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Shinji Uemoto

Shinji Uemoto

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Medicine

D-Index
105
Citations
44951
World Ranking
6722
National Ranking
156

Overview

Shinji Uemoto is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly in surgery, hepatology, and oncology. Their body of work is centered on areas such as organ transplantation techniques and outcomes, liver disease and transplantation, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, and the diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases.

Uemoto's research topics include:

  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Liver Disease and Transplantation
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
  • Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies
  • Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances

Their publications span multiple prestigious venues, reflecting a consistent focus on hepatobiliary surgery and oncology. Frequent publication venues include:

  • HPB
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences
  • Annals of Surgical Oncology
  • Transplantation

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Uemoto are:

  • Liver Regeneration after Hepatectomy and Partial Liver Transplantation (2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • JNETS Clinical Practice Guidelines for Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Follow-Up: A Synopsis (2021, Journal of Gastroenterology)
  • Recent Epidemiology of Patients with Gastro-entero-pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (GEP-NEN) in Japan: A Population-Based Study (2020, BMC Cancer)
  • Laparoscopic Liver Resection versus Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation for Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma (2020, HPB)
  • Clinicopathological Characteristics of Intraductal Papillary Neoplasm of the Bile Duct: A Japan-Korea Collaborative Study (2020, Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences)

Uemoto has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, strengthening multi-disciplinary ties in their field. Prominent co-authors include:

  • Kojiro Taura
  • Toshihiko Masui
  • Satoru Seo
  • Shintaro Yagi
  • Toshimi Kaido

In terms of academic fields, the main discipline of Uemoto's work is Medicine, with a substantial focus on several subfields:

  • Surgery
  • Hepatology
  • Oncology
  • Epidemiology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Best Publications

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

    Tetsuya Kiuchi;Mureo Kasahara;Kenji Uryuhara;Yukihiro Inomata

  • Continuous cell supply from a Sox9-expressing progenitor zone in adult liver, exocrine pancreas and intestine

    Kenichiro Furuyama;Yoshiya Kawaguchi;Haruhiko Akiyama;Masashi Horiguchi

  • Surgical techniques and innovations in living related liver transplantation.

    K Tanaka;S Uemoto;Y Tokunaga;S Fujita

  • Hepatopulmonary syndrome and portopulmonary hypertension: a report of the multicenter liver transplant database.

    Michael J. Krowka;M. Susan Mandell;Michael A.E. Ramsay;Steve M. Kawut

  • Right lobe graft in living donor liver transplantation

    Yukihiro Inomata;Shinji Uemoto;Katsuhiro Asonuma;Hiroto Egawa

  • Proposal for new diagnostic criteria for low skeletal muscle mass based on computed tomography imaging in Asian adults.

    Yuhei Hamaguchi;Toshimi Kaido;Shinya Okumura;Atsushi Kobayashi

  • Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: The Japan Society of Hepatology 2013 update (3rd JSH-HCC Guidelines)

    Norihiro Kokudo;Kiyoshi Hasegawa;Masaaki Akahane;Hiroshi Igaki

  • Impact of sarcopenia on survival in patients undergoing living donor liver transplantation.

    T Kaido;K Ogawa;Y Fujimoto;Y Ogura

  • Expression of OATP1B3 determines uptake of Gd-EOB-DTPA in hepatocellular carcinoma.

    Masato Narita;Etsuro Hatano;Shigeki Arizono;Aya Miyagawa-Hayashino

  • 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

  • Latent hepatitis B virus infection in healthy individuals with antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen.

    Hiroyuki Marusawa;Shinji Uemoto;Makoto Hijikata;Yoshihide Ueda

  • 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

  • Donor-dependent variations in hepatic differentiation from human-induced pluripotent stem cells

    Masatoshi Kajiwara;Takashi Aoi;Keisuke Okita;Ryosuke Takahashi

  • Genome-wide association study identifies TNFSF15 and POU2AF1 as susceptibility loci for primary biliary cirrhosis in the Japanese population.

    Minoru Nakamura;Nao Nishida;Minae Kawashima;Yoshihiro Aiba

  • Hepatic Stellate Cells Secrete Angiopoietin 1 That Induces Angiogenesis in Liver Fibrosis

    Kojiro Taura;Kojiro Taura;Samuele De Minicis;Ekihiro Seki;Etsuro Hatano

  • Plasma concentrations and importance of High Mobility Group Box protein in the prognosis of organ failure in patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation.

    Tsuyoshi Hatada;Hideo Wada;Tsutomu Nobori;Kazuhiro Okabayashi

  • Impact of quality as well as quantity of skeletal muscle on outcomes after liver transplantation

    Yuhei Hamaguchi;Toshimi Kaido;Shinya Okumura;Yasuhiro Fujimoto

  • Impact of preoperative quality as well as quantity of skeletal muscle on survival after resection of pancreatic cancer.

    Shinya Okumura;Toshimi Kaido;Yuhei Hamaguchi;Yasuhiro Fujimoto

  • Long-term and perioperative outcomes of laparoscopic versus open liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma with propensity score matching: a multi-institutional Japanese study.

    Takeshi Takahara;Go Wakabayashi;Toru Beppu;Arihiro Aihara

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroto Egawa
Hiroto Egawa Kyoto University
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka Kyoto University
Tsutomu Chiba
Tsutomu Chiba Kyoto University
Satohiro Masuda
Satohiro Masuda Himeji Dokkyo University
Hiroyuki Marusawa
Hiroyuki Marusawa Kyoto University
Norihiro Kokudo
Norihiro Kokudo National Center For Global Health and Medicine
Ken-ichi Inui
Ken-ichi Inui Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
Eiji Kobayashi
Eiji Kobayashi Keio University
Yoshihiko Maehara
Yoshihiko Maehara Kyushu University
Koichi Tanaka
Koichi Tanaka Shimadzu Corp

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