A 33 years old woman was referred to our hospital since her sixth pregnancy had been revealed. In fact, at 19 years of age she had diagnosed as having systemic lupus erythematosus without organ failure. In addition, s...
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A 33 years old woman was referred to our hospital since her sixth pregnancy had been revealed. In fact, at 19 years of age she had diagnosed as having systemic lupus erythematosus without organ failure. In addition, she had a past history of uncontrollable severe pregnancy-induced hypertension occurred during the second pregnancy, resulting in extremely premature delivery and following postpartum HELLP syndrome. It was so severe that we employed administration of dexamethasone and plasma exchange to ameliorate a life-threatening situation. In the course of her recovery it was revealed that she had been complicated with antiphospholipid antibodies, and at the same time we observed that phosphatidylserine-dependent anti-prothrombin antibody IgG levels were declining as her condition was getting better. There-after, she became pregnant three times, but all pregnancies ended in miscarriage despite administration of prednisolone and anticoagulant therapy. Therefore, we realized that her recurrent miscarriages could not be prevented with generally acceptable therapies, so we tried intravenous immunoglobulin shortly after fetal heart beats were detected. In fact, her sixth pregnancy was going well, but we had to terminate it at the 35th week of gestation due to the onset of HELLP syndrome-like condition. However, she could achieve an almost intact pregnancy outcome without neonatal complications or persistently worsening postpartum HELLP syndrome-like condition. Considering the etiologic relation overlapping between systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome and recurrent miscarriage, intravenous immunoglobulin can be one of the treatment options for severe secondary recurrent miscarriage, although the evidence of the treatment is always certain. In addition, a decline of phosphatidylserine-dependent anti-prothrombin antibody IgG levels we observed in this case may represent its therapeutic immunomodulatory effects.
[Background] Medical staff have many occasions to be exposed to anticancer drugs (ACDs) in the process of performing cancer chemotherapy. Although guidelines for the safe handling of ACDs have been published, actual m...
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[Background] Medical staff have many occasions to be exposed to anticancer drugs (ACDs) in the process of performing cancer chemotherapy. Although guidelines for the safe handling of ACDs have been published, actual measures against exposure to ACDs differ between hospitals, and no surveillance data regarding the conditions of each hospital in relation to performing chemotherapy in Japan are available. [Methods] To understand current measures against exposure to ACDs and problems related to cancer chemotherapy at outpatient departments, we conducted a questionnaire survey on doctors, pharmacists, and nurses in 10 leading hospitals for cancer chemotherapy in Japan. [Results] Responses were received from all 10 institutions. The hospital pharmacists prepared all ACDs for outpatients in each institution. All hospitals took basic measures against ACD exposure, such as using personal protective equipment and penetration-resistant waste containers. Conditions against exposure to ACDs generally improved between 2012 and 2015, especially in terms of conveyance of ACDs and use of a closed-system drug transfer device. However, no measures linking ACDs with administration routes or injection sites were commonly taken in any of the hospitals in 2015. [Conclusions] Conditions against ACD exposure improved between 2012 and 2015, possibly because new guidelines were issued. To improve measures for ACD exposure in Japan, preparing more appropriate manuals and offering more opportunities to medical staff for continuing education are considered important.
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