[Placement of the inferior vena cava filter proximal to the renal vein in a patient with left-sided inferior vena cava complicated by pulmonary embolism: a case report].

abstract：:To assess tricuspid regurgitation (TR) in patients with permanent transvenous right ventricular (RV) pacing, we performed phonocardiographic, contrast and pulsed Doppler echocardiographic studies in 18 patients with transvenous leads for RV pacing. In addition, a pathological study was performed on 26 autopsy cases wi...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Sakai M,Ohkawa S,Ueda K,Kin H,Watanabe C,Matsushita S,Kuramoto K,Sugiura M,Takahashi T,Takenaka K

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow flow or no-reflow is a serious complication during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), but little is known about the risk factors. A 64-year-old man underwent coronary angiography and PCI for stable angina. Pre-interventional intravascular ultrasound demonstrated an ultrasound attenuated coronary plaque, as...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Furuichi S,Itoh A,Ishibashi-Ueda H,Noguchi T,Miyawaki M,Nomura K,Arita Y,Otsuka M,Shindo T

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated levels of lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] have been associated with an increased risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD), and higher levels of Lp(a) are associated with lesions of significantly greater severity. We have examined Lp(a), total cholesterol (TC) and high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) levels in pati...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Nakamura Y,Yokoi Y,Hamaguchi H,Toyonaga T,Kondo T,Takami S,Kubo M,Matsuzawa Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left atrial (LA) enlargement has been documented to occur in hypertension (HT), and has been an index for evaluating the diastolic function of the left ventricle. Enlargement of the LA is one of the vital factors that induce heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with HT. METHODS AND SUBJECT...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Chen Y,Sato H,Watanabe N,Adachi T,Kodani N,Sato M,Takahashi N,Kitamura J,Sato H,Yamaguchi K,Yoshitomi H,Tanabe K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased left ventricular (LV) myocardial stiffness may be associated with impaired LV hemodynamics and incident heart failure (HF). However, an indicator that estimates LV myocardial stiffness easily and non-invasively is lacking. The purpose of this study was to determine whether diastolic wall strain (DW...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kamimura D,Suzuki T,Hall ME,Wang W,Winniford MD,Shah AM,Rodriguez CJ,Butler KR,Mosley TH

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During ergonovine-induced vasospastic angina, U wave inversion without significant ST segment deviation on the precordial electrocardiograms was documented in four patients. Coronary angiography revealed incomplete spastic obstruction of the left anterior descending artery without delayed filling and runoff in three p...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Masuda T,Yamakado T,Xu KC,Nakano T,Takezawa H

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although several clinical studies have evaluated plasma adiponectin levels in response to chronic heart failure, little is known about the relation between cardiac function and metabolic factors including adiponectin in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METHODS AND RESULTS:We analyzed 50 cons...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kimura K,Miura S,Iwata A,Sugihara M,Arimura T,Nishikawa H,Kawamura A,Saku K

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precipitating factors of repetitive exacerbation were investigated in 110 consecutive patients with chronic left heart failure admitted due to acute exacerbation more than twice to the medical emergency ward of National Cardiovascular Center from January, 1992 to December, 1996. The controls were 189 consecutive p...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Sasaki T,Yanagitani Y,Kubo T,Matsuo H,Miyatake K

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Kawasaki disease (KD), it has been clinically and experimentally reported that post-inflammatory vascular remodeling would induce the development of arteriosclerosis or early onset of atherosclerosis in the future. The effects of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors on cont...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Hamaoka A,Hamaoka K,Yahata T,Fujii M,Ozawa S,Toiyama K,Nishida M,Itoi T

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccines are primarily used worldwide as a preventive medicine for infectious diseases and have recently been applied to cancer. We and others have developed therapeutic vaccines designed for cardiovascular diseases that are notably different from previous vaccines. In the case of cancer vaccines, a specific protein i...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Nakagami H

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Few intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography trials have evaluated myocardial perfusion in small animals. The feasibility of using intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography to assess the ischemic area in rats was investigated. METHODS:Fourteen open chest Wister male rats were examined. Intrav...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kobayashi H,Beppu S,Hirayama H,Yagura S,Kashiwagi Y,Kayano H,Ishikura F

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We determined the effect of two-time inflation of the stent balloon on stent expansion and its responsible factor. METHODS:Subjects included 61 patients with de novo coronary artery lesions, in whom 12 sirolimus-eluting, 27 paclitaxel-eluting, and 22 other stents were deployed twice at identical inflation p...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Iwamoto Y,Okamoto M,Hashimoto M,Fukuda Y,Iwamoto A,Iwasaki T,Kinoshita H,Kihara Y

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 90-year-old woman was admitted to a local clinic with fever, anorexia, and right lower abdominal pain on March 25, 2004. She was referred to our hospital for detailed examination of an abdominal aortic aneurysm on May 18. Computed tomography revealed an abdominal aortic aneurysm measuring 78mm in maximal diameter an...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Saito N,Nishiya Y,Sotokawa M,Yusa H,Murata A,Hoshino S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treadmill exercise test (TET) is evaluated by exercise-induced ST-segment depression (delta ST). However, the depression sometimes only appears during the post-exercise period. Depression appearing only during the post-exercise period may be as useful as depression during exercise to predict coronary artery diseas...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Shinmura K,Suganuma Y,Hasegawa H,Tani M,Nakamura Y,Akaishi M,Ogawa S

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoventricular circular patch plasty (Dor operation) was used to treat end-stage dilated ischemic cardiomyopathy in 13 patients from January to December, 1997. There were 10 men and three women aged from 57 to 78 years (mean 63 years). Single, double, triple and left main trunk coronary disease was present in one, tw...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Suma H,Isomura T,Horii T,Ichihara T,Sato T,Nishimi M,Fujisaki H,Ukawa T,Iwahashi K

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The minimal energy requirement (Emin) for electrical cardioversion (ECV) reflects the atrial substrate in patients with long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation (L-PeAF), but the relationship between EminECV and radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) has not yet been studied. We hypothesize that EminECV...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kim IS,Kim TH,Yang PS,Uhm JS,Joung B,Lee MH,Pak HN

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left atrial (LA) size is an established predictor of recurrence after catheter ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). We investigated the impact of baseline LA function on recurrence after PAF ablation and compared the predictive values of LA function with those of LA size. METHODS:We retrospect...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Oka T,Tanaka K,Ninomiya Y,Hirao Y,Tanaka N,Okada M,Inoue H,Takayasu K,Kitagaki R,Koyama Y,Okamura A,Iwakura K,Sakata Y,Fujii K,Inoue K

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 44-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of congestive heart failure. He had various symptoms caused by insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, sensorineural deafness, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome and cardiomyopathy associated with mitochondrial DNA point mutation A3243G. Echocardiography had showed symme...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Ohmoto N,Fujiwara Y,Kibira S,Kobayashi M,Saito T,Miura M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the innovation of epoprostenol, a prostacyclin analog, providing treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in the 1990s, two types of oral drugs, endothelin receptor antagonists (ERAs) and phosphodiesterase V inhibitors, have further improved therapy for PAH. In contrast, it has become clear that the e...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Yao A

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relationship between ongoing myocardial damage and heart failure with preserved left ventricular systolic function (HF-PEF) is still unclear. To investigate this relationship, we measured the cardiac-specific cytosolic marker, heart-type fatty acid binding protein (H-FABP), and a myofibrillar component (...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kutsuzawa D,Arimoto T,Watanabe T,Shishido T,Miyamoto T,Miyashita T,Takahashi H,Niizeki T,Takeishi Y,Kubota I

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery often show poor nutritional status, muscle wasting, and sarcopenia, which are reported to affect postoperative functional recovery and incidence of complications. Amino acids are essential in maintaining nutritional status, synthesizing muscle protein, and promotin...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Ogawa M,Yoshida N,Satomi-Kobayashi S,Tsuboi Y,Komaki K,Wakida K,Gotake Y,Inoue T,Tanaka H,Yamashita T,Sakai Y,Izawa KP,Takahashi M,Ogawa W,Hirata KI

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether patients with syndrome X suffer from myocardial ischemia, coronary sinus oxygen saturation was continuously measured during pacing loading in 31 patients. Subjects were categorized by groups as syndrome X (11 patients), effort angina (14), and old myocardial infarction and valvular heart disease (...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Mikuniya A,Kikuchi F,Mikami M,Totsuka H,Narita T,Sasaki N,Takahashi M,Sato M,Onodera K,Oike Y

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a less invasive treatment for elderly patients with aortic stenosis. However, the cost of TAVI is a major issue. This study analyzed the cost effectiveness of TAVI in Japan. METHODS:We developed an economic model to evaluate the quality-adjusted life years (...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kodera S,Kiyosue A,Ando J,Komuro I

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the useful parameters of transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) for the diagnosis of stroke subtypes in patients with acute cerebral infarction. METHODS:One hundred and one acute ischemic stroke patients met all of the following criteria; > or = 50 years of age, normal sinus rhythm on admission...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Ling L,Hirono O,Okuyama H,Takeishi Y,Kayama T,Kubota I

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction has been increasing. However, the choice of treatment remains controversial. Medical records of 310 consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction were reviewed. Two retrospective analyses were performed. 1) Patients were divided into the elderly g...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kagoshima M,Miyashita Y,Takei K,Kawakami T,Ichikawa Y,Katai S,Abe K,Ito K,Sakurai S,Owa M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There has been no study elucidating whether cognitive impairment (CI) can provide additive prognostic information besides that provided by preexisting prognostic factors in elderly patients with heart failure. This study examined whether CI can provide additive prognostic information in elderly patients with...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Saito H,Yamashita M,Endo Y,Mizukami A,Yoshioka K,Hashimoto T,Koseki S,Shimode Y,Kitai T,Maekawa E,Kasai T,Kamiya K,Matsue Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine right (RV) and left ventricular (LV) volumes, a new technique was developed using ECG-gated single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). RV volumes of nine patients and LV volumes of 22 patients measured by SPECT and biplane contrast cineangiography were compared. In addition, volume and ejection f...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Katohno E,Ono K,Owada K,Fujino A,Watanabe N,Sato M,Konno I,Yaoita H,Tsuda F,Kariyone S

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Based on the importance of left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in stratification of the cardiac prognosis in patients with systolic heart failure (SHF), we attempted to identify the prognostic impact of Doppler echocardiographic examinations and plasma B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) concentration. ME...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Seo Y,Ishizu T,Kawano S,Watanabe S,Ishimitsu T,Aonuma K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The burden of cardiovascular disease is increasing, yet it remains difficult to focus preventive strategies on populations at highest absolute and relative risks. We compared absolute and relative cardiovascular event counts, plus time to first event, among patients undergoing myocardial perfusion scintigrap...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Nudi F,Neri G,Schillaci O,Pinto A,Procaccini E,Vetere M,Tomai F,Frati G,Biondi-Zoccai G

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular function was evaluated using parameters derived from the flow velocity waveforms at the ascending aorta as obtained at the suprasternal notch by continuous-wave Doppler echocardiography in 39 patients; 12 with chest pain but without coronary stenosis, eight with angina pectoris; and 19 with myocardial...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Ohte N,Nakano S,Hashimoto T,Narita H,Fujinami T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00