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Reposting from my misskey:
In view of the Kyoani case progressing, I want to talk about Dr Ueda Takahiro, the doctor who was in charge of the skin grafting of arsonist Aoba Shinji.
Not a single piece of Western media has named Dr Ueda for his work in advancing skin grafting, and in particular, the technique called Cultured Epithelial Autografts (CEA), which I think is what was used for Aoba.
For starters, this is Dr Ueda's Researchgate and Researchmap profiles with his papers. At this point there doesn't seem to be a specific case report talking about Aoba's medical progress, but it can be inferred that he may have been included in studies that included multiple patients. I also don't have access to the Japanese-only research papers (and my Japanese ability isn't at an academic level) and only what was originally published in English, but for an idea of what the skin grafting procedure entailed, you can read one of his older English-first publications that are available online (this predates Aoba so the technique is likely even more refined now). I'm sure much of what has been learned has also been incorporated into the Japanese Society for Burn Injuries (JSBI) Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Burn Care (3rd Edition), which Dr Ueda contributed to.
What did Aoba's skin grafting process entail? English news sources didn't talk about it, but Mainichi did in this article (my interpretation):
Asahi Shinbun has an article on Dr Ueda's reflections about the incident in English.
You can also find some of his own thoughts and retweets about the case on his Twitter/X
I actually just watched a special on him that came out about him a few days ago, talking about the Aoba case. It was really interesting to see how he felt about the whole thing.
https://youtu.be/wlj8mV8wk3s?si=fiDEZHZPyasjdYg1
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Thanks for the link! I’ll get to watching it tonight.