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Masataka Kuwana

Masataka Kuwana

D-Index & Metrics

Immunology

D-Index
99
Citations
33445
World Ranking
755
National Ranking
25

Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
33758
World Ranking
8048
National Ranking
205

Overview

Masataka Kuwana is affiliated with Nippon Medical School in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in the field of medicine, with a focus on systemic autoimmune conditions and related pulmonary complications. Their work spans multiple subfields including pathology and forensic medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, epidemiology, rheumatology, and immunology.

Their research topics predominantly cover systemic sclerosis and related diseases, inflammatory myopathies and dermatomyositis, interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, eosinophilic disorders and syndromes, dermatologic treatments and research, mast cells and histamine, and rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Tocilizumab in systemic sclerosis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial, 2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Efficacy and safety of nintedanib in patients with systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease treated with mycophenolate: a subgroup analysis of the SENSCIS trial, 2021, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Risk Prediction Modeling Based on a Combination of Initial Serum Biomarker Levels in Polymyositis/Dermatomyositis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease, 2020, Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for Chronic Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases With a Progressive Phenotype, 2020, CHEST Journal
  • 2019 Diagnostic criteria for mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD): From the Japan research committee of the ministry of health, labor, and welfare for systemic autoimmune diseases, 2020, Modern Rheumatology

Frequent co-authors in Kuwana's research include Oliver Distler, Lorenzo Cavagna, Latika Gupta, Ashima Makol, and Hector Chinoy, indicating collaborative work across leading experts in related fields.

Their work has appeared in several publication venues, with a significant number of publications in:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Lara D. Veeken
  • Modern Rheumatology
  • Rheumatology International
  • Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders

Masataka Kuwana's scholarly output includes over 630 publications centered in medicine, with approximately 130 focusing on pathology and forensic medicine, over 100 in pulmonary and respiratory medicine as well as epidemiology, and substantial work within rheumatology and immunology.

Best Publications

  • Nintedanib for Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease.

    Oliver Distler;Martina Gahlemann;Toby M Maher

  • Autoantibodies to a 140-kd polypeptide, CADM-140, in Japanese patients with clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis

    Shinji Sato;Michito Hirakata;Masataka Kuwana;Akira Suwa

  • RNA helicase encoded by melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 is a major autoantigen in patients with clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis: Association with rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease

    Shinji Sato;Kana Hoshino;Takashi Satoh;Tomonobu Fujita

  • Tocilizumab in systemic sclerosis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.

    Dinesh Khanna;Celia J F Lin;Daniel E Furst;Jonathan Goldin

  • Mortality in systemic sclerosis: An international meta-analysis of individual patient data

    John P.A. Ioannidis;John P.A. Ioannidis;Panayiotis G. Vlachoyiannopoulos;Anna Bettina Haidich;Thomas A. Medsger

  • Standardization of the modified Rodnan skin score for use in clinical trials of systemic sclerosis

    Dinesh Khanna;Daniel E. Furst;Philip J. Clements;Yannick Allanore

  • Human circulating CD14+ monocytes as a source of progenitors that exhibit mesenchymal cell differentiation

    Masataka Kuwana;Yuka Okazaki;Hiroaki Kodama;Keisuke Izumi

  • Common and distinct clinical features in adult patients with anti-aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase antibodies: heterogeneity within the syndrome.

    Yasuhito Hamaguchi;Manabu Fujimoto;Takashi Matsushita;Kenzo Kaji

  • Clinical correlations with dermatomyositis-specific autoantibodies in adult Japanese patients with dermatomyositis: a multicenter cross-sectional study.

    Yasuhito Hamaguchi;Masataka Kuwana;Kana Hoshino;Minoru Hasegawa

  • Defective vasculogenesis in systemic sclerosis

    Masataka Kuwana;Yuka Okazaki;Hidekata Yasuoka;Yutaka Kawakami

  • Anti-MDA5 antibody, ferritin and IL-18 are useful for the evaluation of response to treatment in interstitial lung disease with anti-MDA5 antibody-positive dermatomyositis

    Takahisa Gono;Shinji Sato;Yasushi Kawaguchi;Masataka Kuwana

  • Clinical manifestation and prognostic factor in anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 antibody-associated interstitial lung disease as a complication of dermatomyositis

    Takahisa Gono;Yasushi Kawaguchi;Takashi Satoh;Masataka Kuwana

  • Clinical and Prognostic Associations Based on Serum Antinuclear Antibodies in Japanese Patients with Systemic Sclerosis

    Masataka Kuwana;Junichi Kaburaki;Yutaka Okano;Takeshi Tojo

  • The diagnostic utility of anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 antibody testing for predicting the prognosis of Japanese patients with DM.

    Tomohiro Koga;Keita Fujikawa;Yoshiro Horai;Akitomo Okada

  • Autologous serum eye drops for the treatment of severe dry eye in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease

    Y Ogawa;S Okamoto;T Mori;M Yamada

  • Pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis: recent insights of molecular and cellular mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities:

    John Varga;Maria Trojanowska;Masataka Kuwana

  • Autoreactive T cells to platelet GPIIb-IIIa in immune thrombocytopenic purpura. Role in production of anti-platelet autoantibody.

    M Kuwana;J Kaburaki;Y Ikeda

  • Utility of Anti–Melanoma Differentiation–Associated Gene 5 Antibody Measurement in Identifying Patients With Dermatomyositis and a High Risk for Developing Rapidly Progressive Interstitial Lung Disease: A Review of the Literature and a Meta-Analysis

    Zhiyong Chen;Mengshu Cao;Maria Nieves Plana;Jun Liang

  • Anti-NXP2 autoantibodies in adult patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: possible association with malignancy

    Yuki Ichimura;Takashi Matsushita;Yasuhito Hamaguchi;Kenzo Kaji

  • Anti-Melanoma Differentiation-Associated Gene 5 Is Associated With Rapidly Progressive Lung Disease and Poor Survival in US Patients With Amyopathic and Myopathic Dermatomyositis.

    Siamak Moghadam-Kia;Chester V. Oddis;Shinji Sato;Masataka Kuwana

  • Dry eye as a major complication associated with chronic graft-versus-host disease after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

    Yoko Ogawa;Masataka Kuwana

Frequent Co-Authors

Yutaka Kawakami
Yutaka Kawakami International University Of Health And Welfare Atami Hospital
Yasuo Ikeda
Yasuo Ikeda Waseda University
Tsutomu Takeuchi
Tsutomu Takeuchi Keio University
Oliver Distler
Oliver Distler University of Zurich
Tsuneyo Mimori
Tsuneyo Mimori Kyoto University
Manabu Fujimoto
Manabu Fujimoto Osaka University
Kazuhiko Takehara
Kazuhiko Takehara Kanazawa University
Yasushi Kawaguchi
Yasushi Kawaguchi University of Tokyo
Yannick Allanore
Yannick Allanore Université Paris Cité
Shinichi Sato
Shinichi Sato University of Tokyo

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