[Pulmonary vein orifice cryoablation for atrial fibrillation with mitral valve disease using a specially designed cryo-probe].

abstract：:To assess the relative importance of the anatomical characteristics of the coronary artery distribution and the sites of the arterial stenoses in relation to infarct size, 21 patients with old myocardial infarction and angiographically-proven 90% or greater stenoses (AHA classification) of one of the major coronary ar...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kamihata H,Kurimoto T,Shimada T,Karakawa M,Matsuura T,Ogura E,Hata T,Hamaguchi Y,Inada M,Nishiyama Y

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histopathological study of coronary arteries in patients with acute coronary syndromes was carried out. The results of this study are as follows: 1. A high incidence of thrombus formation, corresponding to the site of the infarction, was observed in cases with acute myocardial infarction. 2. Coronary thrombi contain...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Horie T

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The relationship between plasma low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) is known, but the other characteristics of LDL, particularly particle size and density, are unclear. The relationship between small dense LDL phenotype and non-diabetic, normocholesterolemi...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Koba S,Hirano T,Sakaue T,Sakai K,Kondo T,Yorozuya M,Suzuki H,Murakami M,Katagiri T

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of the early maximal negative T wave on electrocardiography was evaluated in 74 patients with initial acute anterior myocardial infarction (MI) admitted within 6 hours of onset. The relationship between the negative T wave and the severity of MI, as assessed by MI size and left ventricular dysfunction...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Takigawa O,Kanemoto N,Handa S

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous transvenous mitral valvuloplasty (PTMV) using the Inoue balloon was performed in 18 patients with symptomatic mitral stenosis. They were seven men and 11 women, ranging in age from 38 to 77 years (mean 59 +/- 10 years). Among them, 13 were categorized as NYHA class II; four as class III; and one as class ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Saito S,Ohtani K,Mochizuki T,Tohjo O,Arai H,Kubori S

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 71-year-old woman was admitted to our department because of acute myocarditis. She was ameliorated with conventional heart failure treatment, however she developed left ventricular dilatation and cardiac troponin T (cTnT) was elevated again to >1.0 ng/ml 6 month after the first admission. She was re-admitted because...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kadota S,Takeuchi Y,Izuhara M,Baba O,Shioji K,Uegaito T,Kadota E,Matsuda M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early graft failure can affect the short- and long-term outcomes of patients undergoing coronary bypass grafting surgery (CABG). The aim of our study was to explore the predictive value of transit-time flow measurement (TTFM) parameters for early graft failure (before discharge) after CABG in different coron...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Zhang G,Zhao Z,Han Z,Gao Q,Liu J,Chen Y

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of public-access automated external defibrillators (AEDs) has become common in Japan. To provide a strategy for appropriate public-access AED deployment, we assessed public-access defibrillation (PAD) by laypersons and the outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) among adult patients ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kobayashi D,Sado J,Kiyohara K,Kitamura T,Kiguchi T,Nishiyama C,Okabayashi S,Shimamoto T,Matsuyama T,Kawamura T,Iwami T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early recognition of cardiac arrest is essential for increasing the likelihood of successful resuscitation. However, many factors could obstruct the recognition of cardiac arrest and delay the delivery of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use. We have developed a new system u...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Hatakeyama T,Kobayashi D,Otani T,Nishimura T,Hidari H,Miyoshi H,Sakaida K,Kawamura T,Iwami T

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and subsequent post-cardiac arrest syndrome are often compromised by multi-organ failure. The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score has been used to predict clinical outcome of patients requiring intensive care for multi-organ failure. Th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Matsuda J,Kato S,Yano H,Nitta G,Kono T,Ikenouchi T,Murata K,Kanoh M,Inamura Y,Takamiya T,Negi K,Sato A,Yamato T,Inaba O,Morita H,Matsumura Y,Nitta J,Yonetsu T

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Atrioventricular (AV) block is one of the main clinical manifestations in patients with cardiac sarcoidosis (CS). Although steroid therapy is considered to be effective for AV block, the efficacy has not been demonstrated in detail. METHODS AND RESULTS:Fifteen CS patients presenting with advanced or complet...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Yodogawa K,Seino Y,Shiomura R,Takahashi K,Tsuboi I,Uetake S,Hayashi H,Horie T,Iwasaki YK,Hayashi M,Miyauchi Y,Shimizu W

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies on primary cardiac tumors were mainly based on small case series collected from a limited number of institutions. Contemporary data of patients with primary cardiac tumors treated with or without surgery in a nationwide clinical setting are limited. METHODS:Using the Diagnosis Procedure Com...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Isogai T,Yasunaga H,Matsui H,Tanaka H,Hisagi M,Fushimi K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 66-year-old woman had suffered from repeated heart failure beginning 6 years after mitral valve replacement. Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm was discovered 9 years after the replacement, while no evidence including histology was obtained for the cause of the pseudoaneurysm except the mitral valve replacement. The pr...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Emoto R,Takeuchi S,Terashima M,Hattori K,Mori T,Awano K,Masuda J,Hayakawa M,Inadome T,Fukuzaki H,Nakamura H,Tobe S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 76-year-old female had undergone implantation of a single chamber pacemaker for sick sinus syndrome 20 years previously. She developed chronic atrial fibrillation and required repeated admission due to congestive heart failure. She had significant mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. Paradoxical movement of the intra...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Yamakawa Y,Ishikawa T,Uchino K,Sumita S,Mochida Y,Ebina T,Kobayashi S,Kobayashi T,Matsushita K,Okusu Y,Tanaka Y,Kitamura Y,Umemura S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old man had suffered episodes of loss of consciousness since childhood. He was admitted to another hospital because of three syncopal episodes in one day. He was referred to our hospital because of asymptomatic multiple lacunae indicating cerebral infarction on magnetic resonance imaging. He lost consciousne...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Matsushita K,Ishikawa T,Sumita S,Kobayashi T,Kawasaki N,Matsumoto K,Taima M,Ishigami T,Sugano T,Nakazawa I,Ogawa H,Uchino K,Kimura K,Umemura S

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography is used clinically, but use in small animals has not been evaluated. The conditions for myocardial opacification and the feasibility of myocardial contrast echocardiography were examined in mice. METHODS:Closed chest mice were examined. The lef...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Hirayama H,Ishikura F,Okuda K,Hirano T,Kobayashi H,Beppu S

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report of a 65-year-old man with end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy, and first-degree atrioventricular (AV) block, which had been resistant to intensive medical therapy and was eventually treated using a DDD pacemaker. The optimal AV interval setting was determined using invasive right heart catheterization an...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kataoka H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of devices can now provide mechanical circulatory support (MCS) to patients with acute cardiogenic shock (CS) and chronic end-stage heart failure (HF). Women differ from men in pathophysiology and natural history of CS and HF, and are usually sicker at admission. Current evidence suggests that women benefit a...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Dayanand S,Martinez JM,Figueredo VM,Gupta S

更新日期：2020-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocyte injury might be involved in the progression of essential hypertension (EHT) toward heart failure (HF). However, in the absence of high-sensitivity (hs) assay, cardiac troponin T (TnT) in EHT has not been measurable. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studied 236 consecutive ambulatory patients (mean age=65.5 ye...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Sato Y,Yamamoto E,Sawa T,Toda K,Hara T,Iwasaki T,Fujiwara H,Takatsu Y

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) are at high risk of atherosclerotic events. The aim of this meta-analysis is to evaluate the cardiovascular protective effect of colchicine on patients with CAD. METHODS:In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we searched PubMed and Embase for studies publish...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Tien YY,Huang HK,Shih MC,Tu YK

更新日期：2020-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of verapamil on myocardial ischemia in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was evaluated by exercise myocardial 201Tl SPECT (EX-Tl). EX-Tl was performed before and after 8.1 +/- 6.1 weeks of oral administration of verapamil (240 mg/day) on 20 patients with HCM who showed transient 201Tl perfusio...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Taniguchi Y,Sugihara H,Ohtsuki K,Umamoto I,Nakagawa T,Shiga K,Nakamura T,Azuma A,Kohno Y,Nakagawa M

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:In nine patients with cardiac dysfunction (ejection fraction less than or equal to 50%), we evaluated the effects of dobutamine (5 micrograms/kg/min) on ventriculo-arterial coupling by monitoring direct arterial pressures and simultaneously-recorded M-mode echocardiograms guided with two-dimensional images. Left ventr...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Ishizaka S,Asanoi H,Kameyama T,Sasayama S

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the clinical characteristics and electrocardiographic findings of 7 patients having the acquired long QT syndrome who developed torsades de pointes while receiving no antiarrhythmic drugs. A total of 43 episodes of torsades de pointes were documented among these patients. Underlying heart diseases were pre...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Takahashi N,Ito M,Inoue T,Koumatsu K,Takeshita Y,Tsumabuki S,Tamura M,Inoue K,Maeda T,Saikawa T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The optimal treatment strategies for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in older patients are unclear because of the high risk of mortality in this population. Hypoalbuminemia, frailty, and body mass index (BMI) have been reported to worsen the prognosis of some older patients with cardiovascul...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Sujino Y,Tanno J,Nakano S,Funada S,Hosoi Y,Senbonmatsu T,Nishimura S

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Triple antithrombotic therapy increases the risk of bleeding events in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) compared with dual anti-platelet therapy (DAPT). However, whether warfarin control is associated with reduced cardiovascular events and major bleeding events in patients undergo...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Konishi H,Miyauchi K,Kasai T,Tsuboi S,Ogita M,Naito R,Dohi T,Tamura H,Okazaki S,Daida H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study evaluated the long-term outcomes of successfully implanted S670 and NIR stents. METHODS:Stents were successfully implanted in 143 patients (148 lesions) aged 65 +/- 9 years from January 1999 to April 2001. Sixty-eight lesions were treated with S670 stents and 80 with NIR stents. Quantitative coro...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kawaguchi R,Hoshizaki H,Oshima S,Meguro K,Miyazaki A,Ito S,Hiratsuji T,Tsurugaya H,Ito I,Sekiguchi M,Seta Y,Adachi H,Toyama T,Naito S,Taniguchi K

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exercise stress test with a bicycle ergometer was performed for 31 patients with mitral stenosis and for 10 normal subjects. The patients were categorized in two groups. Group 1 consisted of 16 patients having indication for surgical intervention and Group 2 consisted of 15 patients without such surgical indicatio...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kawauchi M,Matsunaga H,Makuuchi H,Okabe H,Miyairi T,Morizuki O,Furuse A

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the quality of life (QOL) of Japanese patients with ischemic heart disease. METHODS:The QOL data of 753 patients with chronic and stable ischemic heart disease was assessed using SF-36 Japanese version 1.2 and compared with Japanese national norms. Physical (PCS) and Mental Component Summary ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Nishiyama S,Momomura S,Ishiwata S,Daida H,Hara K,Nishimura S,Nakamura M,Yamashina A,Shirai T,Yutaro N,Yamazaki T,Research Group of Quality of Life for Ischemic Heart Disease.

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A single and local administration of L-arginine after balloon angioplasty enhances nitric oxide (NO) generation and inhibits lesion formation in animals. OBJECTIVES:The present study assessed the effect of increasing NO to inhibit restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in hum...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Shiraki T,Takamura T,Kajiyama A,Oka T,Saito D

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00