Publications by authors named "Naoki Egami"

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  • - This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of two vitamin K prophylactic regimens on PIVKA-II and PT-INR levels in healthy newborns.
  • - A total of 119 infants were either given vitamin K three times (at birth, 5 days, and 1 month) or thirteen times (at the same times plus weekly for 11 weeks).
  • - Results showed that the 13-time regimen significantly improved coagulation markers in both breastfed and formula-fed infants, while the 3-time regimen had limited effects.
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Identification and estimation of causal peer effects are challenging in observational studies for two reasons. The first is the identification challenge due to unmeasured network confounding, for example, homophily bias and contextual confounding. The second is network dependence of observations.

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Objectives: To determine the optimal management for early-onset thrombophilia (EOT), the genetic and clinical features of protein C (PC)-, protein S (PS)-, or antithrombin (AT)-deficient patients of ≤20 years of age were studied in Japan.

Methods/results: Clinical and genetic information of all genetically diagnosed cases was collected through the prospective, retrospective study, and literature review. One-hundred-one patients had PC (n = 55), PS (n = 29), or AT deficiency (n = 18).

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  • * A definition for early-onset thrombophilia was established for patients under 20, along with a registry in Japan to collect data on genetic and clinical characteristics.
  • * Findings show that while less than 60% of patients had protein C deficiency, additional deficiencies appeared with age, and specific genetic variants were linked to thrombosis development, emphasizing the need for effective screening tests.
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Ductus arteriosus aneurysm (DAA) asymptomatically occurs in newborn infants and resolves spontaneously. High-risk DAA with compression, rupture, and thrombosis requires early surgical intervention. Newborn infants have the highest risk of thrombosis among pediatric patients, but the genetic predisposition is difficult to determine in infancy.

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Text as data techniques offer a great promise: the ability to inductively discover measures that are useful for testing social science theories with large collections of text. Nearly all text-based causal inferences depend on a latent representation of the text, but we show that estimating this latent representation from the data creates underacknowledged risks: we may introduce an identification problem or overfit. To address these risks, we introduce a split-sample workflow for making rigorous causal inferences with discovered measures as treatments or outcomes.

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Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease (PVOD) and idiopathic/heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension (I/HPAH) cause progressive PH on the distinct genetic impact. A 29-month-old boy presented with a loss of consciousness. He had severe PH refractory to pulmonary vasodilators.

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V-shaped xanthene dyes capable of predicting absorption and emission wavelengths are described. These dyes were synthesized by bridging a xanthene ring and an aryl moiety of fluorescein through ether covalent bonds. These dyes showed longer absorption and emission wavelengths than those of the parent fluorescein.

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Bridged indigos were synthesized by bridging the two nitrogen atoms in the indigo structure with a carbon chain, and their properties were carefully examined. These bridged indigos have intrinsic planar chirality, and the enantiomers were separated using chiral high-performance liquid chromatography. When the chiral bridged indigos were subjected to thermo- and photoisomerization, the corresponding ()-indigo was not observed at all, and racemization was observed.

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Objective: To clarify the incidence and genetic risk of neonatal-thromboembolism, we conducted a nationwide study exploring the impact of thrombophilia on neonatal-thromboembolism in Japan.

Study Design: A questionnaire survey was conducted for perinatal centers in Japan, focusing on the clinical expression, genotype, treatment, and outcome of patients who developed thromboembolism within 28 days of birth from 2014 to 2018.

Results: The estimated incidence of neonatal-thromboembolism was 0.

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Evidence of the molecular epidemiology of thrombophilia is growing, and the clinical management of adult thromboembolism patients has recently made significant progress. On the other hand, there is little or no evidence concerning the genetic variation, treatment, and prophylaxis of thromboembolism development in the early life stage. The clinical presentation of early-onset thrombosis/thrombophilia, which mostly occurs in newborns and adolescents, differs from that in cases of adult-onset.

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Introduction: Neonatal cephalohematoma and hyperbilirubinemia are often encountered after vacuum-assisted delivery. For safe obstetric practice, guidelines for vacuum procedure were published in 2014 in Japan. We aimed to identify the risk of mild neonatal complications since guideline introduction.

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Aim: Practice guidelines for vacuum-assisted delivery in Japan were revised in 2014 to improve clinical safety. We aimed to determine the success rates of vacuum delivery before and after the release of the revised guidelines.

Methods: This retrospective observational study included singleton deliveries at term gestation.

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Environmental factors have been suspected to have effects on the development of Kawasaki disease. However, the associations have been conflicting. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of air pollution, weather conditions, and epidemic infections on the risks for Kawasaki disease in Japan.

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Objective: To investigate whether the development of postnatal, late-onset refractory hypotension, referred to as late-onset circulatory collapse, was associated with an increased risk of developing cerebral palsy (CP) at 3 years of age in extremely preterm infants.

Methods: In this historical cohort study, infants who were born at 22-27 weeks of gestation from 2008 to 2012 in the Neonatal Research Network of Japan were eligible. The study sample consisted of 3474 infants (45.

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