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    Surgical treatment of infective endocarditis with massive vegetations in a patient with a ventricular septal defect and atopic dermatitis: a case report

    It is well known that congenital heart disease, especially a ventricular septal defect, is associated with a high risk of infective endocarditis. There are few reports of infective endocarditis with vegetation...

    Yuta Kitagata, Hiroshi Tsuneyoshi, Kenta Ito in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surger… (2023)

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    Simplified primum ASD closure technique in complete VSD repair: shallow suture crossing on the AV node

    The primum atrial septal defect suture line adjacent to the crux is performed carefully with various techniques to avoid atrioventricular block in repair of complete atrioventricular septal defect. We describe...

    Hiroshi Koshiyama, Motonori Ishidou in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2023)

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    Fatal septic embolism due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis-induced bacteremia

    Staphylococcus lugdunensis infective endocarditis (IE) is very rare in children. A female neonote presented with fever on the 29th postoperative day after undergoing a modified Norwood procedure (right ventricula...

    Motonori Ishidou, Kazuyoshi Kanno in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2021)

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    Complete repair with unifocalization of the only unilateral lung

    A boy with 22q11.2 deletion was diagnosed with pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect (PAVSD) and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (MAPCAs). At 8 months, unifocalization of left MAPCAs and BT...

    Motonori Ishidou, Keisuke Ota in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2020)

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    The long-term outcomes of physiologic repair for ccTGA (congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries)

    The short-term outcome of physiologic repair for congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) is generally considered favorable; however, the long-term outcome is the greatest problem, es...

    Keiichi Hirose, Takeshi Nishina in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2015)

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    Suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula

    We report preventive innominate artery division or ligation through a suprasternal approach for impending tracheo-innominate artery fistula (TIF) with recurrent airway oozing in patients with severe neuromuscu...

    Yoshifumi Fujimoto, Keiichi Hirose in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2010)

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    A novel approach to reduce catheter-related infection using sustained-release basic fibroblast growth factor for tissue regeneration in mice

    Catheter-related infection is one of the most serious complications. Microbes migrate along the catheter (the foreign material) from the wound at the insertion-site, leading to catheter-related infection. Basi...

    Keiichi Hirose, Akira Marui, Yoshio Arai, Takamasa Nomura, Kozo Kaneda in Heart and Vessels (2007)

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    Enhanced angiogenesis by gelatin hydrogels incorporating basic fibroblast growth factor in rabbit model of hind limb ischemia

    Recently we have developed new sustained release system of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) using gelatin hydrogel as a carrier. Using this system, we examined the effect of topical sustained release of b...

    Kazuhiko Doi, Tadashi Ikeda, Akira Marui, Toshihiro Kushibiki in Heart and Vessels (2007)

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    The Convergence Rate of Fixed-Width Sequential Confidence Intervals for a Parameter of an Exponential Distribution

    In this paper we consider sequential fixed-width confidence interval estimation for a parameter τ = aµ + bσ with a and b being given constants when the location parameter µ and the scale parameter σ of the neg...

    Keiichi Hirose, Eiichi Isogai, Chikara Uno in Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mat… (1997)

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    A Mobile Agent-Oriented Approach to a Distributed Design Support System

    The quality of an architectural design is evaluated from diverse aspects. Application programs that evaluate the quality from a specific aspect have been developed independent of each other. It is one approach...

    Haruyuki Fujii, Shoichi Nakai, Hiroshi Katukura in Artificial Intelligence in Design ’96 (1996)