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Hikaru Matsuda

Hikaru Matsuda

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Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
29701
World Ranking
14042
National Ranking
419

Overview

Hikaru Matsuda is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and focuses on research within the field of medicine, with particular emphasis on surgery, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and biomedical engineering. Their work intersects multiple subfields, including epidemiology and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The main topics covered by Matsuda's research include:

  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
  • Congenital Heart Disease Studies
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
  • Surgical Simulation and Training
  • Anatomy and Medical Technology

Matsuda has contributed to a range of peer-reviewed publications, with recent papers including:

  • Development of ventricular assist device and heart transplantation in Japan: How people worked, 2020, Artificial Organs
  • JCS 2022 Guideline on Management and Re-Interventional Therapy in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Long-Term After Initial Repair, 2022, Circulation Journal
  • Efficacy of simulation training for beating heart coronary anastomosis using BEAT + YOUCAN simulator, 2021, Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
  • EE180 Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir Compared With Molnupiravir in Patients at High Risk for Progression to Severe COVID-19 in Japan, 2024, Value in Health
  • Beneficial effects of balloon pulmonary angioplasty on clinical outcomes in patients with residual pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary endarterectomy, 2020, European Heart Journal

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Matsuda include:

  • Hideo Ohuchi
  • Masaaki Kawata
  • Hideki Uemura
  • Teiji Akagi
  • Atsushi Yao

The main journals where Matsuda's work has appeared include:

  • Circulation Journal
  • Artificial Organs
  • Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
  • Value in Health
  • European Heart Journal

Best Publications

  • Bax interacts with the permeability transition pore to induce permeability transition and cytochrome c release in isolated mitochondria

    Masashi Narita;Shigeomi Shimizu;Toshinori Ito;Thomas Chittenden

  • Prevention of hypoxia-induced cell death by Bcl-2 and Bcl-xL

    Shigeomi Shimizu;Yutaka Eguchi;Hiroaki Kosaka;Wataru Kamiike

  • Effect of c-kit mutation on prognosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

    Masahiko Taniguchi;Toshirou Nishida;Seiichi Hirota;Koji Isozaki

  • FAMILIAL GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOURS WITH GERMLINE MUTATION OF THE KIT GENE

    Toshirou Nishida;Seiichi Hirota;Masahiko Taniguchi;Koji Hashimoto

  • The World Health Organization histologic classification system reflects the oncologic behavior of thymoma: a clinical study of 273 patients.

    Meinoshin Okumura;Mitsunori Ohta;Hisashi Tateyama;Katsuhiro Nakagawa

  • Induction of apoptosis as well as necrosis by hypoxia and predominant prevention of apoptosis by Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL.

    Shigeomi Shimizu;Yutaka Eguchi;Wataru Kamiike;Yuko Itoh

  • New graft-implanting method for thoracic aortic aneurysm or dissection with a stented graft.

    Kato M;Ohnishi K;Kaneko M;Ueda T

  • A Truncated β-Catenin Disrupts the Interaction between E-Cadherin and α-Catenin: A Cause of Loss of Intercellular Adhesiveness in Human Cancer Cell Lines

    Tsukasa Oyama;Yae Kanai;Atsushi Ochiai;Shingo Akimoto

  • Repair of impaired myocardium by means of implantation of engineered autologous myoblast sheets.

    Imran A. Memon;Yoshiki Sawa;Norihide Fukushima;Goro Matsumiya

  • Benefits of surgery for patients with pulmonary metastases from colorectal carcinoma

    Masayoshi Inoue;Mitsunori Ohta;Keiji Iuchi;Akihide Matsumura

  • Retardation of chemical hypoxia-induced necrotic cell death by Bcl-2 and ICE inhibitors: possible involvement of common mediators in apoptotic and necrotic signal transductions.

    Shimizu S;Eguchi Y;Kamiike W;Waguri S

  • Clinical Spectrum of Mediastinal Cysts

    Shin Ichi Takeda;Shinichiro Miyoshi;Masato Minami;Mitsunori Ohta

  • Total cavopulmonary shunt operation in complex cardiac anomalies. A new operation.

    Yasunaru Kawashima;Soichiro Kitamura;Hikaru Matsuda;Yasuhisa Shimazaki

  • Safety evaluation of clinical gene therapy using hepatocyte growth factor to treat peripheral arterial disease.

    Ryuichi Morishita;Motokuni Aoki;Naotaka Hashiya;Hirofumi Makino

  • Optimal distance of malignant negative margin in excision of nonsmall cell lung cancer: A multicenter prospective study

    Noriyoshi Sawabata;Mitsunori Ohta;Akihide Matsumura;Katsuhiro Nakagawa

  • Tissue cardiomyoplasty using bioengineered contractile cardiomyocyte sheets to repair damaged myocardium: their integration with recipient myocardium.

    Shigeru Miyagawa;Yoshiki Sawa;Satoru Sakakida;Satoshi Taketani

  • Primary germ cell tumors in the mediastinum: a 50-year experience at a single Japanese institution.

    Shin Ichi Takeda;Shinichiro Miyoshi;Mitsunori Ohta;Masato Minami

  • Involvement of CPP32/Yama(-like) Proteases in Fas-mediated Apoptosis

    Jun-ichi Hasegawa;Shinji Kamada;Wataru Kamiike;Shigeomi Shimizu

  • In vivo gene transfection with heat shock protein 70 enhances myocardial tolerance to ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat.

    Ken Suzuki;Yoshiki Sawa;Yasufumi Kaneda;Hajime Ichikawa

  • BCL-2 PREVENTS CASPASE-INDEPENDENT CELL DEATH

    Shin-ichiro Okuno;Shigeomi Shimizu;Toshinori Ito;Masaya Nomura

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshiki Sawa
Yoshiki Sawa Osaka University
Meinoshin Okumura
Meinoshin Okumura Osaka University
Shin'ichi Takeda
Shin'ichi Takeda National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
Soichiro Kitamura
Soichiro Kitamura National Archives and Records Administration
Shigeomi Shimizu
Shigeomi Shimizu Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Yasufumi Kaneda
Yasufumi Kaneda Osaka University
Yoshitaka Fujii
Yoshitaka Fujii Nagoya City University
Yoshihide Tsujimoto
Yoshihide Tsujimoto Osaka University
Toshikazu Nakamura
Toshikazu Nakamura Osaka University
Ryuichi Morishita
Ryuichi Morishita Osaka University

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