Mureo Kasahara is an expert in Surgery at National Center For Child Health and Development (Japan). As of October 2026, ScienceLeadR ranks Mureo Kasahara in the top 1% of experts worldwide for Liver Transplantation, Tissue Transplantation and Biliary Tract Diseases. Mureo Kasahara has authored 449 publications, the most recent in 2026. SLR score: 1,387 (community average: 125). How the SLR is computed.

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Surgery

Subspecialties: Transplantation - Pediatrics - Hepatology

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National Center for Child Health and Development,Tokyo, Japan

Prof. Mureo Kasahara started his professional career in Hepatobiliary and transplant surgery at Kyoto University School of Medicine from 1996. He also served as a fellow at the Liver Transplant Surgery Service in King’s College Hospital in London, UK in 2002. He is now the Executive Director in the internationally renowned National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo, Japan from April 2022. Since 1996, he has been performing the largest number of living related pediatric liver transplants (2000 cases) for children from all over the world. First in human clinical study of regenerative medicine, ES cell drived hepatocyte transplantation for congenital metabolic liver disease, has achieved under his supervison in 2020 at National Center for Child Health and Development. Due to his experertise and international reputation in the field, Prof. Kasahara has been promoted to Executive Director of National Center for Child Health and Development from 2022.



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Career arc: 2000 - 2026

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National Center For Child Health and Development

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Number : 449

Citations

Citations: 7 417 1st author: 54 Last author: 155 Unique author: 1


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Latest Publications

5 most recent indexed articles

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Title Journal Year Citations
Genetic evaluation in living liver donors: beyond individual risk to system responsibility.
PMID 42895308 — genes, liver transplantation, liver
Curr Opin Organ Transplant20260
Sequential Versus Combined Liver-Kidney Transplantation in Pediatric Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1: A Multi-Center Comparative Cohort Analysis.
PMID 42847256 — kidney diseases, liver transplantation, hyperoxaluria, primary, multiple chronic conditions, hyperoxaluria, kidney, liver, transplants, kidney transplantation, transplantation
Pediatr Transplant20260
An international multicenter analysis of the outcome of pediatric first variceal hemorrhage.
PMID 42842335 — liver diseases, hypertension, mortality, hemorrhage, sclerotherapy, endoscopy, hypertension, portal, biliary atresia, child
Hepatology20260
Benchmarking paediatric living donor liver transplantation for establishing standards to expand access and save lives: retrospective global cohort study.
PMID 42789422 — liver transplantation, mortality, surgical procedures, operative, cohort studies, classification, liver, transplants, benchmarking, transplantation
BJS Open20260
Biliary complications in pediatric living donor liver transplantation: An international multicenter analysis of risk and prognostic factors.
PMID 42735241 — liver transplantation, constriction, pathologic, bile, risk assessment, graft survival, liver, risk factors, transplants, transplantation, prognosis, child
Liver Transpl20260

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