著者

Hideo Ohuchi Masaaki Kawata Hideki Uemura Teiji Akagi Atsushi Yao Hideaki Senzaki Shingo Kasahara Hajime Ichikawa Hirohiko Motoki Morio Syoda Hisashi Sugiyama Hiroyuki Tsutsui Kei Inai Takaaki Suzuki Kisaburo Sakamoto Syunsuke Tatebe Tomoko Ishizu Yumi Shiina Shigeru Tateno Aya Miyazaki Norihisa Toh Ichiro Sakamoto Chisato Izumi Yoshiko Mizuno Atsuko Kato Koichi Sagawa Ryota Ochiai Fukiko Ichida Takeshi Kimura Hikaru Matsuda Koichiro Niwa on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society Joint Working Group

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.CJ-22-0134, (Released:2022-08-31)

参考文献数

1071

被引用文献数

6

著者

Yoshiaki Okuma Kenji Suda Hideyuki Nakaoka Yasuhiro Katsube Yoshihide Mitani Yukako Yoshikane Fukiko Ichida Takeji Matsushita Hiroyuki Shichino Isao Shiraishi Jun Abe Michiaki Hiroe Toshimichi Yoshida Kyoko Imanaka-Yoshida

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.80, no.11, pp.2376-2381, 2016-10-25 (Released:2016-10-25)

参考文献数

46

被引用文献数

23 25

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Background:Tenascin-C (TN-C) is an extracellular matrix glycoprotein that is heavily upregulated at sites of inflammation. We conducted a retrospective study to assess the utility of TN-C as a novel biomarker to predict the risk of developing coronary artery lesions (CAL) and resistance to intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) in patients with Kawasaki disease (KD).Methods and Results:We collected blood samples of 111 KD patients (IVIG-responder: 89, IVIG-resistant: 22; CAL: 8) and 23 healthy controls, and measured the serum levels of TN-C. TN-C levels on admission were significantly higher in patients than in healthy controls and in patients during convalescence after IVIG administration (69.6 vs. 20.4 vs. 39.7 ng/ml, respectively; P<0.001), and correlated positively with C-reactive protein (P<0.001), neutrophil (percentage; P=0.005), and ALT (P<0.001), and negatively with platelet count (P=0.023) and sodium level (P=0.025). On admission, TN-C levels in patients who later developed CAL were significantly higher than in those without CAL (P=0.010), and significantly higher in IVIG-resistant subjects than in IVIG-responders (P=0.003). The accuracy of TN-C testing for the prediction of IVIG resistance was comparable to that of the Kobayashi score.Conclusions:Serum TN-C could be a biomarker for predicting the risk of developing CAL and IVIG resistance during the acute phase of KD. (Circ J 2016; 80: 2376–2381)

著者

Kazutaka Aonuma Tsuyoshi Shiga Hirotsugu Atarashi Kosuke Doki Hirotoshi Echizen Nobuhisa Hagiwara Junichi Hasegawa Hideharu Hayashi Kenzo Hirao Fukiko Ichida Takanori Ikeda Yorinobu Maeda Naoki Matsumoto Toshiyuki Sakaeda Wataru Shimizu Mitsuru Sugawara Kyoichi Totsuka Yoshimasa Tsuchishita Kazuyuki Ueno Eiichi Watanabe Masayuki Hashiguchi Sumio Hirata Hidefumi Kasai Yoshiaki Matsumoto Akihiko Nogami Yukio Sekiguchi Tokuko Shinohara Atsushi Sugiyama Naokata Sumitomo Atsushi Suzuki Naohiko Takahashi Eiji Yukawa Masato Homma Minoru Horie Hiroshi Inoue Hiroshi Ito Takanori Miura Tohru Ohe Kimikazu Shinozaki Kazuhiko Tanaka on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society and the Japanese Society of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Joint Working Group

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.81, no.4, pp.581-612, 2017-03-24 (Released:2017-03-24)

参考文献数

185

被引用文献数

33

著者

Hiroyuki Matsuura Fukiko Ichida Tsutomu Saji Shunichi Ogawa Kenji Waki Masahide Kaneko Masahiro Tahara Takashi Soga Yasuo Ono Satoshi Yasukochi

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.80, no.11, pp.2362-2368, 2016-10-25 (Released:2016-10-25)

参考文献数

24

被引用文献数

52 55

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Background:The 1st nationwide survey by the Japanese Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of acute or fulminant myocarditis (AMC/FMC) in children revealed that the survival rate of FMC was only 51.6%. The 2nd nationwide survey was performed to evaluate the recent outcomes of pediatric myocarditis.Methods and Results:Questionnaires regarding patients aged ≤18 years with AMC/FMC during the period from January 2006 to December 2011 were mailed. A total of 221 cases (age 6.5±5.3 years, 116 boys and 105 girls) were reported. There were 145 (65.6%) and 74 cases (33.5%) of AMC/FMC, respectively; the type of myocarditis was not reported in the remaining 2 cases (0.9%). Viruses were identified in 56 cases (25.3%), including coxsackie B in 9 and influenza A in 8. Histopathology by either endomyocardial biopsy or autopsy was obtained in 38 cases (19.2%). Intravenous immunoglobulin was effective in 49 (34.3%) of 143 cases. Steroid therapy was effective in 20 (32.8%) of 61 cases. Mechanical circulatory support was given in 54 cases (24.4%) and 94.2% of them were patients with FMC. The survival rates for the whole study population, acute myocarditis, and FMC were 75.6%, 91.0%, and 48.6%, respectively.Conclusions:The survival rate of children with myocarditis was almost identical to that of 10 years ago. (Circ J 2016; 80: 2362–2368)

著者

Hideo Ohuchi Masaaki Kawata Hideki Uemura Teiji Akagi Atsushi Yao Hideaki Senzaki Shingo Kasahara Hajime Ichikawa Hirohiko Motoki Morio Syoda Hisashi Sugiyama Hiroyuki Tsutsui Kei Inai Takaaki Suzuki Kisaburo Sakamoto Syunsuke Tatebe Tomoko Ishizu Yumi Shiina Shigeru Tateno Aya Miyazaki Norihisa Toh Ichiro Sakamoto Chisato Izumi Yoshiko Mizuno Atsuko Kato Koichi Sagawa Ryota Ochiai Fukiko Ichida Takeshi Kimura Hikaru Matsuda Koichiro Niwa on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society Joint Working Group

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.86, no.10, pp.1591-1690, 2022-09-22 (Released:2022-09-22)

参考文献数

1071

被引用文献数

6

著者

Ayane Mito Keiichi Hirono Haruka Ide Sayaka Ozawa Fukiko Ichida Masato Taguchi

出版者

The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

雑誌

Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin (ISSN:09186158)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.45, no.6, pp.703-708, 2022-06-01 (Released:2022-06-01)

参考文献数

25

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We encountered cases in which the anticoagulant effects of warfarin (CYP2C9 substrate) were reversibly attenuated by the concomitant administration of rifampicin or bosentan, which are potent pregnane X receptor (PXR) ligands. The purpose of the present study is to report the previous case with rifampicin, and to evaluate the changes in the warfarin anticoagulant effects when withdrawing or switching bosentan treatment. The former is a case study of a 4-year-old girl undergoing warfarin treatment. The latter is a longitudinal study of 20 pediatric patients receiving stable warfarin treatment. The prothrombin time and international normalized ratio (PT-INR) values were extracted from the medical records and normalized by the daily-dose per body size as an index for the warfarin anticoagulant effects. Rifampicin treatment resulted in a 52.0% decrease in the anticoagulant index. On the other hand, 10 of 20 patients started bosentan and their anticoagulant index was reduced by a median of 2.00. Bosentan was withdrawn in 4 of 20 patients and their anticoagulant index increased by a median of 3.67. Six of 20 patients switched from bosentan to macitentan, which is considered not to activate PXR in clinical settings. However, switching from bosentan to macitentan resulted in a median of 2.25 reduction of the anticoagulant index rather than recovery of the response to warfarin. This study suggests not only the possibility of heterogeneity in the response to PXR activation and deactivation, but also the importance of long-term monitoring of drug–drug interactions when switching from bosentan to macitentan.

著者

Nanami Shigetomi Kenta Kamiya Toru Takamori Naoki Yoshimura Sayaka Ozawa Keiichi Hirono Fukiko Ichida Masato Taguchi

出版者

The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

雑誌

Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin (ISSN:09186158)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.42, no.1, pp.110-115, 2019-01-01 (Released:2019-01-01)

参考文献数

23

被引用文献数

2

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The purpose of this study was to determine the serum protein binding of tadalafil in children with protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) and to evaluate the specific binding of the drug to human serum-derived proteins in vitro. Seventeen serum samples from two PLE patients used after biochemical tests were collected, and the unbound fraction of tadalafil was determined by an ultrafiltration method. The serum albumin concentrations observed in patients #1 and #2 were 2.4–4.2 and 2.9–3.5 g/dL, respectively. The ranges of unbound fraction of tadalafil in patients #1 and #2 were 3.9–13 and 5.0–7.0%, respectively. This suggested that serum albumin was at least a binding carrier for tadalafil because the unbound fraction of tadalafil and serum albumin were slightly correlated. The unbound fraction of tadalafil at the total concentration of 300 ng/mL was negatively dependent on the serum albumin concentration (range: 1.0–5.0 g/dL) in vitro. In the presence of albumin, the additive effect of γ-globulin on the unbound fraction of tadalafil was marginal, but the addition of α1-acid glycoprotein to test samples decreased the unbound fraction of the drug. The decrease in the unbound fraction of tadalafil was greater at low albumin levels (2 g/dL). The addition of lipoprotein to test samples also decreased the unbound fraction of tadalafil, suggesting that lipoprotein was also a binding carrier of the drug. These results suggested that the disposition and/or response to tadalafil in PLE patients was altered by the change in protein bindings of the drug.

著者

Keiichi Hirono Yukiko Hata Makoto Nakazawa Nobuo Momoi Tohru Tsuji Taro Matsuoka Mamoru Ayusawa Yuriko Abe Tamaki Hayashi Nobuyuki Tsujii Tadaaki Abe Heima Sakaguchi Ce Wang Asami Takasaki Shinya Takarada Mako Okabe Nariaki Miyao Hideyuki Nakaoka Keijiro Ibuki Kazuyoshi Saito Sayaka Ozawa Naoki Nishida Neil E. Bowles Fukiko Ichida

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.CJ-18-0470, (Released:2018-08-18)

参考文献数

37

被引用文献数

7

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Background: Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC) is a cardiomyopathy morphologically characterized by 2-layered myocardium and numerous prominent trabeculations, and is often associated with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Variants in the gene encoding tafazzin (TAZ) may change mitochondrial function and cause dysfunction of many organs, but they also contribute to the DCM phenotype in LVNC, and the clinical and echocardiographic features of children with this phenotype are poorly understood. Methods and Results: We enrolled 92 DCM phenotype LVNC patients and performed next-generation sequencing to identify the genetic etiology. Ten TAZ variants were identified in 15 male patients (16.3%) of the 92 patients, including 3 novel missense substitutions. The patients with TAZ variants had a higher frequency of early onset of disease (92.3% vs. 62.3%, P=0.0182), positive family history (73.3% vs. 20.8%, P=0.0001), and higher LV posterior wall thickness Z-score (8.55±2.60 vs. 5.81±2.56, P=0.0103) than those without TAZ variants, although the mortality of both groups was similar. Conclusions: This study provides new insight into the impact of DCM phenotype LVNC and emphasizes the clinical advantages available for LVNC patients with TAZ variants.