Effects of atorvastatin on inflammation and oxidative stress.

abstract：:Due to the complex profile of atherosclerotic risk factors, an integrated analysis of a specific individual is difficult. Endothelial function reflects a composite of various risk factors, and may be used as an optimal tool to estimate the overall atherosclerotic risk. In this study, we investigated the value of digit...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kang J,Kim HL,Seo JB,Lee JY,Moon MK,Chung WY

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to clarify the pathogenesis of acute myocardial infarction (MI) in hearts with normal coronary arteries, infarct size, and the extent of contraction band necrosis (CBN), coagulation necrosis, and hemorrhage were quantitatively examined using an image analyzer in 5 autopsy cases of MI with normal or nearly nor...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Wu DJ,Fujiwara H,Matsuda M,Ishida M,Kawamura A,Takemura G,Kida M,Uegaito T,Fujiwara T,Kawai C

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although drug-eluting stents (DES) for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have dramatically reduced the incidence of in-stent restenosis, their deployment for large-size coronary lesions is still controversial because of problems such as late in-stent thrombosis and late catch-up in DES. We aimed to evaluate the...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Yoshida T,Sakata K,Nitta Y,Taguchi T,Kaku B,Katsuda S,Shimojima M,Gamou T,Nakahashi T,Konno T,Kawashiri MA,Yamagishi M,Hayashi K

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although drug-eluting stents have improved clinical outcomes, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remains a challenging procedure in terms of thrombus management. A new-generation P2Y12 receptor inhibitor, prasugrel, provides more rapid and potent antiplatelet action compared wit...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Naito K,Nakano Y,Waseda K,Takashima H,Ando H,Sakurai S,Suzuki A,Saka Y,Sawada H,Nagahiro S,Suzuki M,Shimoda M,Amano T

更新日期：2020-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to the general population, elderly patients with cardiovascular disease have a higher prevalence of sarcopenia, and it shows an association with increased mortality risk. Although several studies have indicated that atherosclerosis may cause sarcopenia in community dwelling elderly subjects, the association b...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Uchida S,Kamiya K,Hamazaki N,Matsuzawa R,Nozaki K,Ichikawa T,Suzuki Y,Nakamura T,Yamashita M,Kariya H,Maekawa E,Yamaoka-Tojo M,Matsunaga A,Ako J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AST-120 has been used widely in Japan to slow the deterioration of renal function in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) by decreasing uremic toxins. The heart and the kidney are closely related, with cardiorenal interaction being very important. This retrospective study examined whether AST-120 influences the ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sato E,Tanaka A,Oyama J,Yamasaki A,Shimomura M,Hiwatashi A,Ueda Y,Amaha M,Nomura M,Matsumura D,Nakamura T,Node K

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular (LV) dilatation following myocardial infarction (MI) is a major determinant of the patient's prognosis, and myocardial energy metabolism may play a key role in LV remodeling. We aimed to investigate the relative timing of LV dilatation to LV function, myocardial energy regulation by uncoupling protein...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Guo P,Mizushige K,Noma T,Murakami K,Namba T,Ishizawa M,Tsuji T,Kimura S,Kohno M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional echocardiographic measurements of the right and left ventricles from the parasternal long-axis and apical four-chamber views and an estimated right ventricular-left ventricular dimensional ratio were obtained in 173 normal subjects, ranging from 1 day to 15 years of age. The end-diastolic dimensions of...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Ichida F,Denef B,Dumoulin M,Van der Hauwaert LG

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1987 and 1989, twenty-two patients who received combined heart-lung transplantation were autopsied at La Pitie Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. With the exception of two recipients who survived for 2 months and 4 months, respectively, the majority of the patients died in the early postoperative period (the mean ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Ishibashi-Ueda H,Chomette G,Delcourt A,Auriol M,Le Charpentier Y,Cabrol C

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a major cause of death in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Systemic ventricular dysfunction is a reported risk factor for SCA. We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 46 patients (age >6 years) who experienced SCA. The following underlying cardiac defects were obs...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Miyazaki A,Sakaguchi H,Ohuchi H,Yasuda K,Tsujii N,Matsuoka M,Yamamoto T,Yazaki S,Tsuda E,Yamada O

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the influence of global longitudinal strain (GLS) measured with two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography on left ventricular mass regression (LVMR) in patients with pure aortic stenosis (AS) and normal left ventricular function undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR). The study population includ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Gelsomino S,Lucà F,Parise O,Lorusso R,Rao CM,Vizzardi E,Gensini GF,Maessen JG

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver cirrhosis (LC), which may result in hepatic failure or cancer, has been reported in patients after Fontan procedure. The purpose of this study was to clarify the frequency and histological characteristics of LC, and to evaluate the risk factors and serological markers of LC with Fontan circulation. Retrospective...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Shimizu M,Miyamoto K,Nishihara Y,Izumi G,Sakai S,Inai K,Nishikawa T,Nakanishi T

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early and long-term outcomes in elderly patients who underwent isolated aortic valve replacement (iAVR) are well defined. Conflicting data exist in elderly patients who underwent AVR plus coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). We sought to evaluate the early and long-term outcomes of combined AVR + CABG in patients o...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Formica F,Mariani S,D'Alessandro S,Singh G,Di Mauro M,Cerrito MG,Messina LA,Scianna S,Papesso F,Sangalli F

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to conscious sedation (CS), the use of general anesthesia (GA) in pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) is associated with a lower recurrence rate of atrial fibrillation (AF). GA may improve catheter stability and mapping system accuracy compared to CS, but its influence on contact force (CF) parameters during ipsil...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Chikata A,Kato T,Yaegashi T,Sakagami S,Kato C,Saeki T,Kawai K,Takashima SI,Murai H,Usui S,Furusho H,Kaneko S,Takamura M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) experience GERD-related chest pain, but little is known about the relationship between GERD and coronary artery disease (CAD). We evaluated medical history of GERD in patients with suspected CAD and its association with types of CAD. We enrolle...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Teragawa H,Oshita C,Ueda T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial perfusion and perfusion reserve are diminished in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Phase-contrast (PC) cine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the coronary sinus serves as a non-invasive means of quantifying coronary flow reserve (CFR) without any radioactive tracer. The present study aimed to evalu...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sugimoto Y,Kato S,Fukui K,Iwasawa T,Utsunomiya D,Kimura K,Tamura K

更新日期：2021-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) differentiation and phenotypic modulation are characterized by changes in gene expression for smooth muscle (SM) marker contractile proteins such as SM alpha-actin and SM22alpha. Hyperplasia suppressor gene (HSG) is a potent VSMC proliferation-inhibiting factor; however, it is not kn...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Jiang GJ,Han M,Zheng B,Wen JK

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological and functional changes of free arterial grafts in dogs were studied for 3 weeks after implantation and the changes were compared to those in implanted free vein grafts. In the arterial grafts, endothelial cells with abundant pinocytotic vesicles and some cytoplasmic folds were observed by transmission an...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Isomura T,Hisatomi K,Inuzuka H,Nishimi M,Hirano A,Ohishi K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to evaluate systemic right ventricular (RV) dyssynchrony in patients with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (CCTGA) and transposition of the great arteries (TGA) with New York Heart Association functional class (NYHA FC) < III. We used cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Shiina Y,Inai K,Takahashi T,Taniguchi K,Watanabe E,Fukushima K,Niwa K,Nagao M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether brief repeated myocardial ischemia altered free radical generating and scavenging activity in a dog model. In dogs preconditioned with four 5-min left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) occlusions and reperfusions, we examined transcardiac changes in both the function of neutrophils,...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Hoshida S,Kuzuya T,Yamashita N,Oe H,Fuji H,Hori M,Tada M,Kamada T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During left nephrectomy in a 35-year-old woman with a left renal cell carcinoma extending into the inferior vena cava (IVC) and right atrium, cardiac arrest occurred. Immediate transesophageal echocardiography demonstrated that the event was caused by a pulmonary tumor embolism. Emergent cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) w...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Nagasaka S,Taniguchi S,Kobayashi S,Kawata T,Mizuguchi K,Hirao Y,Kitamura S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relations of the light chains of myosins of the atria, ventricles, and atrioventricular conducting tissue (specialized myocardial tissue) and the distribution of the light chains of myosin in different regions of the atrioventricular conducting tissue in bovine heart were examined. Two-dimensional gel electrophore...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Tamura Y,Orino S,Saijyo Y,Nishimoto T,Nagase N,Mori H

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the surgical results of papillary muscle approximation (PMA) and papillary muscle relocation (PMR) for functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) and to compare the effects of both procedures on the change in mitral regurgitation (MR) and echocardiogram parameters associated with t...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Furukawa K,Yano M,Nakamura E,Matsuyama M,Nishimura M,Kawagoe K,Nakamura K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to determine whether pentraxin-3 (PTX-3) is clinically a biomarker of inflammation, a player in anti-inflammation, or both with regard to coronary atherosclerosis, we compared levels of PTX-3 with levels of adiponectin in addition to high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP). We enrol...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Nakamura A,Miura S,Shiga Y,Norimatsu K,Miyase Y,Suematsu Y,Mitsutake R,Saku K

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cardiac angiotensin II-generating system is thought to be involved in cardiac fibrosis. Both angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) and human chymase can convert angiotensin I to angiotensin II. However, the relative contributions of these two enzymatic pathways to angiotensin II generation in vivo remain to be clarifi...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Ohmichi N,Iwai N,Shimoike H,Izumi M,Watarida S,Mori A,Nakamura Y,Kinoshita M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiofrequency catheter ablation of an atrial tachycardia (AT) and atrial fibrillation (AF) was performed in a patient with a history of pulmonary vein isolation for paroxysmal AF. The AT exhibited a centrifugal pattern with the posterolateral LA as the earliest activation site. The AT was not terminated by ablation a...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kuroki K,Tada H,Kunugida F,Sekiguchi Y,Machino T,Yamasaki H,Igarashi M,Aonuma K

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) with severe diastolic dysfunction is a major cause of heart failure and sudden cardiac death (SCD) associated with lethal arrhythmia. Although various risk factors for cardiac events have been reported in HCM patients, previous studies have reported that some HCM patients exhibit eith...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sugiura Y,Morimoto R,Aoki S,Yamaguchi S,Haga T,Kuwayama T,Yokoi T,Hiraiwa H,Kondo T,Watanabe N,Kano N,Fukaya K,Sawamura A,Okumura T,Murohara T

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increase in epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) volume is associated with the development of atrial fibrillation (AF) and coronary artery disease (CAD), but little is known about differences in its distribution. METHODS AND RESULTS:We included 50 patients with paroxysmal AF (PAF), 50 patients with CAD, and 5...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Hasebe H,Yoshida K,Nogami A,Ieda M

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subendocardial side of myocardium makes a major contribution to left ventricular (LV) contraction and is very susceptible to ischemia. In this study we sought to quantify regional wall motion during low-dose dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) by using the myocardial velocity gradient (MVG) derived from tissu...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Tsutsui H,Uematsu M,Yamagishi M,Haruta S,Shimakura T,Miyatake K

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While oxidized lipoprotein(a) (oxLp(a)) has been indicated to be involved in atherogenesis more than native lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)), there is still a need to elucidate the associations among oxLp(a), hypertension, and atherosclerosis. The cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) is a recently developed index used to assess a...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kotani K,Yamada S,Yamada T,Kario K,Taniguchi N

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00