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Contents  Vol.8 No.2 APRIL 2001

    REVIEW
　 Measurement of plasma procalcitonin in the intensive care unit 89

Hidekazu Yukioka, Gen Yoshida

    ORIGINAL ARTICLES
　 Clinical significance of nausea and vomiting in the prehospital phase of acute Q-wave myocardial infarction 97

Kengo Hatada, Tetsuro Sugiura, Seishi Nakamura, Masaya Urakami, Toshiji Iwasaka
　 Spectrophotometric measurement of hepatic oxygenation
−Mapping of intracapillary hemoglobin oxygenation−		 103

Yasuyuki Kakihana, Manfred Kessler, Alfons Krug, Feng Yuan Zhuang
Haruhiko Yamada, Masataka Nakamura, Toshiyuki Oda, Yuichi Kanmura

    CASE REPORTS
　 A case of tumor lysis syndrome during chemotherapy for acute leukemia 109

Takayuki Iitomi, Yasuhiro Kuroda, Kenichi Suga, Tadashi Abe
Yasushi Fukuta, Fumiko Kishi, Yumiko Sato, Shuzo Oshita
　 A case of knotting of the pulmonary artery catheter in a patient undergoing percutaneous cardiopulmonary support 115

Masaki Toriyabe, Yasuo Kobayashi, Naohiro Kokita
Rika Sekine, Takahiro Ichimiya, Akiyoshi Namiki
　 Long-term mechanical ventilation by the concept of permissive hypercapnia with bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) 119

Mariko Kotani, Toru Kotani, Akiko Ishikawa, Kaoru Koyama
Hiroshi Morisaki, Ryoichi Ochiai, Junzo Takeda
　 A case of acute pulmonary thromboembolism improved by insertion of a pulmonary artery catheter 123

Miharu Masuoka, Shinpei Yanagawa, Hideaki Tsuchida
Katsuhiko Nakamura, Satoru Oyanagi, Takeshi Tanabe

    brief reports
　 Effectiveness of the combination of plasma exchange and continuous hemodiafiltration in patients with acute hepatic failure 127

Hajime Nakae, Tsutomu Yonekawa, Hiroshi Wada, Hiroyuki Tanaka
　 Three cases of Streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome 129

Kunikazu Yamane, Kouichiro Suzuki, Tetsu Okumura, Ryozo Kobayashi
Mitsuhiro Aoki, Atsuhiro Fukuda, Chiiho Fujii, Akitsugu Kohama
　 Reexpansion pulmonary edema localized to the collapsed lower lobe associated with spontaneous pneumothorax 131

Sunao Tamai, Tetsutaro Shinomura, Takehiko Adachi
　 Optimal inflation volume for an occlusion balloon of a double-lumen vascular access catheter 133

Yoshiharu Hasegawa, Shinji Takahashi, Fumio Kawamura
　 Preoperative explanation about postoperative care decreases patients anxiety 135

Yuji Morimoto, Maki Aoyama, Shigeyuki Sasaki, Satoshi Gando, Osamu Kenmotsu