Publications by authors named "H Kaburagi"
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- Cardiac amyloidosis is a serious heart condition resulting from the buildup of amyloid protein in heart tissue, often leading to severe heart failure, which requires early detection for better outcomes.
- * Recent studies suggest a link between cardiac amyloidosis and orthopedic conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and shoulder diseases, though little has been researched about amyloid presence in shoulder specimens correlated with cardiac issues.
- * In a study of 41 shoulder surgery patients and 33 CTS patients, 7.3% showed amyloid deposition related to rotator cuff tears, but none of these cases had cardiac amyloidosis, indicating that shoulder specimen screening may not effectively predict cardiac amyloidosis.
Purpose: Few clinical studies have compared the operative outcomes between loose- and press-fit stems in radial head arthroplasty (RHA). We aimed to evaluate the radiographic and clinical results of the two radial head implant concepts.
Methods: In this retrospective multicenter study, 32 patients (24 women and 8 men) with a mean age of 63.
Early detection of cervical myelopathy (CM) is important for a favorable outcome, as its prognosis is poor when left untreated. We developed a screening method for CM using machine learning-based analysis of the drawing behavior of 38 patients with CM and 66 healthy volunteers. Using a stylus pen, the participants traced three different shapes displayed on a tablet device.
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- Early detection of degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is crucial, but existing screening methods are complex and costly, prompting this study to explore a simpler 10-second grip-and-release test using machine learning via smartphones.* -
- The study involved 39 participants (22 with DCM and 17 as controls), where videos of the grip test were analyzed to estimate DCM presence using a support vector machine algorithm, yielding high sensitivity (90.9%) and specificity (88.2%).* -
- The proposed screening model shows promise as an effective and accessible tool for identifying DCM, making it useful for non-specialists and the general community.*
Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) induces severe functional loss in extremities. Progressive denervation and atrophy occur in the muscles if the nerve repair is delayed for long periods of the time. To overcome these difficulties, detailed mechanisms should be determined for neuromuscular junction (NMJ) degeneration in target muscles after PNI and regeneration after nerve repair.
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