Kunihisa Miwa

Kunihisa Miwa, MD, PhD, (born January 21, 1950) is a clinician and researcher in Internal Medicine, especially cardiology and cardiovascular physiology. He is the Director of Miwa Naika Clinic, Toyama, Japan.

Dr. Miwa is one of the authors of the 2011 case definition for Myalgic encephalomyelitis called the International Consensus Criteria.

Education

 * 1975, MD, Kyoto University, Japan
 * 1983, PhD, Kyoto University, Japan

Book chapters

 * 2012, Chapter 5, Small Heart as a Constitutive Factor Predisposing to Chronic fatigue Syndrome, in An International Perspective on the Future of Research in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, edited by Christopher Snell

Studies

 * 2008, Small heart syndrome in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome
 * 2009, Cardiac function fluctuates during exacerbation and remission in young adults with chronic fatigue syndrome and "small heart" - (Full text)
 * 2009, Cardiovascular dysfunction with low cardiac output due to a small heart in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome - (Full text)
 * 2011, Small Heart With Low Cardiac Output for Orthostatic Intolerance in Patients With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - (Full text)
 * 2014, Letter to the Editor - Renin-aldosterone paradox in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and orthostatic intolerance
 * 2015, Cardiac dysfunction and orthostatic intolerance in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and a small left ventricle - (Abstract)
 * 2016, Variability of postural orthostatic tachycardia in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and orthostatic intolerance - (Abstract)
 * 2016, Down-regulation of renin-aldosterone and antidiuretic hormone systems in patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - (Abstract)
 * 2019, Paradigme shift to disequilibrium in the genesis of orthostatic intolerance in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome - (Abstract)

Online presence

 * ResearchGate