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Kyobu Geka ; 71(8): 583-586, 2018 Aug.
Article in Japanese | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30185755

ABSTRACT

In order to demonstrate the clinical efficacy of prone positioning(PP), we reviewed 2 elderly patients with respiratory failure who underwent thoracic aortic surgery. Case 1:An 80-year-old man with true thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) underwent total arch replacement under moderate hypothermia. Two days after surgery, PP was conducted for 3 hours to treat atelectasis and poor oxygenation. His respiratory state and oxygenation subsequently improved and he was weaned from ventilator assistance. Case 2:An 82-year-old woman with early thrombosed acute type A aortic dissection and cardiac tamponade underwent emergency primary repair of the ascending aorta under moderate hypothermia. Six days after surgery, PP was conducted for approximately 3 hours to improve oxygenation. She was weaned from the ventilator 7 days after surgery. The clinical courses of both cases after PP were uneventful. In order to improve the respiratory state of elderly patients after TAA surgery, PP is effective and useful.


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Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/surgery , Aortic Dissection/surgery , Patient Positioning/methods , Postoperative Complications/therapy , Prone Position , Respiratory Insufficiency/complications , Aged, 80 and over , Aorta, Thoracic , Female , Humans , Male , Oxygen Consumption , Pulmonary Atelectasis/therapy , Respiratory Insufficiency/therapy , Treatment Outcome , Ventilator Weaning
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Dev Biol ; 322(1): 65-73, 2008 Oct 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18671960

ABSTRACT

Cardiac troponin T (cTnT) is a component of the troponin (Tn) complex in cardiac myocytes, and plays a regulatory role in cardiac muscle contraction by anchoring two other Tn components, troponin I (TnI) and troponin C, to tropomyosin (Tm) on the thin filaments. In order to determine the in vivo function of cTnT, we created a null cTnT allele in the mouse TNNT2 locus. In cTnT-deficient (cTnT(-/-)) cardiac myocytes, the thick and thin filaments and alpha-actinin-positive Z-disk-like structures were not assembled into sarcomere, causing early embryonic lethality due to a lack of heartbeats. TnI was dissociated from Tm in the thin filaments without cTnT. In spite of loss of Tn on the thin filaments, the cTnT(-/-) cardiac myocytes showed regular Ca(2+)-transients. These findings indicate that cTnT plays a critical role in sarcomere assembly during myofibrillogenesis in the embryonic heart, and also indicate that the membrane excitation and intracellular Ca(2+) handling systems develop independently of the contractile system. In contrast, heterozygous cTnT(+/-) mice had a normal life span with no structural and functional abnormalities in their hearts, suggesting that haploinsufficiency could not be a potential cause of cardiomyopathies, known to be associated with a variety of mutations in the TNNT2 locus.


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Arrhythmias, Cardiac/genetics , Heart Rate, Fetal , Heart/embryology , Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism , Sarcomeres/metabolism , Troponin T/physiology , Actinin/metabolism , Actins/metabolism , Animals , Arrhythmias, Cardiac/physiopathology , Calcium Signaling/genetics , Echocardiography , Embryo, Mammalian , Gene Targeting , Genes, Lethal , Heart/physiopathology , Heart Rate, Fetal/genetics , Heart Ventricles/cytology , Heart Ventricles/embryology , Heart Ventricles/physiopathology , Immunohistochemistry , Mice , Mice, Knockout , Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/physiology , Myocytes, Cardiac/ultrastructure , Organ Culture Techniques , Sarcomeres/genetics , Tropomyosin/metabolism , Troponin T/genetics
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Cell Commun Adhes ; 10(4-6): 365-9, 2003.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-14681043

ABSTRACT

The gap junction protein connexin45-deficient (Cx45-KO) mice die shortly after the hearts begin to beat. In addition to the heart defect, they also show defective vascular development which may be closely related with the cardiac phenotype. Therefore, we created mice whose floxed-Cx45 locus could be removed conditionally. We utilized cardiac alpha-actin-Cre transgenic mice to investigate the specific cardiac muscular function of Cx45 in vivo. The resultant conditional mutants were lethal, showing conduction block similar to that of the Cx45-KO mice. Unlike Cx45-KO, development of the endocardial cushion was not disrupted in the conditional mutants. X-gal staining was detected in the embryonic cardiac myocytes as a hallmark of Cre-loxP mediated floxed-Cx45 deletion. These results reconfirm the requirement of Cx45 for developing cardiac myocytes. These also indicate that establishing the first contractions is a crucial task for the early hearts.


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Cell Communication/physiology , Connexins/metabolism , Myocardium/metabolism , Myocytes, Cardiac/metabolism , Animals , Cloning, Molecular , Embryo, Mammalian/metabolism , Embryo, Mammalian/pathology , Mice , Mice, Knockout , Myocardium/pathology , Myocytes, Cardiac/pathology
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