1.Awareness of the Patients with Senile Cataract. Experience in the Preoperative Orientation.
Atsuko ITOH ; Etsuko WAKAMATSU ; Kiyo SUZUKI ; Kiyomi ARAKAWA ; Chikako YASHIRO ; Etsuko HATAKEYAMA ; Tetsuko SAITO ; Chieko MIYAGI ; Tomomi TERUI ; Ichiko KUDO ; Nobuko SATO ; Akiko SHIBATA
Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 1995;44(4):569-572
A total of 78 patients were operated on for senile cataract in our hospital in 1985. The number almost doubled to 142 in 1992, more than 90 percent of whom received the intraocular lens. We asked each patient postoperatively to submit a questionnaire, and found the greatest inconvenience suffered before surgery was the difficulty in reading the letters. Patients with senile cataract have anxiety due to extremely weak eyesight, therefore, we believe it is very important for them to receive orientation before the operation. Until recently, we used the B5-sized (10.12″×7.17″) leaflet for a guide to the operation, but the type was too small for them to read. We renewed the guide by using a F8-sized (17.95″× 14.96″) sketch book. We put them in the sickrooms Just before they patients left our hospital, we asked them for their opinion about the guide. 90 percent of the patients said that they were satisfied with the size of the type, all of them said that the contents are easy to understand, and 50 percent said they read the guide more than twice.
In conclusion, we found that the sketch book, full of illustrations, was quite convenient for senile patients and read repeatedly. It was also a great help to them, because it gave them encouragement and made it easy for them to prepare themselves for the operation.
2.The first-round results of a populationbased cohort study of HPV testing in Japanese cervical cancer screening: baseline characteristics, screening results, and referral rate
Kanako KONO ; Tohru MORISADA ; Kumiko SAIKA ; Eiko Saitoh AOKI ; Etsuko MIYAGI ; Kiyoshi ITO ; Hirokazu TAKAHASHI ; Tomio NAKAYAMA ; Hiroshi SAITO ; Daisuke AOKI
Journal of Gynecologic Oncology 2021;32(3):e29-
Objective:
In 2013, a cohort study aimed to clarify the positive and negative effects of introducing the human papillomavirus (HPV) testing for population-based cervical cancer screening has been launched in Japan. This study included four screenings during the subsequent 7-year follow-up period. We aim to describe the results of the first round of this study on cervical cancer screening here.
Methods:
This study began in September 2013 with recruitment completed in March 2016.Women aged 30–49 years were divided into 2 groups: those who received uterine cervical cytology alone in the first year (control group), or those who received a combination of cytology and HPV testing (intervention group), based on their age. After first screening, women with positive result of cytology or positive HPV test required referral. We summarized the results of the first round of cervical cancer screening.
Results:
Of the 25,074 women who were eligible for the study, 13,845 women (55.2%) were screened with cytology alone; 11,229 women (44.8%) received a combination of cytology and HPV testing. After screening, 407 women (2.9%) in the control group and 1,003 women (8.9%) in the intervention group required referral, respectively. Adding HPV testing increased referral rate significantly (p<0.001).
Conclusion
After first screening, introduction of HPV testing appears to contribute to significantly higher referral rates, suggesting that the number of colposcopies as a detailed examination may increase. These preliminary findings suggest that if HPV testing is introduced into screening, medical institutions need to be prepared for an increasing number of follow-up examinations.
3.Outcomes of the study of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and sperm motility with microdissection testicular sperm extraction.
Yuuka ARAI ; Hiroe UENO ; Mizuki YAMAMOTO ; Haruna IZUMI ; Kazumi TAKESHIMA ; Tomonari HAYAMA ; Hideya SAKAKIBARA ; Yasushi YUMURA ; Etsuko MIYAGI ; Mariko MURASE
Asian Journal of Andrology 2022;24(2):221-222