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Department of Pediatrics小児科学講座
Faculty Members
- Professor: Kiminori Terui
- Associate professor: Ko Kudo
- Lecturer: Tsutomu Toki
- Lecturer (hospital affiliation): Koji Tsugawa
- Assistant professors: Rika Kanezaki, Akie Kobayashi
- Specially Appointed Professor: Etsuro Ito
Outline
The Department of Pediatrics currently has four research groups: Hematology and Oncology, Cardiology, Nephrology, Neurology and Endocrinology. Each of these groups is actively engaged in medical treatment and research that is disseminated worldwide.
Hematology-Oncology group: diagnosis and treatment of leukemia and other pediatric cancers, hematologic diseases and solid tumors.
Cardiology group: diagnosis and treatment of pediatric congenital and acquired heart disease.
Nephrology group: diagnosis and treatment of renal, autoimmune and allergic diseases.
Neurology-Endocrinology group: diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy and other neurological, muscular, endocrine, and metabolic diseases.
Current Research Topics
● Hematology-Oncology group
Clinical research on the treatment of refractory hematological diseases using hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Molecular mechanism of multi-step development of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia associated with Down syndrome.
Research on the causative genes of inherited hematological disorder such as Diamond-Blackfan anemia.
Research on electrophysiological analysis and catheter ablation for pediatric arrhythmia
Clinical studies on various catheter therapies for congenital heart disease. Histopathological studies on myocardial disease and myocardial lesions in children with Kawasaki disease.
Neurohumoral factors and cardiac autonomic activity in pediatric heart failure. Molecular biology and genetic study in pediatric cardiology.
Research on the causes of pediatric idiopathic nephrotic syndrome.
Basic and clinical research on pediatric IgA nephropathy.
Research of innate immunity-related inflammatory mechanisms in glomerular cells.
Clinical study for treatment of pediatric-onset lupus nephritis.
Research on the treatment of refractory pediatric epilepsy.
Clinical electroencephalographic analysis for visual seizures in occipital lobe epilepsy.
Genetic traits and gene loci analysis in febrile seizures and epilepsy.
Clinical electroencephalographic research on epilepsy induced by the electronic screen games.