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Yoshiaki Katahira

Researcher at Tohoku Pharmaceutical University

Publications -  62
Citations -  576

Yoshiaki Katahira is an academic researcher from Tohoku Pharmaceutical University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ventricular assist device & Myocardial infarction. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 61 publications receiving 490 citations. Previous affiliations of Yoshiaki Katahira include Tohoku University.

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Effect of the Great East Japan Earthquake on cardiovascular diseases--report from the 10 hospitals in the disaster area.

TL;DR: The Disaster caused significantly increases in the occurrence of HF, PTE and IE, and the weekly occurrence of several CVDs, including heart failure, pulmonary thromboembolism and infectious endocarditis was sharply and significantly increased.
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Blood flow structure and dynamics, and ejection mechanism in the left ventricle: analysis using echo-dynamography.

TL;DR: Blood flow structure and flow dynamics during ventricular systole were investigated in 10 normal volunteers and macroscopic and microscopic asynchrony in the myocardial contraction and extension appeared systematically in the local part of the ventricular wall, which was helpful for making the flowructure and for performing the smooth pump function.
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Effect of left ventricular assistance on sympathetic tone.

TL;DR: The data suggest that LVAD has an effect on the sympathetic nervous system which is mediated by the aortic and cardiopulmonary baroreflex system.
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Large thrombus in the ascending aorta successfully treated by thrombolysis--an unusual cause of acute massive myocardial infarction.

TL;DR: A 52-year-old woman suffered from acute massive myocardial infarction in association with a large thrombus in the ascending aorta and was taking hormone supplement therapy for menopausal hormone insufficiency and the contraceptive pill for endometriosis, and is the first to diagnose such aThrombus antemortem and treat it successfully.