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Hiroto Egawa

Hiroto Egawa

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Overview

Hiroto Egawa is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan, focusing primarily on medical research within the field of medicine. Their work extensively covers surgery, hepatology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and transplantation, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to clinical and surgical sciences.

Their main subfields of study include:

  • Surgery
  • Hepatology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Transplantation

Egawa's research contributes heavily to topics related to organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, liver disease and transplantation, renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, hepatocellular carcinoma treatment and prognosis, as well as COVID-19 clinical and SARS-CoV-2 research.

Main topics of their work include:

  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Egawa has published in several prominent academic venues with frequent contributions to journals such as:

  • Transplantation
  • Surgical Case Reports
  • Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences
  • Clinical Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Egawa include:

  • COVID-19: A global transplant perspective on successfully navigating a pandemic (2020) in American Journal of Transplantation
  • Expert Consensus Guidelines on Minimally Invasive Donor Hepatectomy for Living Donor Liver Transplantation From Innovation to Implementation (2020) in Annals of Surgery
  • Outcomes of Pediatric Liver Transplantation in Japan: A Report from the Registry of the Japanese Liver Transplantation Society (2021) in Transplantation
  • Improved Mortality, Morbidity, and Long-Term Outcome After Anatomical Hepatectomy With the Glissonean Pedicle Approach in Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma (2020) in Annals of Surgery
  • Preventing Small-for-size Syndrome in Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Guidelines From the ILTS-iLDLT-LTSI Consensus Conference (2023) in Transplantation

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Hideki Ohdan
  • Susumu Eguchi
  • Mureo Kasahara
  • Masakazu Yamamoto
  • Yoshihito Kotera

Best Publications

  • Impact of graft size mismatching on graft prognosis in liver transplantation from living donors.

    Tetsuya Kiuchi;Mureo Kasahara;Kenji Uryuhara;Yukihiro Inomata

  • Right lobe graft in living donor liver transplantation

    Yukihiro Inomata;Shinji Uemoto;Katsuhiro Asonuma;Hiroto Egawa

  • Weaning of immunosuppression in living donor liver transplant recipients.

    Mitsuhisa Takatsuki;Shinji Uemoto;Yukihiro Inomata;Hiroto Egawa

  • Anatomical variations and surgical strategies in right lobe living donor liver transplantation: lessons from 120 cases.

    Taro Nakamura;Koichi Tanaka;Tetsuya Kiuchi;Mureo Kasahara

  • Transmission of hepatitis B virus from hepatitis B core antibody- positive donors in living related liver transplants

    Shinji Uemoto;Kohachiro Sugiyama;Hiroyuki Marusawa;Yukihiro Inomata

  • Biliary Reconstruction in Right Lobe Living-Donor Liver Transplantation: Comparison of Different Techniques in 321 Recipients

    Mureo Kasahara;Hiroto Egawa;Yasutsugu Takada;Fumitaka Oike

  • Expansion of selection criteria for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in living donor liver transplantation.

    Takashi Ito;Yasutsugu Takada;Mikiko Ueda;Hironori Haga

  • Biliary Anastomotic Complications in 400 Living Related Liver Transplantations

    Hiroto Egawa;Yukihiro Inomata;Shinji Uemoto;Katsuhiro Asonuma

  • Duct-to-duct biliary reconstruction in living donor liver transplantation utilizing right lobe graft

    Takatoshi Ishiko;Hiroto Egawa;Mureo Kasahara;Taro Nakamura

  • COVID-19: A global transplant perspective on successfully navigating a pandemic.

    Deepali Kumar;Oriol Manuel;Yoichiro Natori;Hiroto Egawa

  • Present status of ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplantation in Japan.

    Hiroto Egawa;Satoshi Teramukai;Hironori Haga;Minoru Tanabe

  • Impact of recipient age on outcome of ABO-incompatible living-donor liver transplantation.

    Hiroto Egawa;Fumitaka Oike;Leo Buhler;A. M. James Shapiro

  • Hepatic vein reconstruction in 152 living-related donor liver transplantation patients.

    Hiroto Egawa;Yukihiro Inomata;Shinji Uemoto;Katsuhiro Asonuma

  • Outcomes of Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation: A Single Institution's Experience With 335 Consecutive Cases

    Daisuke Morioka;Hiroto Egawa;Mureo Kasahara;Takashi Ito

  • The evolution of immunosuppression with FK506 in pediatric living-related liver transplantation.

    Yukihiro Inomata;Koichi Tanaka;Hiroto Egawa;Shinji Uemoto

  • Progressive graft fibrosis and donor-specific human leukocyte antigen antibodies in pediatric late liver allografts.

    Aya Miyagawa-Hayashino;Atushi Yoshizawa;Yoichiro Uchida;Hiroto Egawa

  • Living donor liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure

    Shinji Uemoto;Yukihiro Inomata;Takaki Sakurai;Hiroto Egawa

  • Apoptosis as a mechanism of cell death in liver allograft rejection.

    Sheri M. Krams;Hiroto Egawa;Maire B. Quinn;Janeth C. Villanueva

  • Liver transplantation in Japan: Registry by the Japanese Liver Transplantation Society

    Koji Umeshita;Susumu Eguchi;Hiroto Egawa;Hironori Haga

  • Hepatic grafts from live donors: donor morbidity for 470 cases of live donation.

    Shiro Fujita;Il‐Deok Kim;Kenji Uryuhara;Katsuhiro Asonuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinji Uemoto
Shinji Uemoto Kyoto University
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka Kyoto University
Masakazu Yamamoto
Masakazu Yamamoto Tohoku University
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka Shimadzu Corp
Tsutomu Chiba
Tsutomu Chiba Kyoto University
Hiroyuki Marusawa
Hiroyuki Marusawa Kyoto University
Ken-ichi Inui
Ken-ichi Inui Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
Satohiro Masuda
Satohiro Masuda Himeji Dokkyo University
Norihiro Kokudo
Norihiro Kokudo National Center For Global Health and Medicine
Yoshihiko Maehara
Yoshihiko Maehara Kyushu University

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