takeuchi","doi":"10.1620/tjem.2024.J047","DOIUrl":"10.1620/tjem.2024.J047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Light chain proximal tubulopathy (LCPT) is a rare type of paraprotein-related disease (PRDs) characterized by monoclonal free light chain (FLC) deposition in proximal tubular epithelial cells (PTECs). A diagnosis of LCPT requires identification of FLC deposition in PTECs; however, FLC luminescence defects in immunofluorescence staining using frozen tissue (IF-F), regarded as \"masked LCPT\", are occasionally encountered. We describe two cases of focal masked LCPT in monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) or smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) diagnosed by IF in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections following pronase digestion (IF-P) rather than by IF-F. Case 1 was a 66-year-old woman who exhibited renal dysfunction with IgG-λ monoclonal proteinemia, and Case 2 was a 69-year-old man who exhibited renal dysfunction with IgG-κ type monoclonal proteinemia. In both cases, renal pathology showed focal tubular damage consisted of swelling and desquamation of PTECs. FLC deposition in PTECs was detectable by IF-P but not by IF-F. Consequently, an appropriate diagnosis by IF-P led the patients to receive chemotherapy immediately. These two cases indicate that LCPT can be present even if tubular injury is focal and PRD is not severe. According to a literature review of 33 cases, including our 2 cases, focal LCPT complicated by MGUS/SMM is relative rare. In PRD, evaluation with IF-P is desirable for assessing LCPT when FLC deposition is undetected by IF-F despite characteristic degenerative PTECs. We consider that early and definitive diagnosis of LCPT by IF-P rather than IF-F might result in favorite outcome since physicians could smoothly decide treatment strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":23187,"journal":{"name":"Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"53-60"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141427613","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}