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Heart and Vessels

Issue 4/2021

Content (18 Articles)

CT Angiography Original Article

New transluminal attenuation gradient derived from dynamic coronary CT angiography: diagnostic ability of ischemia detected by 13N-ammonia PET

Tsukasa Kojima, Michinobu Nagao, Hidetake Yabuuchi, Yuzo Yamasaki, Takashi Shirasaka, Masateru Kawakubo, Kenji Fukushima, Toyoyuki Kato, Atsushi Yamamoto, Risako Nakao, Akiko Sakai, Eri Watanabe, Shuji Sakai

Open Access Clopidogrel Original Article

Effects of switching from clopidogrel to prasugrel at the chronic phase after coronary stenting on antiplatelet action and vascular endothelial function: Switch-Pras study

Taiki Masuyama, Masashi Sakuma, Ryutaro Waku, Suguru Hirose, Keijiro Kitahara, Jin Naganuma, Hiroko Yazawa, Shigeru Toyoda, Shichiro Abe, Toshiaki Nakajima, Teruo Inoue

Original Article

Long-term renal outcomes after elective percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with advanced renal dysfunction

Hiroshi Tashiro, Akihito Tanaka, Hideki Ishii, Kensuke Takagi, Yusuke Uemura, Yosuke Inoue, Norio Umemoto, Yosuke Negishi, Naoki Shibata, Naoki Yoshioka, Kiyokazu Shimizu, Itsuro Morishima, Masato Watarai, Hiroshi Asano, Toyoaki Murohara

CT Angiography Original Article

Plaque characteristics on coronary CT angiography associated with the positive findings of fractional flow reserve and instantaneous wave-free ratio

Chihiro Aoshima, Shinichiro Fujimoto, Yuko O. Kawaguchi, Tomotaka Dohi, Yuki Kamo, Kazuhisa Takamura, Makoto Hiki, Yoshiteru Kato, Iwao Okai, Shinya Okazaki, Kanako K. Kumamaru, Shigeki Aoki, Hiroyuki Daida

Impact of persistent endothelial dysfunction in an infarct-related coronary artery on future major adverse cardiovascular event occurrence in STEMI survivors

Takeo Horikoshi, Takamitsu Nakamura, Toru Yoshizaki, Yosuke Watanabe, Manabu Uematsu, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Kazuto Nakamura, Yukio Saito, Jun-ei Obata, Kiyotaka Kugiyama

Dyslipidemia Original Article

Associations between smoking habits and major adverse cardiovascular events in patients who underwent coronary computed tomography angiography as screening for coronary artery disease

Sara Higashi, Yuhei Shiga, Masaya Yano, Tomoki Imaizumi, Kohei Tashiro, Yoshiaki Idemoto, Yuta Kato, Takashi Kuwano, Makoto Sugihara, Shin-ichiro Miura

Cardiomyopathy Original Article

Prognostic implications of pre-existing medical comorbidity in Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Arash Nayeri, Alexander Yuen, Cher Huang, Kathryn Cardoza, Kamran Shamsa, Boback Ziaeian, Quinn S. Wells, Gregg Fonarow, Tamara Horwich

Heart Transplantation Original Article

Association between infectious event and de novo malignancy after heart transplantation

Chie Bujo, Eisuke Amiya, Masaru Hatano, Masaki Tsuji, Hisataka Maki, Junichi Ishida, Satoshi Ishii, Koichi Narita, Miyoko Endo, Masahiko Ando, Shogo Shimada, Osamu Kinoshita, Minoru Ono, Issei Komuro

Care Original Article

Predictors of activities of daily living at discharge in elderly patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Masahiro Kitamura, Kazuhiro P. Izawa, Kodai Ishihara, Masakazu Yaekura, Hitomi Nagashima, Takashi Yoshizawa, Nobuhiro Okamoto

Acute Heart Failure Original Article

Prognostic value of pulmonary oedema assessed by lung ultrasound in patient with acute heart failure

Feifei Yang, Qiushuang Wang, Liwei Zhang, Yongjiang Ma, Qiang Chen

Original Article

Recurrent germline mutations as genetic markers for aortic root dilatation in bicuspid aortic valve patients

Boting Wu, Jun Li, Yongshi Wang, Yunfeng Cheng, Chunsheng Wang, Xianhong Shu

Atrioventricular Block Original Article

Efficacy of cryo-ablation during atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia

Tadashi Hoshiyama, Keiichi Ashikaga, Kenichi Tsujita, Yoshisato Shibata

Stroke Original Article

Clinical outcomes of ablation versus non-ablation therapy for atrial fibrillation in Japan: analysis of pooled data from the AF Frontier Ablation Registry and SAKURA AF Registry

Kazuki Iso, Koichi Nagashima, Masaru Arai, Ryuta Watanabe, Katsuaki Yokoyama, Naoya Matsumoto, Takayuki Otsuka, Shinya Suzuki, Akio Hirata, Masato Murakami, Mitsuru Takami, Masaomi Kimura, Hidehira Fukaya, Shiro Nakahara, Takeshi Kato, Hiroshi Hayashi, Yu-ki Iwasaki, Wataru Shimizu, Ikutaro Nakajima, Tomoo Harada, Junjiroh Koyama, Ken Okumura, Michifumi Tokuda, Teiichi Yamane, Kojiro Tanimoto, Yukihiko Momiyama, Noriko Nonoguchi, Kyoko Soejima, Koichiro Ejima, Nobuhisa Hagiwara, Masahide Harada, Kazumasa Sonoda, Masaru Inoue, Koji Kumagai, Hidemori Hayashi, Yoshinao Yazaki, Kazuhiro Satomi, Yuji Watari, Yasuo Okumura

Open Access Propofol Original Article

Safety of conscious sedation in electroanatomical mapping procedures and cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation

Karolina Weinmann, Regina Heudorfer, Alexia Lenz, Deniz Aktolga, Manuel Rattka, Carlo Bothner, Alexander Pott, Wolfgang Öchsner, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Tillman Dahme

Acute Heart Failure Original Article

Effect of transient elevation of glucose on contractile properties in non-diabetic rat cardiac muscle

Masahito Miura, Taiki Hasegawa, Ayana Matsumoto, Masami Nishiyama, Yuka Someya, Wakako Satoh, Kazunori Kumasaka, Chiyohiko Shindoh, Haruka Sato

Atrial Fibrillation Original Article

Manifestations of gene expression profiles in human right atrial myocardium caused by mechanical stretch

Ryusuke Suzuki, Masaki Morishima, Chisato Nakada, Shinji Miyamoto, Katsushige Ono

Original Article

Disruption of asparagine-linked glycosylation to rescue and alter gating of the NaV1.5-Na+ channel

Pu Wang, Xiufang Zhu, Mengyan Wei, Yangong Liu, Kenshi Yoshimura, Mingqi Zheng, Gang Liu, Shinichiro Kume, Tatsuki Kurokawa, Katsushige Ono