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    Intravenous abatacept in Japanese patients with polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis: results from a phase III open-label study

    To investigate efficacy and safety of intravenous abatacept in Japanese patients with active polyarticular-course juvenile idiopathic arthritis (pJIA).

    Ryoki Hara, Hiroaki Umebayashi, Syuji Takei, Nami Okamoto in Pediatric Rheumatology (2019)

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    Update of the japanese national registry of pediatric rheumatic disease

    Ken-Ichi Yamagchi, Yasuhito Nerome, Tomoyuki Imagawa in Pediatric Rheumatology (2014)

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    Tocilizumab-effects on growth impairment in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis

    Takako Miyamae, Tomo Nozawa, Masako Kikuchi, Toshitaka Kizawa in Pediatric Rheumatology (2011)

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    Correlation between clinical indices and findings of joint ultrasonography in juvenile idiopathic arthritis with adalimumab therapy

    Ryoki Hara, Tomoyuki Imagawa, Takuma Hara, Masako Kikuchi in Pediatric Rheumatology (2011)

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    PET assessment of disease activity in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

    The degree of 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake is previously reported to correlate with physical examination and laboratory tests for evaluating disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The cl...

    Ukihide Tateishi, Tomoyuki Imagawa, Noriko Kanezawa, Tetsuhiko Okabe in Pediatric Radiology (2010)

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    Effect of anakinra on arthropathy in CINCA/NOMID syndrome

    CINCA/NOMID is an autoinflammatory disorder characterized by the triad of neonatal onset of cutaneous symptoms, chronic meningitis, and recurrent fever and it presents with distinctive osteoarthropathy, synovi...

    Takako Miyamae, Yutaka Inaba, Gen Nishimura, Masako Kikuchi in Pediatric Rheumatology (2010)

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    Efficacy of thalidomide in a girl with inflammatory calcinosis, a severe complication of juvenile dermatomyositis

    We report a 14-year-old girl with juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) complicated by severe inflammatory calcinosis successfully treated with thalidomide. She was diagnosed as JDM when she was 4 years old after a f...

    Takako Miyamae, Fumie Sano, Remi Ozawa, Tomoyuki Imagawa in Pediatric Rheumatology (2010)

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    Mizoribine for renal sarcoidosis: effective steroid tapering and prevention of recurrence

    Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease of unknown etiology that is characterized by chronic non-caseating granulomatous inflammation with tissue destruction. It is an uncommon disease in children, and renal sarcoid...

    Shuichi Ito, Tomonori Harada, Tomoko Nakamura, Tomoyuki Imagawa in Pediatric Nephrology (2009)

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    Plasma exchange for refractory Kawasaki disease

    Tomoyuki Imagawa, Masaaki Mori, Takako Miyamae in European Journal of Pediatrics (2004)

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    Two-generation Kawasaki Disease: Mother and Daugher

    Evidence that the incidence of Kawasaki disease (KD) in siblings is much higher than general incidence, indicates that genetic factors may contribute to the susceptibility. We report a girl with KD whose mothe...

    Masaaki Mori, Rumiko Kurosawa, Takako Miyamae, Tomoyuki Imagawa in Pediatric Research (2003)

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    Effect of Plasma Exchange in Kawasaki Disease Refractory to High Dose Intravenous Gammaglobulin Therapy

    Background: In Kawasaki disease (KD), administration of intravenous gammma-globulin (IVGG) reduced frequency of coronary artery lesion (CAL) from 25% to 8%. However, approximately 500 children still develop CAL e...

    Takako Miyamae, Tomoyuki Imagawa, Shuichi Ito, Masaaki Mori in Pediatric Research (2003)

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    Hypercytokinemia is Not Originated from Peripheral Mononuclear Cells at Acute Phase of Kawasaki Disease

    Immune activation and generalized vasculitis are two central features of Kawasaki disease (KD). Recent observations indicated that serum levels of cytokines including interferon(INF)- γ, tumor necrosis factor ...

    Naoki Kobayashi, Masaaki Mori, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Takako Miyamae in Pediatric Research (2003)