Pre-operative antibiotics in patients with acute mild cholecystitis undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy: is it really useful? A systematic review by Camilo Ramírez-Giraldo, Isabella Van-Londoño, Antonio Pesce

“…This approach is generally justified in patients with moderate (Tokyo II) and severe (Tokyo III) acute cholecystitis, where organ dysfunction occurs as a result of the inflammatory or infectious process. …”
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Scoping review of initiation criteria for inhaled nitric oxide in preterm infants (born by Hidehiko Nakanishi, Shin Kato, Erika Ota, Toshinori Nakashima, Katsuya Hirata, Sota Iwatani, Seiji Yoshimoto, Masayuki Ochiai, Daichi Suzuki, Fumihiko Namba, Yohei Minamitani, Miku Hosokawa, Atsushi Nakao, Takushi Hanita, Arata Oda, Masafumi Miyata

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Efficacy and Safety of Sacubitril/Valsartan Versus Amlodipine in Japanese Patients With Essential Hypertension: A Randomized, Multicenter, Open‐Label, Noninferiority Study (PARASOL... by Koichi Yamamoto, Daisuke Yarimizu, Ayano Shimanishi, Shunsuke Eguchi, Kazuma Iekushi, Yoichi Takami, Yoichi Nozato, Kazuomi Kario, Hiromi Rakugi

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Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Infants Delivered via Cesarean from Mothers with Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes: A Propensity Score Analysis by Mariko Nakahara, Shunji Goto, Eiji Kato, Atsuo Itakura, Satoru Takeda

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Optimal Delivery of Pain Management in Schwannomatosis: A Literature Review by Hino U, Tamura R, Toda M

“…Utaro Hino,1 Ryota Tamura,2 Masahiro Toda2 1Department of Neurosurgery, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan; 2Department of Neurosurgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence: Ryota Tamura, Department of Neurosurgery, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan, Email moltobello-r-610@keio.jpAbstract: Non-NF2 schwannomatosis is a rare syndrome characterized by multiple benign schwannomas that primarily affect nerve sheaths, with chronic, treatment-resistant pain as the most common symptom. …”
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Renoprotective effects of coenzyme Q10 supplementation in patients with chronic kidney disease: a protocol for a systematic review by Hisashi Noma, Takeshi Hasegawa, Hiroki Nishiwaki, Erika Ota, Taihei Suzuki, Yoshitaka Watanabe, Yoshifusa Abe

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Serial Assessment of Immune Status by Circulating CD8+ Effector T Cell Frequencies for Posttransplant Infectious Complications by Shinji Uemoto, Kazue Ozawa, Hiroto Egawa, Yasutsugu Takada, Hiroshi Sato, Satoshi Teramukai, Mureo Kasahara, Kohei Ogawa, Masako Ono, Kenji Takai, Masanori Fukushima, Kayo Inaba, Koichi Tanaka

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Endoscopic tympanoplasty type I using interlay technique by Masahiro Takahashi, Masaomi Motegi, Kazuhisa Yamamoto, Yutaka Yamamoto, Hiromi Kojima

“…Further study of the postoperative outcomes of this procedure should be conducted to establish the optimal surgical procedure for tympanic perforations. Trial registration: This study was retrospectively approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Jikei University, Tokyo, Japan (approval number: 32-205 10286). …”
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Dosimetric Comparison of Noncoplanar VMAT Without Rotating the Patient Couch Versus Conventional Coplanar/Noncoplanar VMAT for Head and Neck Cancer: First Report of Dynamic Swing A... by Kouta Hirotaki, MS, Kento Tomizawa, MD, PhD, Satoe Kitou, BS, Shunta Jinno, MS, Shunsuke Moriya, PhD, Takeshi Fujisawa, MD, Sadamoto Zenda, MD, PhD, Takeji Sakae, PhD, Masashi Ito, BS

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Single-arm multicenter phase II study on aggressive local consolidative therapy in combination with systemic chemotherapy for stage IV non-small cell lung carcinoma with oligometas... by Takaaki Tokito, Kazuhiko Yamada, Hidenobu Ishii, Yuichi Takiguchi, Go Saito, Koichi Minato, Hisao Imai, Hiroshi Tanaka, Satoru Miura, Kageaki Watanabe, Yoshifusa Koreeda, Akira Ono, Naoki Furuya, Toshihiro Misumi, Kazushige Hayakawa, Etsuyo Ogo, Hiroaki Okamoto

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On Robust Assembly of Flexible Flat Cables Combining CAD and Image Based Multiview Pose Estimation and a Multimodal Robotic Gripper by Junbang Liang, Joao Buzzatto, Bryan Busby, Haodan Jiang, Saori Matsunaga, Rintaro Haraguchi, Mariyama Toshisada, Bruce A. MacDonald, Minas Liarokapis

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Optimal outpatient training for resident physicians’ general medicine in-training examination score: a cross-sectional study by Taiju Miyagami, Yuji Nishizaki, Taro Shimizu, Yu Yamamoto, Kiyoshi Shikino, Koshi Kataoka, Masanori Nojima, Gautam Deshpande, Toshio Naito, Yasuharu Tokuda

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Heads-Up 3D Surgery under Low Light Intensity Conditions: New High-Sensitivity HD Camera for Ophthalmological Microscopes by Celso Soiti Matsumoto, Masayuki Shibuya, Jun Makita, Takuhei Shoji, Hisato Ohno, Kei Shinoda, Harue Matsumoto

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Optimizing the frequency of question items for bird species in quiz-style online training by Yui Ogawa, Keita Fukasawa, Akira Yoshioka, Nao Kumada, Akio Takenaka, Takashi Kamijo

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Targeted Anticancer Immunotoxins and Cytotoxic Agents with Direct Killing Moieties by Koji Kawakami, Oumi Nakajima, Ryuichi Morishita, Ryozo Nagai

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Recent advances in the science of human milk oligosaccharides by Tadasu Urashima, Katsumi Ajisaka, Tetsuro Ujihara, Eri Nakazaki

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation with the Maximum Voluntary Muscle Contraction Facilitates Motor Neuron Excitability and Muscle Force by Tetsuo Touge, Yoshiteru Urai, Kazuyo Ikeda, Kodai Kume, Kazushi Deguchi

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Efficacy of brief intervention for drug misuse in primary care facilities: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol by Toshi A Furukawa, Yan Luo, Norio Watanabe, Ethan Sahker, Masatsugu Sakata, Rie Toyomoto, Chiyoung Hwang, Kazufumi Yoshida

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Efficacy of tranilast in preventing exacerbating cardiac function and death from heart failure in muscular dystrophy patients with advanced-stage heart failure: a single-arm, open-... by Tsuyoshi Matsumura, Takayasu Fukudome, Yasufumi Motoyoshi, Akinori Nakamura, Satoshi Kuru, Kazuhiko Segawa, Ruriko Kitao, Chigusa Watanabe, Takuhisa Tamura, Toshiaki Takahashi, Hiroya Hashimoto, Masahiro Sekimizu, Akiko M. Saito, Masanori Asakura, Koichi Kimura, Yuko Iwata

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50 eV O+ ion induced deposition of tin dioxide using tetramethyltin by Satoru Yoshimura, Takae Takeuchi, Masato Kiuchi

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