Toyohiro Hirai
Kyoto University
371 Papers
1.1K Citations
Toyohiro Hirai is an academic researcher from Kyoto University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & COPD. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 257 publications. Previous affiliations of Toyohiro Hirai include Nagasaki University & Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
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Papers
•Journal Article
Chest flow during the initial inspiratory phase (V0.1) in pulmonary diseased patients.
Michiaki Mishima,Kenzo Kawakami,Naoki Sakai,Toyohiro Hirai,Motonari Fukui,Yoshitaka Oku,Kazuo Chin,Motoharu Ohi,Kenshi Kuno +8 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that V0.1 is a good index of chest wall acceleration, which is determined by both the neuro-muscular drive and the mechanics of the respiratory system, and IP patients had to exert greater inspiratory effort as compared with the other two groups in order to maintain a similar V 0.1-max.
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Epicardial adipose tissue measured from analysis of adipose tissue area using chest CT imaging is the best potential predictor of COVID-19 severity.
Takahiro Fukushima,Tomoki Maetani,Shotaro Chubachi,Naoya Tanabe,Takanori Asakura,H. Namkoong,Hiromu Tanaka,Takashi Shimada,Shuhei Azekawa,Shiro Otake,Kensuke Nakagawara,Mayuko Watase,Yusuke Shiraishi,Hideki Terai,Mamoru Sasaki,Soichiro Ueda,Yukari Kato,Norihiro Harada,Shoji Suzuki,Shuichi Yoshida,Hiroki Tateno,Yoshitake Yamada,Masahiro Jinzaki,Toyohiro Hirai,Yukinori Okada,Ryuji Koike,Makoto Ishii,Akinori Kimura,Seiya Imoto,Satoru Miyano,Seishi Ogawa,Takanori Kanai,Koichi Fukunaga +32 more
TL;DR: It is indicated that VAT is significantly associated with COVID-19 severity and that EAT is the best potential predictor for risk stratification in CO VID-19 among adipose tissue areas, and new avenues for implementing appropriate body composition assessments based on CT imaging are opened.
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Assessment of serum periostin level as a predictor of requirement for intensive treatment for type-2 inflammation in asthmatics in future: A follow-up study of the KiHAC cohort.
Hironobu Sunadome,Hisako Matsumoto,Yuji Tohda,Takahiko Horiguchi,Hideo Kita,Kazunobu Kuwabara,Keisuke Tomii,Kojiro Otsuka,Masaki Fujimura,Noriyuki Ohkura,Takashi Iwanaga,Soichiro Hozawa,Akio Niimi,Yoshihiro Kanemitsu,Tadao Nagasaki,Noriyuki Tashima,Yumi Ishiyama,Chie Morimoto,Tsuyoshi Oguma,Tomoko Tajiri,Isao Ito,Junya Ono,Shoichiro Ohta,Kenji Izuhara,Toyohiro Hirai +24 more
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