Publications by authors named "Taro Kuroda"
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- The study analyzed 206 patients with decompensated cirrhosis due to hepatitis C treated with direct-acting antivirals (DAA) from February 2019 to December 2021 in Japan.
- Patients were mostly older, with 76% classified as Child-Pugh class B (CP-B), and the survival rates were promising, with high 2- and 3-year liver transplantation (LT)-free survival rates.
- The research found that liver function, assessed at 12 weeks after DAA treatment, was a crucial predictor of prognosis, rather than the baseline liver function at the start of treatment.
The efficiency of upfront consolidation with high-dose chemotherapy/autologous stem-cell transplantation (HDCT/ASCT) for newly diagnosed high-risk diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) may be influenced by induction chemotherapy. To select better induction chemotherapy regimens for HDCT/ASCT, a randomized phase II study was conducted in high-risk DLBCL patients having an age-adjusted International Prognostic Index (aaIPI) score of 2 or 3. As induction chemotherapy, 6 cycles of R-CHOP-14 (arm A) or 3 cycles of R-CHOP-14 followed by 3 cycles of CHASER (arm B) were planned, and patients who responded proceeded to HDCT with LEED and ASCT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOn March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and huge tsunami occurred near the Pacific coast of northeast Japan, in which more than 18,000 people died or went missing and more than 120,000 buildings were destroyed. In Taro district, one of the areas struck hardest by the tsunami, a middle-aged woman was found deceased in the rubble.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth care response to the tsunami in Taro District, Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture.
Western Pac Surveill Response J
October 2011
Problem: IN THE TARO DISTRICT (POPULATION: 4434), the great tsunami of 11 March 2011 destroyed the central region including the clinic, the sole medical facility (one physician, 13 nurses and other staff) in the district, and many citizens were forced to live in evacuation centres.
Context: The Taro District experienced massive damage during the tsunamis of 1896 and 1933. Since then countermeasures to tsunamis have been implemented.