World Congress on Organ Transplantation and Artificial Organs August 24-25, 2018 Tokyo , Japan

Biography:

Yoshiaki Omura is an Originator of Bi-Digital O-Ring Test. He is the President of International Association of Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Medical Societies. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Family & Community Medicine, New York Medical College and President of International College of Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics. He is also a Former Director of Medical Research, Heart Disease Research Foundation.

 

 

Abstract:

As a cause of hypertension, there are 10 causes that are shown by NIH and Mayo Clinic, although role of infection, particularly chlamydia pneumoniae are not included in these lists. Unfortunately, most doctors give prescribed combination of variety of medicine based on the Physician’s Desk Reference, which is also known as PDR. Without figuring out individualized, optimal doses, therefore, prescribed amounts of medications are overdosed for the people over 50 or 60 years old. Usually, optimal dose is proportional to physical activities. In spite of the large body weight, optimal dose is often less than adult with average activity and the actual individual, optima dose is also often reduced as average adult. As a result, often overweight people with little body movement receive excessive toxic dose of the medication. In addition, there is a general tendency to not only test each drug’s optimal dose, but they also do not examine drug interaction which may create toxic effect. We see this often and our study indicates that among the infections, which may be associated with hypertension and chlamydia pneumoniae. As a result, for treatment of some of the mild hypertension ends up as more serious problems to hurt brain and the vascular system. According to our study, we found the optimal dose of Vitamin D₃ is essential for many people who do not have sufficient, active form of Vitamin D₃. The author also found Vitamin D₃ deficiency is very common, but many doctors often give excessive dose of Vitamin D₃ instead of optimal dose. Our study with optimal dose of Vitamin D₃ indicated it has 7 unique, beneficial effects, which include significant anti-cancer effects, significant increase in DHEA levels and acetylcholine for those who have a reduced amount and has a very significant urinary excretion of viruses, bacteria, fungi and single-cell parasites, asbestos, mercury and aluminum as well as other toxic substances. We have also recently found that the continuous use of individually determined optimal dose of Vitamin D₃ often reduces both systolic and diastolic blood pressure gradually. Using these unique beneficial effects of Vitamin D₃ we found some of the overweight patients with diabetes and high blood pressure and they were given overdose of medication in spite of the extremely reduced body movements. Many treatments to reduce the body weight failed but by reducing to the optimal dose of anti-hypertensive drugs and anti-diabetic drugs plus optimal dose of Vitamin D₃ for every 8 hours, some patient’s blood pressure and blood sugar level became close to normal and body weight significantly reduced. Many attempts to reduce the body weight in the past all failed but just giving optimal dose of all the medication taken, which are compatible with each other without creating toxic effect and adding only optimal dose of vitamin D₃. By reducing each drug to optimal dose and eliminating drugs which inhibit other drugs as well as Vitamin D₃, in a matter of 1 month in some patients we had a very significant reduction of bodyweight, blood pressure. This simple approach should be tried for resistant, hypertensive patients, particularly with high blood sugar or patients who are overweight. At least it is worth trying.

 

 

Biography:

Hiroshi Ohrui has received his PhD degree (1971) from The University of Tokyo, Japan. He has Joined RIKEN (1966) and moved to Tokyo University (1981) and then to Yokohama University of Pharmacy (2006). He has worked for Dr. J. J. Fox at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (1972-1973) and Dr. J. G. Moffatt at Syntex Research (1973-1974). He has received several awards including Inoue Prize for Science (2001), Japan Prize for Agricultural Sciences (2004), The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award (2004) and Japan Academy Prize (2010). His research interests cover organic synthesis, chemical biology and chiral discrimination.

 

Abstract:

4’-C-Ethynyl-2-fluoro-2’-deoxyadenosine (EFdA) has attracted much attention due to its extremely excellent anti-HIV activity; prevent the emergence of resistant HIV mutants, over 400 times more active than AZT and several orders of magnitude more active than the other clinical reverse-transcriptase inhibitor 2’,3’-dideoxynucleoside drugs, very low toxic, long acting, could be used for prophylaxis, and so on. EFdA is now under clinical investigation as MK-8591 by Merck & Co. General idea for the development of anti-viral nucleoside based on the mutation of viruses and the development of EFdA, especially the design of it, will be presented and discussed. For the design of the modified nucleoside which could solve the problems the clinical drugs have: (1) Emergence of drug-resistant HIV-mutants, (2) Adverse effects by drugs, and (3) Necessary to take plenty amount of drugs. The following working hypotheses to solve the problems were proposed: (1) The way to prevent the emergence of resistant HIV mutants, (2) The way to decrease the toxicity of modified nucleosides, and (3) The way to provide the nucleoside with the stability to both enzymatic and acidic hydrolysis of nucleobase for long acting. 4’-C-substituted-2’-deoxynucleoside was designed to meet the hypotheses (1), (3) and the two-site-modification was conducted to meet the hypothesis (2). The details of the hypotheses and the reason of the 4’-C-substitution will be discussed. To prevent the deamination of adenine base, fluorine atom was introduced at the 2-position of adenine base. Finally, EFdA which is modified at the two position of the physiologic 2’-deoxyadenosine and has extremely excellent anti-HIV properties been successfully developed

Biography:

Dr. Bruce Gelb, MD FACS  is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute. He performs liver, kidney, pancreas, and living donor transplant surgery, as well as a key member of the Face Transplant team, leading the development and management of the immunosuppression regimens for the VCA program. He also serves as the Chair of the Quality Improvement Committee of NYU Langone Health.  Dr. Gelb also serves on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Ethics Committee.  Dr. Gelb is concerned with a variety of issues in bioethics, with particular interest in the ethics of transplantation.  He currently serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the Global Bioethics Initiative, an NGO member of the United Nations Academic Impact with special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council.

 

Abstract:

Vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) is defined as “the transplant of intactvascularized body parts, such as hands and faces.”  The first successful handtransplant was performed in France in 1998, and the field has expanded to include faces, abdominal walls, arms, legs, scalp, and reproductive organs. From a technical standpoint, feasibility has been proven, as is evidenced by graft and patient survival rates comparative to or exceeding that of solid organ transplant.  To date, more than 200 of these procedures have been performed world-wide.  Each procedure is necessarily unique.As the field makes the transition from purely experimental to becoming a standard of care, there are notable ethical issues specific to VCA:  Are the quality of life and psychological benefits sufficient to justify the operative risk and medical risks associated with life-long immunosuppression therapy for a non-life saving procedure?  Is the procedure economically justifiable?  Can recipient and donor privacy and anonymity be sufficiently protected in a time of extreme human interest and media attention in these procedures?  How do we determine who is an appropriate candidate for this procedure?  What is the appropriate timing in relation to the original injury?  What should the legal and regulatory framework be to determine which procedures are appropriate currently?It is necessary to have consensus in approaching these issues both thoughtfully and realistically if the field of VCA transplantation is to survive and mature over the next 20 years

Biography:

Chris Elliott is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and a Barrister (trial lawyer) specializing in regulated technology. He has wide experience of the development of leading-edge technological products and their regulatory approval. For the last 7 years, he has specialized in the innovative measurement of blood pressure and the clinical exploitation of the results

Abstract:

Non-invasive measurement of blood pressure dates from the late 19^th century, when Riva-Rocci proposed occlusion and then Korotkoff identified the characteristic turbulent sounds. Little changed until the 1980s when Penãz unloading emerged and then pulse wave velocity. There have recently been many announcements of novel techniques and products to measure BP without a cuff, both for clinical and consumer use and for continuous or on-demand monitoring.

The workshop will start by reviewing the underlying challenge of measuring blood pressure, including consideration of its variability and the conditions under which it must be measured. The performance of the “gold standard” will be presented.

Before considering specific novel techniques, the workshop will examine the physics and physiology of arteries that forms the basis for two different approaches. This will include the stress/strain law applies to artery walls and its implications for the direct and indirect ways of estimating the pressure non-invasively. This will expose some traditional myths, such as that the maximum change in arterial area is found at Mean Blood Pressure and the assumption that the dynamic stiffness is solely a property of the artery wall.

That background will introduce the two divergent approaches, based on direct measurement of pressure and indirect measurement of wave velocity. The workshop will then consider in detail seven examples of products that illustrate each of the approaches, including those intended for professional use and those intended for the consumer, and also considering both continuous monitoring and on-demand devices. The examples range from NexFin and Caretaker through to the Asus watch and the development by the author’s company. It will end with a short review of a further eight devices of projects and some observations about the implications for clinical practice