Kyorin University Hospital

Impact of third-party accreditation and general medicine in-training examination participation on residency program popularity: a nationwide matching data analysis in Japan

Abstract Background Third-party accreditation and the visibility of educational outcomes may influence medical students’ choice of training sites; however, national evidence of their effect in Japan is limited. This study examined whether hospital characteristics—especially Japan...

Exploratory analysis of IFN-α-high and CXCL9-high cytokine distributions in systemic lupus erythematosus-associated macrophage activation syndrome

Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) is a life-threatening hyperinflammatory complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), but its immunopathology remains poorly understood. We investigated cytokine-associated inflammatory heterogeneity in SLE-associated MAS (SLE-MAS). Seru...

Comparison of response criteria in palliative radiotherapy for bleeding gastric cancer: A secondary analysis of the JROSG 17-3 multicenter prospective observational study

PURPOSE: In radiotherapy for bleeding gastric cancer, no standard response definition exists; studies have used transfusion-only or transfusion-plus-hemoglobin criteria. After inter-facility transfer or during home care-sometimes following palliative radiotherapy-laboratory resul...

The Clinicopathological Characteristics and Prognosis of Cholangiolocarcinoma: A Multicenter Study With a Central Pathology Review

BACKGROUND: Cholangiolocarcinoma (CLC) is a rare liver cancer with ≥ 80% ductular configuration (DC). Given its rarity, its clinicopathological characteristics remain poorly understood, and its status as a distinct disease entity remains controversial. We conducted a nationwide m...