Background
Tarui, Seiichiro was born on July 23, 1927 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. Son of Kasaburo and Katsuko (Shimada) Tarui.
垂井 清一郎
physician internal medicine educator
Tarui, Seiichiro was born on July 23, 1927 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. Son of Kasaburo and Katsuko (Shimada) Tarui.
Doctor of Medicine, Osaka University, 1953, Doctor of Philosophy Osaka University, 1959. Diplomate Ministry Health and Welfare of Japan.
He also received the Takeda Medical Science Prize in 1995. Seiichiro Tarui qualified in medicine at the University of Osaka in 1953. From 1959 he was an assistant in the Second Department of Internal Medicine at this university, where he conducted clinical research on disorders of carbohydrate metabolism.
He was appointed as Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in 1966, and in 1978 he was elevated to the chair of internal medicine.
He retired with emeritus status in 1991. He then became Director of Otemae Hospital, Osaka.
Tarui"s disease - An inborn error of glycogen metabolism characterized by phosphofructokinase deficiency in the muscles, associated with abnormal deposition of glycogen in muscle tissues. Tarui disease typically manifests itself in childhood with exercise intolerance and anaemia.
The fatal variant normally onsets within the first year of life, and all reported cases have died before the age of four.
The adult variant normally sets in in late adulthood in the form of progressive limb muscle weakness without myoglobinuria or cramps. The diseases is particularly rare, with only about 40 cases in total reported. lieutenant is marginally more prominent in males, than in females.
Member Japan Endocrine Society (committee. Member 1981-1991), Japan Diabetic Society (committee. Member 1986-1993, Hagedorn prize 1990, Sakaguchi prize 1995), Japan Society Internal Medical (committee.
Member 1984-1986), Japan Atherosclerosis Society (committee.
Member 1989-1995, Oshima prize 1998). Club: Nigawa Tennis (Nishinomiya), Rokko Country (Nishinomiya).
Lodge: Rotary (Osaka).
Married Yoshiko Iwasaki Tarui, October 13, 1959. Children: Jun, Makoto.