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Spinopelvic Alignment and Low Back Pain before and after Total Knee Arthroplasty
Kitagawa Atsushi,Yamamoto Junya,Toda Mitsunori,Hashimoto Yasushi 대한척추외과학회 2021 Asian Spine Journal Vol.15 No.1
Study Design: Prospective cohort study.Purpose: This study aims to examine changes in spinopelvic alignment, sagittal global balance, and low back pain (LBP) following the removal of knee flexion contracture by total knee arthroplasty (TKA).Overview of Literature: The limitation of the knee extension was correlated with the decrease in lumbar lordosis (LL). Currently, there are no studies evaluating the spinopelvic alignment and LBP before and after TKAs.Methods: Sagittal spinopelvic alignment was evaluated in 110 subjects using radiographs of the whole spine. Parameters measured in this study included sagittal vertical axis (SVA), LL, sacral slope (SS), pelvic tilt (PT), and pelvic incidence (PI). The distribution of sagittal plane modifier grade was evaluated according to the Scoliosis Research Society-Schwab classification of adult spinal deformity (ASD). Consequently, personal history related to LBP was obtained, and the association of pre- and postoperative LBP and spinopelvic alignment was investigated.Results: Preoperatively, 66% of all subjects showed LBP and mostly exhibited anteriorly shifted global imbalance associated with a decrease in LL and knee flexion contractures, and the subject who had severe flexion contracture of the knee joint showed more forwardly shifted global balance with backward PT and decrease in LL. After TKAs, the knee flexion contractures were eliminated in most cases, and one-third of subjects experienced decrease in LBP. However, SVA increased more and associated with slight decrease of PT and increase of SS. No significant differences were confirmed between pre- and postoperative values of LL and PI. In addition, there were no significant differences in postoperative values of spinopelvic parameters between subjects with and without relieved LBP.Conclusions: Although one-third of subjects experienced decrease of LBP after TKAs, the sagittal global imbalance was not restored through the removal of knee flexion contracture.
Kitagawa, Hakuba,Ohtsu, Hiroyoshi,Kawano, Masaki WILEY‐VCH Verlag 2013 Angewandte Chemie Vol.125 No.47
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Kitagawa, Yasuhide,Urata, Satoko,Narimoto, Kazutaka,Nakagawa, Tomomi,Izumi, Kouji,Kadono, Yoshifumi,Konaka, Hiroyuki,Mizokami, Atsushi,Namiki, Mikio Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 2014 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention Vol.15 No.17
The International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) is often used as an interview sheet for assessing lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) at the time of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing during population-based screening for prostate cancer. However, the relationship between prostate cancer detection and LUTS status remains controversial. To elucidate this relationship, the cumulative probability of prostate cancer detection using IPSS in biopsy samples from patients categorized by serum PSA levels was investigated. The clinical characteristics of prostate cancer detected using IPSS during screening were also investigated. A total of 1,739 men aged 54-75 years with elevated serum PSA levels who completed the IPSS questionnaire during the initial population screening in Kanazawa City, Japan and underwent systematic transrectal ultrasonography-guided prostate biopsy between 2000 and 2013 were enrolled in the present study. Of the 1,739 men, 544 (31.3%) were diagnosed with prostate cancer during the observation period. The probability of cancer detection at 3 years in the entire study population was 27.4% and 32.7% for men with $IPSS{\leq}7$ and those with $IPSS{\geq}8$, respectively; there was no statistically significant difference between groups. In men with serum PSA levels of 6.1 to 12.0ng/mL at initial screening, the probability of cancer detection was significantly higher in men with $IPSS{\leq}7$ than in those with $IPSS{\geq}8$. There were no significant differences in clinical characteristics between groups of patients stratified by IPSS. These findings indicate that the use of IPSS for LUTS status evaluation may be useful for prostate cancer detection in the limited range of serum PSA levels.
Spectroscopic Imaging of Combustion and Flames for Energy Systems
( Kuniyuki Kitagawa ) 경남대학교 신소재연구소 2013 신소재연구 Vol.25 No.-
From a viewpoint of green energy, visualization of physical properties that can not be seen by our eyes, by spectroscopic imaging, is a key to optimizing energy systems which utilize combustion and flames. Among the physical properties involved in combustion and flames, spatial distributions of temperature and chemical species are the most important physical properties. In this paper, the author will review several results of visualization by spectroscopic imaging as well as some basic principles involved in these applications. For example, you usually think that temperature is temperature, and no other properties. Do you know, however, what the definition of temperature is? Have you ever imagined that there are several sorts of temperatures, and that sometime they are not identical in magnitude? What is the reality of flame. Have you ever seen what chemical species are inside flames? In addition to combustion flames, spectroscopic imaging has been applied to discharge plasmas at temperatures over 4000 K. Do you know how to measure such high temperatures? Thermo couples that is employed at temperatures of up to 3000 K, can not be applied to measure plasma temperatures. It is a wonderful thing if we can visualize unseen properties, isn`t it?