Cline Snow (cardpisces47)

The variations of the amplitude of the time-domain Brillouin scattering signal are only due to the variations of the probe light amplitude caused by light focusing/diffraction. Although the amplitude of the acoustically scattered light is proportional to the product of the local acoustical and probe light field amplitudes, the temporal dynamics of the time-domain Brillouin scattering signal amplitude is independent of the dynamics of the coherent acoustic pulse amplitude.A 37-year-old man was admitted to our department following the detection of bulky tumors in his bilateral adrenal glands. A biopsy resulted in the diagnosis of extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma, nasal type (ENKL). After debulking by chemotherapy, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHCT) was performed. Relapses in the liver and adrenal glands were identified 2 months post alloHCT, for which temporary administration of l-asparaginase resulted in complete metabolic response. However, multiple relapses in the central nervous system and lethal lymphomatous meningitis successively developed. Primary adrenal ENKL could tend to present as bulky lesion and follow an aggressive clinical course.An 85-year-old woman with antibiotics-resistant pneumonia after surgery for metastatic brain tumor from lung cancer was consulted to our department. Chest CT showed diffuse GGO bilaterally. BALF showed elevated ratios of lymphocytes and CD4/CD8. Tests for bacteria, mycobacteria, and fungi were negative. She improved following levetiracetam discontinuance and systemic corticosteroid administration, and we diagnosed levetiracetam-induced lung injury. Although levetiracetam is widely used, few reports of levetiracetam-induced pneumonia exist. Changes in chest images may occur after levetiracetam administration if patients have multiple risk factors for development of drug-induced interstitial lung disease. Bronchoscopy is useful for differential diagnosis if new lung lesions appear after starting levetiracetam.A-71-year-old woman was diagnosed as chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) accompanied by essential thrombocythemia (ET) with JAK2 V617F mutation. Blood test showed remarkable increase of platelet counts (132.9 × 10^4/μL) and elevated plasma BNP level (125.1pg/mL). Right heart catheterization (RHC) revealed remarkably high mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mPAP) of 43 mmHg. We gave her riociguat of 7.5mg, oral anticoagulants, oxygen inhalation for CTEPH, and anagrelide for ET. We performed 4 sessions of balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) in 9 months RHC revealed successful hemodynamic improvement (mPAP = 21 mmHg) after final BPA procedure without riociguat. At six month later after final BPA procedure, RHC showed steadily improvement of mPAP (21 mmHg) without riociguat and oxygen inhalation. She lives well without oxygen inhalation and PH targeted therapy. This is the first report of successful treatment for a patient with CTEPH comorbid with ET with JAK2 V617F mutation by BPA.Pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis (PCH) is a rare cause of pulmonary hypertension (PH) associated with poor prognosis. Clinically, it is characterized by severe hypoxemia, centrilobular ground-glass opacities on computed tomography, and pulmonary congestion triggered by pulmonary vasodilating therapy. In some cases, PCH has been reported to develop with other disorders including connective tissue disease; however, to date, no reports have described PCH in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. We report a case of a 59-year-old male PCH patient with rheumatoid arthritis and associated pulmonary fibrosis. He was initially diagnosed with severe group 3 PH and received sildenafil, which generated a favorable hemodynamic response. However, 5 years later, his pulmonary hemodynamics deteriorated, and he died at the age of 67. An autopsy was performed, and thickening of alveolar septa and capillary proliferation, pathological features of PCH, were extensively observed in both lu