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Respiratory Medicine Lab
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A lab that pursues a wide range of lung diseases through both clinical care and research.
AboutAbout the lab
Respiratory diseases are a mirror of the environment.
The lab handles diseases of the lungs and breathing through both clinical care and research.
Its scope covers a wide range of conditions: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchial asthma, respiratory infections, lung cancer, acute lung injury, pulmonary hypertension, sleep apnea syndrome, and interstitial lung disease.
Because the pathophysiology differs between mild and severe cases even under the same disease name, the lab places more value on understanding the pathophysiology than on assigning a diagnosis name.
The lab values a 'research mind' that connects questions arising in clinical practice to research.
Key terms
- Pulmonary hypertension
- A disease in which pressure rises in the blood vessels that carry blood to the lungs, straining the heart and causing symptoms such as shortness of breath
- Interstitial lung disease
- A group of diseases in which inflammation or fibrosis occurs in the walls surrounding the alveoli, making it hard to breathe in
- Acute lung injury
- A condition in which the lungs suddenly become severely inflamed and cannot take in oxygen well
NewsLab news
A resident won an Excellence Award at the Kanto Regional Meeting of the Japanese Respiratory Society
Respiratory Medicine and the Intensive Care Department collaborated to create a joint program
A graduate student's case report was published in Respiratory Endoscopy
A graduate student's original article was published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
A graduate student's original article on drug therapy for thymic carcinoma was published
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies a wide range of respiratory diseases, including pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer, and respiratory infections. It aims to analyze how disease conditions arise and to build treatment approaches from that understanding.
*Illustrative imagePulmonary Hypertension
The lab studies the pathophysiology and treatment of pulmonary hypertension through both clinical research using a nationwide patient registry and basic research examining energy metabolism in the right ventricular myocardium and the response of pulmonary blood vessels to hypoxia.
*Illustrative imageChronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
For chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), a disease in which blood clots remain lodged in the pulmonary vessels and become chronic, the lab examines the characteristics of Japanese patients, genes involved in onset, and outcomes of surgery and catheter treatment, studying the mechanism of chronicity and its treatment.
*Illustrative imageAcute Lung Injury
In acute lung injury, where the lungs suddenly develop severe inflammation, the lab examines how endothelial cells of damaged lung blood vessels are repaired. It analyzes the roles of molecules involved in inflammation, such as CD26/DPP4, in mouse models.
*Illustrative imageInterstitial Lung Disease
Besides clinical research that reads the severity and prognosis of interstitial pneumonia from changes in oxygen levels during a six-minute walk test, the lab examines the pathophysiology of sarcoidosis and the effects of antifibrotic drugs on blood cells.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty who are both physicians and researchers.
- ProfessorTakuji Suzuki
- Clinical Associate ProfessorToshihiko Sugiura
- LecturerJun Ikari
- LecturerAyako Shigeta
- Clinical LecturerTsuyoshi Kawasaki
- Assistant ProfessorAkira Naito
- Assistant ProfessorShun Sato
- ProfessorReiko Uruma
- LecturerHajime Kasai
- Project Associate ProfessorAyumi Sekine
- Project Assistant ProfessorKeiko Yamamoto
- Project Assistant ProfessorHiroshi Tajima
- Project Assistant ProfessorGo Saito
- Project Assistant ProfessorHideki Ikeda
- Project Assistant ProfessorKazushi Fujimoto
- Project ProfessorNobuhiro Tanabe
- Project Assistant ProfessorJun Miyakoshi
- Project Assistant ProfessorRika Suda
- Project Associate ProfessorNaoko Kawada
- Project Assistant ProfessorJun Nagata
- Project Assistant ProfessorTadasu Okaya
- Project ProfessorYoshitoshi Kasuya
- Project LecturerToshio Suzuki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “CT-Thorax-5.0-B70f-Lungs” Ptrump16 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Pulmonary Hypertension: “Preoperative planning with 3D printed model” Jan Witowski / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: “Reitender Thrombus bei Lungenembolie - CT - axial - 019” Hellerhoff / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Acute Lung Injury: “XR chest - pneumonia with abscess and caverns - d0” Christaras A / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Interstitial Lung Disease: “IPF amiodarone” James Heilman, MD / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (General Thoracic Surgery Lab): “3D CT of thorax” Mikael Häggström / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Allergy and Clinical Immunology Lab): “Eosinophils in Peripheral Blood Smear ( )” Ed Uthman from Houston, TX, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Pediatrics Lab): “Haende-30” Matthias Süßen / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Hematology Lab): “Connective Tissue Human Blood Leukocyte Survey ( )” Berkshire Community College Bioscience Image Library / CC0 (cropped)
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