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Kazuo Fujihara is affiliated with Fukushima Medical University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on fields within medicine, including pathology and forensic medicine, neurology, rheumatology, immunology, and molecular biology.

The main topics of their work include multiple sclerosis research studies, peripheral neuropathies and disorders, systemic lupus erythematosus research, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, systemic sclerosis and related diseases, CNS lymphoma diagnosis and treatment, and protein tyrosine phosphatases.

Frequent publication venues for Kazuo Fujihara include:

  • Neurology
  • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
  • Journal of the Neurological Sciences
  • The Lancet Neurology
  • Frontiers in Neurology

Frequently collaborating co-authors include:

  • Ichiro Nakashima
  • Tatsuro Misu
  • Masashi Aoki
  • Dean M. Wingerchuk
  • Sean J. Pittock

Recent papers by Kazuo Fujihara include:

  • "Interleukin-6 in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder pathophysiology" (2020, Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation)
  • "Diagnosis of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease: International MOGAD Panel proposed criteria" (2023, The Lancet Neurology)
  • "Myelin-oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease" (2021, The Lancet Neurology)
  • "Epidemiology of Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder and Its Prevalence and Incidence Worldwide" (2020, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • "Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease: an immunopathological study" (2020, Brain)

Best Publications

  • Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 Revisions to the McDonald criteria

    Chris H Polman;Stephen C Reingold;Brenda Banwell;Michel Clanet

  • Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: 2017 revisions of the McDonald criteria

    Alan J. Thompson;Brenda L. Banwell;Frederik Barkhof;Frederik Barkhof;William M. Carroll

  • International consensus diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders

    Dean M. Wingerchuk;Brenda Banwell;Jeffrey L. Bennett;Philippe Cabre

  • A serum autoantibody marker of neuromyelitis optica : distinction from multiple sclerosis

    Vanda A Lennon;Dean M Wingerchuk;Thomas J Kryzer;Sean J Pittock

  • Distinction between MOG antibody-positive and AQP4 antibody-positive NMO spectrum disorders

    Douglas Kazutoshi Sato;Dagoberto Callegaro;Marco Aurelio Lana-Peixoto;Patrick J. Waters

  • Eculizumab in Aquaporin-4-Positive Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder

    Sean J Pittock;Achim Berthele;Kazuo Fujihara;Kazuo Fujihara;Ho Jin Kim

  • Anti-aquaporin-4 antibody is involved in the pathogenesis of NMO: a study on antibody titre.

    Toshiyuki Takahashi;Kazuo Fujihara;Ichiro Nakashima;Tatsuro Misu

  • MOG encephalomyelitis: International recommendations on diagnosis and antibody testing

    S. Jarius;F. Paul;F. Paul;O. Aktas;N. Asgari

  • Loss of aquaporin 4 in lesions of neuromyelitis optica: distinction from multiple sclerosis.

    T. Misu;K. Fujihara;A. Kakita;H. Konno

  • Neuromyelitis optica: pathogenicity of patient immunoglobulin in vivo.

    Monika Bradl;Tatsuro Misu;Toshiyuki Takahashi;Mitsutoshi Watanabe

  • MRI characteristics of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder An international update

    Ho Jin Kim;Friedemann Paul;Marco A. Lana-Peixoto;Silvia Tenembaum

  • Inebilizumab for the treatment of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (N-MOmentum): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled phase 2/3 trial.

    Bruce A C Cree;Jeffrey L Bennett;Ho Jin Kim;Brian G Weinshenker

  • Prognostic factors and disease course in aquaporin-4 antibody-positive patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder from the United Kingdom and Japan

    J Kitley;M I Leite;I Nakashima;P Waters

  • Trial of Satralizumab in Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder

    Takashi Yamamura;Ingo Kleiter;Kazuo Fujihara;Jacqueline Palace

  • MOG antibody–positive, benign, unilateral, cerebral cortical encephalitis with epilepsy

    Ryo Ogawa;Ichiro Nakashima;Toshiyuki Takahashi;Kimihiko Kaneko

  • The pathology of an autoimmune astrocytopathy: lessons learned from neuromyelitis optica.

    Claudia F. Lucchinetti;Yong Guo;Bogdan F. Gh. Popescu;Bogdan F. Gh. Popescu;Kazuo Fujihara

  • Intractable hiccup and nausea with periaqueductal lesions in neuromyelitis optica

    T. Misu;K. Fujihara;I. Nakashima;S. Sato

  • MOG cell-based assay detects non-MS patients with inflammatory neurologic disease

    P Waters;M Woodhall;K C O'Connor;M Reindl

  • Anti-aquaporin-4 antibody is involved in the pathogenesis of NMO : a study on antibody titre. Commentary

    Alastair Compston;Toshiyuki Takahashi;Kazuo Fujihara;Ichiro Nakashima

  • MOG-Enzephalomyelitis: Internationale Empfehlungen zu Diagnose und Antikörpertestung [MOG encephalomyelitis: international recommendations on diagnosis and antibody testing]

    S. Jarius;F. Paul;O. Aktas;N. Asgari

Frequent Co-Authors

Ichiro Nakashima
Ichiro Nakashima Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Yasuto Itoyama
Yasuto Itoyama Tohoku University
Michael J. Levy
Michael J. Levy Harvard Medical School
Sean J. Pittock
Sean J. Pittock Mayo Clinic
Friedemann Paul
Friedemann Paul Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Hans Lassmann
Hans Lassmann Medical University of Vienna
Markus Reindl
Markus Reindl Innsbruck Medical University
Patrick Waters
Patrick Waters University of Oxford

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