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CONTENTS　Vol.14No.3 JULY2007

    HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS ISSUE

　 Should we use glucocorticoids for severe community-acquired pneumonia? 253

Kei HAYASHIDA, Seitaro FUJISHIMA

　 Hydrocortisone infusion for severe community-acquired pneumonia: Yes, not so fast, or no? 255 

Masaji NISHIMURA

　 Post-ICU respiratory care center is needed! 257

Kazufumi OKAMOTO, Tadashi KIKUCHI, Yukio SEKIGUCHI

　

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and intensive care unit

260

Shuzo MATSUSHITA

　 Prevention and management of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection -an update 262

Kota OKINAGA, Hisae IINUMA

　 Approach to fungal infection in severe acute pancreatitis   265

Yoshifumi TAKEYAMA

　

Antiarrhythmic agent: a potassium channel blocker  

267

Yoshifusa AIZAWA

    REVIEW ARTICLE

　 Pulmonary thromboembolism and antipsychotic drugs   271

Satoko HAMANAKA, Yoshito KAMIJO

　

Specialty qualification for intensive care medicine in Japan and foreign countries

277

Takasuke IMAI

    COMMENTARY ARTICLE

　 Techniques for percutaneous tracheostomy and cricothyrotomy 289

Masakazu MORI, Takayuki NOGUCHI

    ORIGINAL ARTICLES

　 Outcome and prognostic factors in critically ill cancer patients admitted to an intensive care unit 299

Sumitada KAWASAKI, Ichiro ABE

　

Factors affecting postoperative care in the patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass

 309

Tomofumi SUZUKI, Toshiyuki ODA, Satoshi INOUE, Yoshito TAKAGI

    CASE REPORTS

　

Three cases of low dose hydrocortisone infusion for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) caused by community-acquired pneumonia 

 315

Takamitsu HAMADA, Shinya NISHIMURA, Motoko KIMURA
Yoshiya MIYAZAKI, Hidenobu NISHIHARA, Takahiko MORI

　

A case of home mechanical ventilation required after lung lobectomy 

321

Hideki TANIGUCHI, Osami TAKANO, Toshio SASAKI
You SUGAWARA, Toshinari SHIBATA

　

A successful use of continuous hemodiafiltration (CHDF) in a patient of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) admitted to ICU with acute respiratory and renal failures 

 325

Yoshiro KOBE, Nobuya KITAMURA, Satoshi HIKITA, Akira HAYASAKA

　

A case of postsplenectomy meningitis caused by infection with penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae

331

Tadashi KIKUCHI, Junichiro HAMASAKI, Tomotsugu YASUDA, Shogo TASHIRO
Kenichi SAI, Masashi SAKANO, Toshiaki ARIMURA, Ken SONODA

    BRIEF REPORTS

　

The adhensive substance in the centrifugal blood pump used for extracorporeal life support

  335

Tadakazu YOKOKAWA, Masakazu ABE, Seigo GOMI, Yukihiro YOSHIMURA

　

A case of septic shock associated with acute pyelonephritis without remarkable findings of urine analysis

 337

Tomonori MINAGAWA, Hiroshi IMAMURA, Keiji TSUTSUMI, Yoshiaki KINEBUCHI
Masakuni ISHIKAWA, Takahisa DOMEN, Osamu NISHIZAWA, Kazufumi OKAMOTO

　 Enteral administration of voriconazole improved Candidemia with severe acute pancreatitis 339

Koichiro YONEMITSU, Daikai SADAMITSU, Masato NISHINO, Kousei HAKU
Mitsuo OHNISHI, Yoshito MAENO, Yumiko SHIMAHARA, Michiharu SAKAMOTO

　 Cardiogenic pulmonary edema due to donor-recipient size mismatch after heart transplantation 341

Tomoyo NISHIDA, Hideaki IMANAKA, Muneyuki TAKEUCHI, Naoya IGUCHI
Makiko ICHIKAWA, Chihiro TAKAYAMA, Takeshi NAKATANI, Soichiro KITAMURA

　

A case report with septic shock showing difficulty in weaning from steroid replacement therapy 

343

Chihiro TAKAYAMA, Muneyuki TAKEUCHI, Naoya IGUCHI, Makiko ICHIKAWA
Shinsuke AKAEDA, Yumiko MIZUNO, Tomoyo NISHIDA, Hideaki IMANAKA

　

Successful use of nifekalant hydrochloride for 37 days in a patient with refractory ventricular tachycardia following septic shock

 345

Hiroaki ITO, Kazuya SOBUE, Hiroyuki HIRATE, Takafumi AZAMI
Shoji ITO, Hiroshi SASANO, Akinori TAKEUCHI, Hirotada KATSUYA

    LETTER
　 2nd Acute Kidney Injury Network meeting 347

Shigehiko UCHINO

　

A neutrophil elastase inhibitor (sivelestat sodium) for acute lung injury: certain evidence or a secret remedy in the far east 

 349

Nobuaki SHIME, Satoru HASHIMOTO