Publications by authors named "Shoichiro Moteki"

Article Synopsis
  • The study aims to quantitatively assess muscle stiffness and weakness using shear wave elastography, a non-invasive ultrasound method, focusing on abdominal muscles during anesthetic induction.
  • It involved 75 adult patients, measuring shear wave velocities (SWV) at different states: baseline, opioid-induced rigidity, and after muscle relaxation, adjusting for subcutaneous fat thickness.
  • Results showed a reference SWV of 1.79 m/s, with increases of about 10% and 30% for rest and opioid-induced rigidity, suggesting adjusted SWV could be used for better muscle tone assessment.
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Postreperfusion syndrome is one of the responsible mechanisms of portal hypertension in patients undergoing liver transplantation. And post-transplant portal hypertension causes graft dysfunction. Postreperfusion syndrome is characterized by a decrease in arterial pressure and cardiac output, and an increase in central venous pressure, pulmonary artery pressure, and pulmonary vascular resistance that occurs after the release of the portal vein clamp.

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