Clinical Research Question Elucidation Group
Research interests
Our research goal is to resolve clinical questions based on daily clinical practice. Osaka University Hospital is designated as a certified heart transplantation center, actively treats patients with severe heart failure. Therefore, our main research interest is heart failure, and our research target is viability of myocardium, or cause-effect relationship with extra-cardiac organs including kidney, liver, blood cells and intestinum.
Current and future research directions
Current main key word of our research is “phenotyping”
- Assessment of myocardial viability with pathological approach (collaboration with Dr. Asano)
- Assessment of myocardial viability with ECG, CT, MRI and RI
- Liver congestion and heart failure
- Sleep quality and heart failure
- Quality of red blood cell and heart failure (collaboration with Prof. Kaneko)
- Gut and heart failure (collaboration with Prof. Takeda)
- Renal dysfunction and heart failure (collaboration with Dr.Hamano)
