Purpose: Our study investigated the risk of recanalization, from a hemodynamic perspective in six patients with visceral aneurysm embolization using coil packing, occasionally along with combined outflow vessel embolization. Methods: Blood flow simulations were performed using anatomically realistic vessel geometry created from the patient’s computed tomography images. A porous media model that represented flow in the embolized aneurysmal region was employed. Stagnant volume ratio (SVR) was evaluated to quantify the stagnation of flow within the embolized aneurysm. Results: SVR was elevated, with increased packing density (PD), in all patients. In the patient with recanalization, the rate of increase in SVR for PD <20% was smaller than that in the other five other patients, and the SVR for the actual PD was the lowest. In the five patients without recanalization, the SVR for the actual PD was greater than 80% at Reynolds number of 300. Conclusion: Individualized blood flow simulations focusing on SVR would be a useful tool to determine the clinical endpoint, the optimum individualized PD and to optimize postoperative follow-up of visceral aneurysms.
Part III is concerned with the implications for education. Considering the educational value of somaesthetics, Shusterman stated, "No matter how compartmentalized our institutional learning has become, we become educated as embodied wholes. As there is a somatic dimension to all our feeling, thinking, and behavior, so we can sometimes get a better handle on the education of our emotions, attitudes, and conduct by approaching things from the somatic side." 1 I investigate the problem of learning by taking the basic idea of somaesthetics into consideration in this chapter.
Uncomplicated type B aortic dissection (AD) has a poor long-term outcome and further optimization of predictors for aortic expansion is required. Seventeen patients with chronic type B AD who underwent 4D flow MRI were included and divided into two groups based on the aortic growth rate. The morphological and hemodynamic parameters in each group were retrospectively analyzed. The forward flow and volume in true lumen and ratio of these parameters at entry and false lumen to true lumen were significantly higher in the fast growth-rate group than in the slow one; no morphological parameters showed a significant difference.
In this chapter, I considered "Eastern body theory" while taking Shusterman's philosophical background into account. By doing so, it becomes clear that there is no substantial theoretical framework for "Eastern body theory," which is, more or less, a possible problematization of the East compared with the West. We can accept the connection of Yuasa's Eastern body theory to pragmatism because of the lack of metaphysics. The Eastern body theory would thus be able to join hands with pragmatic ideas developed in the United States as a liberation from the European philosophical tradition. Another point of view would be a paradigm shift in terms of the relationship between theory and practice suggested in the notion of shugyo. An innovation of the relationship, such as the combination of "theory" with "practise"—or a "theory" spun out of "practice,"—would correspond with Shusterman's idea of somaesthetics, including both the analytic/pragmatic and the practical. I considered other literature written in Japanese such as The Body living in Culture: Essays on Inter-Cultural Phenomenology (2004) by I. Yamaguchi, Zen in the Art of Archery (1977) by E. Herrigel (translation), Cosmology of Ki by H. Ishida, The Musicking Body (2008) edited by Y. Yamada, and The Body playing the Piano (2003) by Akeo Okada et al.
Abstract The aim of this paper is to clarify some of the fundamental ways of body movement found in Japanese ko-bujutsu or martial arts, which have been mostly lost to modern culture. Ko-bujutsu is described by martial artist Yoshinori Kono, who criticizes modernity. Kono insists that, through bujutsu, one can pursue what human nature means. This understanding came from Kono’s way of life. This functions as significant educational theory in the same way as Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics. Another aspect of Kono’s philosophy is its reference to aesthetic consciousness, which he believes is necessary to serve as the base of new ideas. Kono defines aesthetic consciousness as strong sensations, such as contentedness based on physical feelings of fascination or being drawn to something at only one glance. This aesthetic consciousness serves to support our inner lives. While this could be dismissed as being merely subjective interpretations, for those who seek to advance philosophical discourse, Kono contends that, through ko-bujutsu the world can be improved.
