Issue 6/2020
Content (16 Articles)
Relationship of quantitative flow ratio after second-generation drug-eluting stent implantation to clinical outcomes
Nobuaki Suzuki, Seiji Nishide, Takahiro Kimura, Takashi Aoyagi, Kenta Kanamori, Yoshitaka Shiratori, Noriyuki Hayami, Yuji Murakawa, Ken Kozuma
Frailty and coronary plaque characteristics on optical coherence tomography
Hideo Amano, Ryota Noike, Takayuki Yabe, Ippei Watanabe, Ryo Okubo, Masayuki Koizumi, Mikihito Toda, Takanori Ikeda
Effect of high-dose strong statin for preventing periprocedural ischemic complications of carotid artery stenting
Norihiko Shinozaki, Tsutomu Murakami, Yohei Ohno, Masataka Nakano, Toshiharu Fujii, Gaku Nakazawa, Fuminobu Yoshimachi, Yuji Ikari
Association between sarcopenia and atherosclerosis in elderly patients with ischemic heart disease
Shota Uchida, Kentaro Kamiya, Nobuaki Hamazaki, Ryota Matsuzawa, Kohei Nozaki, Takafumi Ichikawa, Yuta Suzuki, Takeshi Nakamura, Masashi Yamashita, Hidenori Kariya, Emi Maekawa, Minako Yamaoka-Tojo, Atsuhiko Matsunaga, Junya Ako
Comparing the effects of milrinone and olprinone in patients with congestive heart failure
Shintaro Dobashi, Ippei Watanabe, Rine Nakanishi, Shinji Hisatake, Shunsuke Kiuchi, Takayuki Kabuki, Takashi Oka, Takahiro Fujii, Takanori Ikeda
Elevated plasma tyrosine kinases VEGF-D and HER4 in heart failure patients decrease after heart transplantation in association with improved haemodynamics
Salaheldin Ahmed, Abdulla Ahmed, Joanna Säleby, Habib Bouzina, Jakob Lundgren, Göran Rådegran
Accumulated nocturnal hypoxemia predict arterial endothelial function in patients with sleep-disordered breathing with or without chronic heart failure
Hiroyuki Sawatari, Akiko Chishaki, Mari Nishizaka, Mami Miyazono, Tomotake Tokunou, Chie Magota, Umpei Yamamoto, Sakiko Shimizu Handa, Shin-ichi Ando
Prognostic role of bronchial asthma in patients with heart failure
Mina Nakayama, Masaaki Konishi, Eiichi Akiyama, Yukiko Morita, Yuma Fukutomi, Naoki Nakayama, Takeshi Takamura, Kouichi Tamura, Kazuo Kimura
Increased respiratory disturbance index measured using an advanced device algorithm is associated with heart failure development
Yasushi Wakabayashi, Takashi Koyama, Kazuto Kurihara, Masanori Kobayashi, Tomohide Ichikawa, Hidetoshi Abe
Transfemoral extraction of pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator leads using Needle’s Eye Snare: a single-center experience of more than 900 leads
Xu Zhou, Feng Ze, Ding Li, Long Wang, Jiangbo Duan, Cuizhen Yuan, Jinshan He, Jihong Guo, Xuebin Li
Narrower QRS may be enough to respond to cardiac resynchronization therapy in lightweight patients
Toshiko Nakai, Hiroaki Mano, Yukitoshi Ikeya, Yoshihiro Aizawa, Sayaka Kurokawa, Kimie Ohkubo, Koichi Nagashima, Ichiro Watanabe, Yasuo Okumura
Successful catheter ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation is associated with improvement in functional tricuspid regurgitation and right heart reverse remodeling
Kiho Itakura, Takayuki Hidaka, Yukiko Nakano, Hiroto Utsunomiya, Mirai Kinoshita, Hitoshi Susawa, Yu Harada, Kanako Izumi, Yasuki Kihara
First in human: the effects of biventricular pacing on cardiac output in severe pulmonary arterial hypertension
Ahmet Afşin Oktay, Stacy A. Mandras, Sangeeta Shah, Krishna Kancharla, Omar F. Shams, Mario I. Pascual, Daniel P. Morin
Engineering of functional cardiac tubes by stepwise transplantation of cardiac cell sheets onto intestinal mesentery
Noriyasu Masuda, Hidekazu Sekine, Hiroshi Niinami, Tatsuya Shimizu
Leaflet thickening and stent geometry in sutureless bioprosthetic aortic valves
Raquel Themudo, Mikael Kastengren, Elin Bacsovics Brolin, Kerstin Cederlund, Anders Svensson, Magnus Dalén
Cardiac troponin I is associated with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
Yue Zhou, Miao Yu, Jiansong Yuan, Shengwen Liu, Fenghuan Hu, Zhuoxuan Yang, Jingang Cui, Shubin Qiao