[History of the histological staining survey in the Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital].

The Tokyo metropolitan hospital society of chief medical technologist has carried out a staining survey once a year since 1992. This staining survey is performed to plan improvements of the staining technology at each hospital and reduction of differences among hospitals. This report describes the examination results for PAS stain, Papanicolaou stain, and PAM stain.

Hypertrophic non-obstructive cardiomyopathy with aortic and mitral regurgitation: an unusual presentation for surgical option.

The case is described of a pediatric patient with hypertrophic non-obstructive cardiomyopathy (HNCM) presenting with aortic and mitral regurgitation. This 17-year-old boy had been followed for HNCM since he was aged 4 years. Serial echocardiography had been showing the emergence and progression of aortic regurgitation and mitral regurgitation since the patient was aged 6 years. He started to have syncope attacks at 16 years of age and fell into congestive heart failure at 17 years. He underwent successful mitral valve repair by means of double-orifice technique, and aortic valve repair with raphe triangular resection, cusp plication and subvalvular annuloplasty.