Issue 1/2020
Content (18 Articles)
Flow cytometric characterization of the saphenous veins endothelial cells in patients with chronic venous disease and in patients undergoing bypass surgery: an exploratory study
Cláudia Torres, Rui Machado, Margarida Lima
Is there really a benefit of using minimized cardiopulmonary bypass in CABG? A retrospective propensity score-matched study with 5000 cases
Zdenek Provaznik, Florian Zeman, Daniele Camboni, Marcus Creutzenberg, Christoph Unterbuchner, Alois Philipp, Maik Foltan, Christof Schmid, Bernhard Floerchinger
Effect of cigarette smoking on carotid artery atherosclerosis: a community-based cohort study
Hiroyuki Kiriyama, Hidehiro Kaneko, Hidetaka Itoh, Yuriko Yoshida, Koki Nakanishi, Yoshiko Mizuno, Masao Daimon, Hiroyuki Morita, Nobutake Yamamichi, Issei Komuro
Lack of implementation of guidelines recommendations for coronary revascularization in stable patients with complex disease is associated with high rates of incomplete revascularization
Marcello Marino, Sergio Leonardi, Gabriele Crimi, Maurizio Ferrario, Giuseppe Musumeci, Giuseppe Tarantini, Corrado Lettieri, Luca Bettari, Lettino Maddalena, Leonardo De Luca, Ferdinando Varbella, Stefano De Servi
Optical coherence tomography characteristics of in-stent restenosis after drug-eluting stent implantation: a novel classification and its clinical significance
Wataru Yamamoto, Kenichi Fujii, Satoru Otsuji, Shin Takiuchi, Mikio Kakishita, Motoaki Ibuki, Katsuyuki Hasegawa, Kasumi Ishibuchi, Hiroto Tamaru, Shingo Yasuda, Rui Ishii, Sho Nakabayashi, Hirofumi Kusumoto, Yorihiko Higashino
C1 esterase inhibitor in pediatric cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass plays a vital role in activation of the complement system
Takashi Miyamoto, Shinichi Ozaki, Akitoshi Inui, Yuki Tanaka, Yoshiyuki Yamada, Naoki Matsumoto
Thrombospondin-4 increases with the severity of peripheral arterial disease and is associated with diabetes
Bernhard Zierfuss, Clemens Höbaus, Carsten T. Herz, Gerfried Pesau, Renate Koppensteiner, Gerit-Holger Schernthaner
Predictors of responders for low-dose carperitide monotherapy in patients with acute heart failure
Masataka Kamiya, Naoki Sato, Junya Matsuda, Ayaka Nozaki, Mai Akiya, Taisuke Sato, Hirotake Okazaki, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Wataru Shimizu
Occurrence of right ventricular dysfunction immediately after pericardiocentesis
Masashi Amano, Chisato Izumi, Megumi Baba, Rie Abe, Hayato Matsutani, Shunsuke Nishimura, Maiko Kuroda, Takeshi Harita, Suguru Nishiuchi, Jiro Sakamoto, Yodo Tamaki, Soichiro Enomoto, Makoto Miyake, Hirokazu Kondo, Toshihiro Tamura, Yoshihisa Nakagawa
Elevated lymphatic vessel density measured by Lyve-1 expression in areas of replacement fibrosis in the ventricular septum of patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM)
Xiaowei Jiang, Jingang Cui, Chengzhi Yang, Yunhu Song, Jiansong Yuan, Shengwen Liu, Fenghuan Hu, Weixian Yang, Shubin Qiao
Associations of left ventricular shape with left ventricular volumes and functions assessed by ECG-gated SPECT in patients without significant perfusion abnormality
Kazuhiro Nitta, Satoshi Kurisu, Ramandika Erasta, Yoji Sumimoto, Hiroki Ikenaga, Ken Ishibashi, Yukihiro Fukuda, Yasuki Kihara
Pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis: a risk factor analysis for early and late failure
Giuseppe Gatti, Antonio Fiore, Julien Ternacle, Aldostefano Porcari, Ilaria Fiorica, Angela Poletti, Fiona Ecarnot, Rossana Bussani, Aniello Pappalardo, Sidney Chocron, Thierry Folliguet, Andrea Perrotti
Outcome in patients undergoing upgrade to cardiac resynchronization therapy: predictors of outcome after upgrade to CRT
Jedrzej Kosiuk, Michelle Krause, Michael Doering, Alexander Weber, Ole A. Breithardt, Borislav Dinov, Angeliki Darma, Johannes Lucas, Andreas Muessigbrodt, Kerstin Bode, Michael Kuehl, Nikolaos Dagres, Gerhard Hindricks, Andreas Bollmann, Sergio Richter
Creatinine clearance and inappropriate dose of rivaroxaban in Japanese patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation
Naoharu Yagi, Shinya Suzuki, Takuto Arita, Takayuki Otsuka, Hiroaki Semba, Hiroto Kano, Shunsuke Matsuno, Yuko Kato, Tokuhisa Uejima, Yuji Oikawa, Junji Yajima, Minoru Matsuhama, Takeshi Yamashita
Periprocedural hypotension after conscious sedation versus local anesthesia during defibrillator implantation for left ventricular dysfunction: analysis of a national inpatient database in Japan
Yusuke Ugata, Nobuaki Michihata, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga
Circulatory dynamics changes are an additional predictor of successful pulmonary vein isolation during cryoballoon ablation
Takatsugu Kajiyama, Shinsuke Miyazaki, Rikuta Hamaya, Tomonori Watanabe, Kazuya Yamao, Shigeki Kusa, Miyako Igarashi, Hiroaki Nakamura, Hitoshi Hachiya, Yoshito Iesaka
Sequential coronary bifurcation revascularization with the Xposition S™ self-apposing stent: a comparative fractal bench study
François Dérimay, Luc Maillard, Gilles Rioufol, Géraud Souteyrand, Adel Aminian, Joëlle Veziers, Patrice Guerin, Gérard Finet
Clinical characteristics of patients with sustained ventricular arrhythmias after sacubitril/valsartan initiation
Lourdes Vicent, Francisco Méndez-Zurita, Xavier Viñolas, Concepción Alonso-Martín, Carles Moliner Arbòs, Julia Pamies, R. Oscar Alcalde, Miriam Juárez, Vanesa Bruña, Carolina Devesa, Iago Sousa-Casasnovas, Francisco Fernández-Avilés, Manuel Martínez-Sellés