Oita Prefectural Hospital

Impact of Circumferential Calcification and Acquired Minimum Lumen Area on 1‐Year Primary Patency After Drug‐Coated Balloon Angioplasty for Femoropopliteal Lesions

BACKGROUND: Severe calcification predicts restenosis after drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty for femoropopliteal lesions, but whether an adequate post-procedural minimum lumen area (MLA) can attenuate this effect, and how intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) circumferential calcif...

Executive summary of the Japanese clinical practice guidelines for tuberous sclerosis complex-associated epilepsy 2025

Purpose Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)-associated epilepsy often involves focal epilepsy, infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS), and drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). This article presents an executive summary of the Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Tuberous Sclerosi...