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Heart and Vessels

Issue 4/2018

Content (14 Articles)

Original Article

Impact of lesion complexity on long-term vascular response to cobalt–chromium everolimus-eluting stent: five-year follow-up optical coherence tomography study

Shoichi Kuramitsu, Shinjo Sonoda, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Hiroyuki Jinnouch, Yoshitaka Muraoka, Takenori Domei, Makoto Hyodo, Shinichi Shirai, Kenji Ando, Yutaka Otsuji

Original Article

Predictors of improvements in exercise capacity during cardiac rehabilitation in the recovery phase after coronary artery bypass graft surgery versus acute myocardial infarction

Yuji Suzuki, Kenichi Ito, Kazuya Yamamoto, Noriyuki Fukui, Hidetoshi Yanagi, Kazufumi Kitagaki, Harumi Konishi, Tetsuo Arakawa, Michio Nakanishi, Yoichi Goto

Original Article

The relationship between the time until commencement of tolvaptan and the length of hospital stay in heart failure patients

Shunsuke Kiuchi, Shinji Hisatake, Takayuki Kabuki, Takashi Oka, Shintaro Dobashi, Takahiro Fujii, Takanori Ikeda

Original Article

Good response to tolvaptan shortens hospitalization in patients with congestive heart failure

Tomohito Kogure, Kentaro Jujo, Kazuyuki Hamada, Katsumi Saito, Nobuhisa Hagiwara

Correction

Correction to: Good response to tolvaptan shortens hospitalization in patients with congestive heart failure

Tomohito Kogure, Kentaro Jujo, Kazuyuki Hamada, Katsumi Saito, Nobuhisa Hagiwara

Original Article

Increased serum Wisteria floribunda agglutinin positive Mac-2 binding protein (Mac-2 binding protein glycosylation isomer) in chronic heart failure: a pilot study

Atsushi Okada, Hideaki Kanzaki, Yasuhiro Hamatani, Seiji Takashio, Hiroyuki Takahama, Makoto Amaki, Takuya Hasegawa, Yasuo Sugano, Satoshi Yasuda, Toshihisa Anzai

Original Article

Late gadolinium enhancement on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is associated with coronary endothelial dysfunction in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy

Mina Nakayama, Megumi Yamamuro, Seiji Takashio, Tomoaki Uemura, Naoki Nakayama, Kyoko Hirakawa, Seitaro Oda, Daisuke Utsunomiya, Koichi Kaikita, Seiji Hokimoto, Yasuyuki Yamashita, Yukiko Morita, Kazuo Kimura, Kouichi Tamura, Kenichi Tsujita

Original Article

Thromboembolisms in atrial fibrillation and heart failure patients with a preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) compared to those with a reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF)

Yoshihiro Sobue, Eiichi Watanabe, Gregory Y. H. Lip, Masayuki Koshikawa, Tomohide Ichikawa, Mayumi Kawai, Masahide Harada, Joji Inamasu, Yukio Ozaki

Open Access Original Article

Effects of tolvaptan on urine output in hospitalized heart failure patients with hypoalbuminemia or proteinuria

Koji Takagi, Naoki Sato, Shiro Ishihara, Michiko Sone, Hideo Tokuyama, Kenji Nakama, Toshiya Omote, Arifumi Kikuchi, Masahiro Ishikawa, Kenichi Amitani, Naoto Takahashi, Yuji Maruyama, Hajime Imura, Wataru Shimizu

Original Article

Vasovagal syncope is associated with poor prognosis in patients with left ventricular dysfunction

Yoshiaki Yamaguchi, Koichi Mizumaki, Kunihiro Nishida, Tamotsu Sakamoto, Yosuke Nakatani, Naoya Kataoka, Koichiro Kinugawa, Hiroshi Inoue

Open Access Original Article

Early and late outcomes after open ascending aortic surgery: 47-year experience in a single centre

Emily Pan, Ville Kytö, Timo Savunen, Jarmo Gunn

Original Article

Assessment of renal perfusion impairment in a rat model of acute renal congestion using contrast-enhanced ultrasonography

Kaoru Komuro, Yoshihiro Seo, Masayoshi Yamamoto, Seika Sai, Tomoko Ishizu, Kyo Shimazu, Yumi Takahashi, Shogo Imagawa, Teisuke Anzai, Kazuya Yonezawa, Kazutaka Aonuma

Original Article

Bleeding risk of submuscular ICD implantation with continued oral anticoagulation versus heparin bridging therapy

Simon Pecha, Ayhan Ayikli, Iris Wilke, Samer Hakmi, Yalin Yildirim, Nils Gosau, Hermann Reichenspurner, Stephan Willems, Muhammet Ali Aydin