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Kazuo Fujihara
Researcher at Fukushima Medical University
Publications - 367
Citations - 37937
Kazuo Fujihara is an academic researcher from Fukushima Medical University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Neuromyelitis optica & Multiple sclerosis. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 342 publications receiving 30314 citations. Previous affiliations of Kazuo Fujihara include Niigata University & Tohoku University.
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Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 Revisions to the McDonald criteria
Chris H. Polman,Stephen C. Reingold,Brenda Banwell,Michel Clanet,Jeffrey A. Cohen,Massimo Filippi,Kazuo Fujihara,Eva Havrdova,Michael Hutchinson,Ludwig Kappos,Fred D. Lublin,Xavier Montalban,Paul L. O’Connor,Magnhild Sandberg-Wollheim,Alan J. Thompson,Emmanuelle Waubant,Brian G. Weinshenker,Jerry S. Wolinsky +17 more
TL;DR: These revisions simplify the McDonald Criteria, preserve their diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, address their applicability across populations, and may allow earlier diagnosis and more uniform and widespread use.
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Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis: 2017 revisions of the McDonald criteria
Alan J. Thompson,Brenda Banwell,Frederik Barkhof,Frederik Barkhof,William M. Carroll,Timothy Coetzee,Giancarlo Comi,Jorge Correale,Franz Fazekas,Massimo Filippi,Mark S. Freedman,Kazuo Fujihara,Steven L. Galetta,Hans-Peter Hartung,Ludwig Kappos,Fred D. Lublin,Ruth Ann Marrie,Aaron E. Miller,David Miller,Xavier Montalban,Xavier Montalban,Ellen M. Mowry,Per Soelberg Sørensen,Mar Tintoré,Anthony Traboulsee,Maria Trojano,Bernard M. J. Uitdehaag,Sandra Vukusic,Sandra Vukusic,Emmanuelle Waubant,Brian G. Weinshenker,Stephen C. Reingold,Jeffrey A. Cohen +32 more
TL;DR: The 2017 McDonald criteria continue to apply primarily to patients experiencing a typical clinically isolated syndrome, define what is needed to fulfil dissemination in time and space of lesions in the CNS, and stress the need for no better explanation for the presentation.
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International consensus diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders
Dean M. Wingerchuk,Brenda Banwell,Jeffrey Bennett,Philippe Cabre,William M. Carroll,Tanuja Chitnis,Jérôme De Seze,Kazuo Fujihara,Benjamin Greenberg,Anu Jacob,Sven Jarius,Marco Aurélio Lana-Peixoto,Michael J. Levy,Jack H. Simon,Silvia Tenembaum,Anthony Traboulsee,Patrick Waters,Kay E. Wellik,Brian G. Weinshenker +18 more
TL;DR: The International Panel for NMO Diagnosis (IPND) was convened to develop revised diagnostic criteria using systematic literature reviews and electronic surveys to facilitate consensus and achieved consensus on pediatric NMOSD diagnosis and the concepts of monophasicNMOSD and opticospinal MS.
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A serum autoantibody marker of neuromyelitis optica : distinction from multiple sclerosis
Vanda A. Lennon,Dean M. Wingerchuk,Thomas J. Kryzer,Sean J. Pittock,C. F. Lucchinetti,Kazuo Fujihara,Ichiro Nakashima,Brian G. Weinshenker +7 more
TL;DR: NMO-IgG is a specific marker autoantibody of neuromyelitis optica and binds at or near the blood-brain barrier that distinguishes neuromyleitis opticas from multiple sclerosis.
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Distinction between MOG antibody-positive and AQP4 antibody-positive NMO spectrum disorders
Douglas Kazutoshi Sato,Dagoberto Callegaro,Marco Aurélio Lana-Peixoto,Patrick Waters,Frederico Jorge,Toshiyuki Takahashi,Ichiro Nakashima,Samira Luisa Apostolos-Pereira,Natalia Talim,Renata Simm,Angelina Maria Martins Lino,Tatsuro Misu,Maria Isabel Leite,Masashi Aoki,Kazuo Fujihara +14 more
TL;DR: Patients with NMOSD with MOG antibodies have distinct clinical features, fewer attacks, and better recovery than patients with AQP4 antibodies or patients seronegative for both antibodies.