Kazuichi Okazaki
Kansai Medical University
609 Papers
2.9K Citations
Kazuichi Okazaki is an academic researcher from Kansai Medical University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Autoimmune pancreatitis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 72, co-authored 588 publications. Previous affiliations of Kazuichi Okazaki include Tenri Hospital & Kyoto University.
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Papers
Amendment of the Japanese Consensus Guidelines for Autoimmune Pancreatitis, 2013 III. Treatment and prognosis of autoimmune pancreatitis
Terumi Kamisawa,Kazuichi Okazaki,Shigeyuki Kawa,Tetsuhide Ito,Kazuo Inui,Hiroyuki Irie,Takayoshi Nishino,Kenji Notohara,Isao Nishimori,Shigeki Tanaka,Toshimasa Nishiyama,Koichi Suda,Keiko Shiratori,Masao Tanaka,Tooru Shimosegawa +14 more
TL;DR: Amendments to the Japanese consensus guidelines for AIP have been proposed for 2013 after evaluation by the moderators.
Effective "short" double-balloon enteroscope for diagnostic and therapeutic ERCP in patients with altered gastrointestinal anatomy: a large case series.
Masaaki Shimatani,M. Matsushita,Makoto Takaoka,Masanori Koyabu,Tsukasa Ikeura,Kota Kato,Toshiro Fukui,Koji Uchida,Kazuichi Okazaki +8 more
TL;DR: Despite the relatively high rate of complications seen in patients with Roux-en-Y reconstruction, ERCP with a "short" DBE is effective in patients who have undergone bowel reconstruction.
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Prevalence of IgG4-Related Disease in Japan Based on Nationwide Survey in 2009.
TL;DR: The number of patients with autoimmune pancreatitis who visited hospitals in Japan in 2007 was approximately 2709 (95% confidence interval; range 2540–3040); because IgG4-related disease is a new clinical entity, there are no data with regard to its prevalence.
Current approach to the diagnosis of IgG4-related disease – Combination of comprehensive diagnostic and organ-specific criteria
Hisanori Umehara,Kazuichi Okazaki,Takuji Nakamura,Tomomi Satoh-Nakamura,Akio Nakajima,Mitsuhiro Kawano,Tsuneyo Mimori,Tsutomu Chiba +7 more
TL;DR: The current optimal approach for the diagnosis of IgG4-RD is described, based on both comprehensive and organ-specific diagnostic criteria, in patients with diseases such as IgG 4-related pancreatitis (AIP), sclerosing cholangitis, and renal, lung and orbital diseases.
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TGF-beta and HGF transmit the signals through JNK-dependent Smad2/3 phosphorylation at the linker regions.
Shigeo Mori,Koichi Matsuzaki,Katsunori Yoshida,Fukiko Furukawa,Yoshiya Tahashi,Hideo Yamagata,Go Sekimoto,Toshihito Seki,Hirofumi Matsui,Mikio Nishizawa,Jun-ichi Fujisawa,Kazuichi Okazaki +11 more
TL;DR: It is shown that either HGF or TGF-β treatment of normal stomach-origin cells activated the JNK pathway, thereafter inducing endogenous R-Smads phosphorylated at linker regions, which were the common phosphorylation sites for HGF and T GF-β signaling pathways.
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