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Kendo Kiyosawa

Kendo Kiyosawa

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Medicine

D-Index
93
Citations
29968
World Ranking
10938
National Ranking
313

Overview

Kendo Kiyosawa is affiliated with Shinshu University in Japan and focuses their research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their subfields of study include Hepatology, Epidemiology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Surgery, and Rheumatology.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Intestinal and Peritoneal Adhesions
  • Uterine Myomas and Treatments

Kiyosawa has published recent papers in various medical journals. Some of the notable papers include:

  • Effectiveness of Glecaprevir/Pibrentasvir for Hepatitis C: Real-World Experience and Clinical Features of Retreatment Cases, 2020, Biomedicines
  • Hepatic Steatosis and High-Normal Fasting Glucose as Risk Factors for Incident Prediabetes, 2022, Journal of the Endocrine Society
  • A case of giant enteric muco-submucosal elongated polyp detected by melena, 2020, Clinical Journal of Gastroenterology
  • A case of refractory cholestatic drug-induced liver injury caused by amoxicillin/clavulanate effectively treated with phenobarbital, 2024, Kanzo
  • The first case of hepatitis E subgenotype 4c causing acute hepatitis E in Nagano Prefecture, 2020, Kanzo

Their publications have appeared frequently in venues such as Kanzo, Journal of the Endocrine Society, Biomedicines, and Clinical Journal of Gastroenterology.

Kiyosawa has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Seiichi Usuda
  • Sumika Oyama
  • Hitomi Fujimoto
  • Norikazu Arakura
  • Akihiro Iijima

Best Publications

  • High serum IgG4 concentrations in patients with sclerosing pancreatitis.

    Hideaki Hamano;Shigeyuki Kawa;Akira Horiuchi;Hiroshi Unno

  • Interrelationship of blood transfusion, non‐A, non‐B hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma: Analysis by detection of antibody to hepatitis C virus

    Kendo Kiyosawa;Takeshi Sodeyama;Eiji Tanaka;Yukio Gibo

  • Hydronephrosis associated with retroperitoneal fibrosis and sclerosing pancreatitis

    Hideaki Hamanou;Shigeyuki Kawa;Yasuhide Ochi;Hiroshi Unno

  • Risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma and its incidence after interferon treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis C

    Akinori Kasahara;Norio Hayashi;Kiyoshi Mochizuki;Masahide Takayanagi

  • Hepatitis C in hospital employees with needlestick injuries.

    Kendo Kiyosawa;Takeshi Sodeyama;Eiji Tanaka;Yoshiyuki Nakano

  • HLA DRB1*0405-DQB1*0401 haplotype is associated with autoimmune pancreatitis in the Japanese population

    Shigeyuki Kawa;Masao Ota;Kaname Yoshizawa;Akira Horiuchi

  • Successful living-related partial liver transplantation to an adult patient

    Yasuhiko Hashikura;Masatoshi Makuuchi;Seiji Kawasaki;Hidetoshi Matsunami

  • Prevalence and distribution of extrapancreatic lesions complicating autoimmune pancreatitis

    Hideaki Hamano;Norikazu Arakura;Takashi Muraki;Yayoi Ozaki

  • Operative morbidity of living liver donors in Japan.

    Koji Umeshita;Kenji Fujiwara;Kendo Kiyosawa;Masatoshi Makuuchi

  • Detection of antibodies to a putative hepatitis G virus envelope protein

    Michael Tacke;Kendo Kiyosawa;Klaus Stark;Volker Schlueter

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma: Recent trends in Japan

    Kendo Kiyosawa;Takeji Umemura;Tetsuya Ichijo;Akihiro Matsumoto

  • Inhibition of NADPH oxidase 4 activates apoptosis via the AKT/apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 pathway in pancreatic cancer PANC-1 cells.

    T Mochizuki;S Furuta;J Mitsushita;W H Shang

  • Immunoglobin G4-hepatopathy: association of immunoglobin G4-bearing plasma cells in liver with autoimmune pancreatitis.

    Takeji Umemura;Yoh Zen;Hideaki Hamano;Shigeyuki Kawa

  • Highly purified eicosapentaenoic acid treatment improves nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

    Naoki Tanaka;Kenji Sano;Akira Horiuchi;Eiji Tanaka

  • Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha protects against alcohol-induced liver damage.

    Tamie Nakajima;Yuji Kamijo;Naoki Tanaka;Eiko Sugiyama

  • Sensitive Enzyme Immunoassay for Hepatitis B Virus Core-Related Antigens and Their Correlation to Virus Load

    Tatsuji Kimura;Akinori Rokuhara;Yoko Sakamoto;Shintaro Yagi

  • Development of a Simple and Highly Sensitive Enzyme Immunoassay for Hepatitis C Virus Core Antigen

    Katsumi Aoyagi;Chiharu Ohue;Kumiko Iida;Tatsuji Kimura

  • The natural course of chronic hepatitis C: A comparison between patients with genotypes 1 and 2 hepatitis C viruses

    M Kobayashi;E Tanaka;T Sodeyama;A Urushihara

  • ERCP features in 27 patients with autoimmune pancreatitis.

    Akira Horiuchi;Shigeyuki Kawa;Hideaki Hamano;Masayoshi Hayama

  • Epidemiology of hepatocellular carcinoma in Japan

    Takeji Umemura;Tetsuya Ichijo;Kaname Yoshizawa;Eiji Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Eiji Tanaka
Eiji Tanaka Shinshu University
Shigeyuki Kawa
Shigeyuki Kawa Matsumoto Dental University
Masao Ota
Masao Ota Shinshu University
Norio Hayashi
Norio Hayashi Osaka University
Hiromitsu Kumada
Hiromitsu Kumada Fukuoka University
Shiro Iino
Shiro Iino St. Marianna University School of Medicine
Yoshihiko Katsuyama
Yoshihiko Katsuyama Shinshu University
Masashi Mizokami
Masashi Mizokami National Center For Global Health and Medicine
Masao Omata
Masao Omata University of Tokyo
Harvey J. Alter
Harvey J. Alter National Institutes of Health

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