Issue 2/2018
Content (21 Articles)
Current status and issues of the artificial pancreas: abridged English translation of a special issue in Japanese
Tsutomu Namikawa, Masaya Munekage, Tomoaki Yatabe, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Kazuhiro Hanazaki
Differences in clotting parameters between species for preclinical large animal studies of cardiovascular devices
Toshihide Mizuno, Tomonori Tsukiya, Yoshiaki Takewa, Eisuke Tatsumi
Development of a novel shrouded impeller pediatric blood pump
Talha Irfan Khan, Haris Sheh Zad, Ismail Lazoglu, Ozlem Yalcin
Outflow graft anastomosis site design could be correlated to aortic valve regurgitation under left ventricular assist device support
Kei Iizuka, Tomohiro Nishinaka, Yuki Ichihara, Takuma Miyamoto, Kenji Yamazaki
Preclinical animal study of the NIPRO-ventricular assist device for use in pediatric patients
Noritsugu Naito, Yoshiaki Takewa, Satoru Kishimoto, Kei Iizuka, Toshihide Mizuno, Tomonori Tsukiya, Minoru Ono, Eisuke Tatsumi
Impact of mitral valve intervention with left ventricular assist device implantation on postoperative outcomes and morphologic change
Hiroki Hata, Tomoyuki Fujita, Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda, Kensuke Kuroda, Osamu Seguchi, Yorihiko Matsumoto, Masanobu Yanase, Takuma Sato, Seiko Nakajima, Norihide Fukushima, Junjiro Kobayashi
Diagnosis, medical treatment, and stepwise mechanical circulatory support for fulminat myocarditis
Shunsuke Saito, Koichi Toda, Shigeru Miyagawa, Yasushi Yoshikawa, Hiroki Hata, Daisuke Yoshioka, Keitaro Domae, Yasumasa Tsukamoto, Yasushi Sakata, Yoshiki Sawa
Effect of obesity on outcomes in patients undergoing implantation of continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices
Nastasya Volkovicher, Chitaru Kurihara, Andre Critsinelis, Masashi Kawabori, Tadahisa Sugiura, Marcos Manon II, Andrew B. Civitello, Jeffrey A. Morgan
Continuous renal replacement therapy with a polymethyl methacrylate membrane hemofilter suppresses inflammation in patients after open-heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass
Hiroshi Mukaida, Satoshi Matsushita, Takahiro Inotani, Atsushi Nakamura, Atsushi Amano
Soluble fibrin is a useful marker for predicting extracorporeal membrane oxygenation circuit exchange because of circuit clots
Kota Hoshino, Kentaro Muranishi, Yasumasa Kawano, Hiroki Hatomoto, Shintaro Yamasaki, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Hiroyasu Ishikura
Inhalative sedation with small tidal volumes under venovenous ECMO
Axel Rand, Peter K. Zahn, Thomas A. Schildhauer, Christian Waydhas, Uwe Hamsen
Correction to: Inhalative sedation with small tidal volumes under venovenous ECMO
Axel Rand, Peter K. Zahn, Thomas A. Schildhauer, Christian Waydhas, Uwe Hamsen
Effect of heat stress on contractility of tissue-engineered artificial skeletal muscle
Shunya Takagi, Tomohiro Nakamura, Toshia Fujisato
Acetaminophen clearance during ex vivo continuous renal replacement therapies
Bridget A. Scoville, Vera Vulaj, Bruce A. Mueller, Gail M. Annich, Deborah S. Wagner
Adsorptive filtration systems for effective removal of blood amyloid β: a potential therapy for Alzheimer’s disease
Nobuya Kitaguchi, Kazunori Kawaguchi, Kazunori Yamazaki, Hiroshi Kawachi, Miwa Sakata, Megumi Kaneko, Masao Kato, Kazuyoshi Sakai, Norimi Ohashi, Midori Hasegawa, Yoshiyuki Hiki, Yukio Yuzawa
Vascularization of pancreatic decellularized scaffold with endothelial progenitor cells
Yibing Guo, Cen Wu, Liancheng Xu, Yang Xu, Li Xiaohong, Zhu Hui, Lu Jingjing, Yuhua Lu, Zhiwei Wang
Rapid prototyping prosthetic hand acting by a low-cost shape-memory-alloy actuator
Enrique Soriano-Heras, Fernando Blaya-Haro, Carlos Molino, José María de Agustín del Burgo
Application of actuator-driven pulsed water jet for coronary artery bypass grafting: assessment in a swine model
Tomoyuki Suzuki, Shunsuke Kawamoto, Atsuhiro Nakagawa, Toshiki Endo, Teiji Tominaga, Masatoshi Akiyama, Osamu Adachi, Kiichiro Kumagai, Yoshikatsu Saiki
Investigation of adverse events associated with an off-label use of arterial stents and CE-marked iliac vein stents in the iliac vein: insights into developing a better iliac vein stent
Takuya Shida, Mitsuo Umezu, Kiyotaka Iwasaki
A case report of the first application of culture epithelial autograft (JACE®) for giant congenital melanocytic nevus after its approval in Japan
Naoki Morimoto, Natsuko Kakudo, Ayako Kako, Keiko Nishimura, Toshihito Mitsui, Ryohei Miyake, Atsuyuki Kuro, Masakatsu Hihara, Kenji Kusumoto