Combination therapy of eicosapentaenoic acid and pitavastatin for coronary plaque regression evaluated by integrated backscatter intravascular ultrasonography (CHERRY study)-rationale and design.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Elevated serum levels of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and N-terminal fragment of B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), and also increased arterial stiffness/abnormal central hemodynamics, are well-known risk factors for future cardiovascular events. The present study was conducted to clarify which of the two ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Kimura K,Tomiyama H,Matsumoto C,Odaira M,Shiina K,Nagata M,Yamashina A

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:Intraoperative epicardial two-dimensional and pulsed Doppler echocardiography (PDE) were performed for 44 patients undergoing open mitral valve surgery to determine the presence and severity of functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR). The findings of intraoperative epicardial PDE performed before cannulation for extra...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Tanaka M,Abe T,Hibi N

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Although tolvaptan is a recently approved drug for heart failure and causes aquaresis without affecting renal function, its clinical efficacy for patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is yet to be elucidated. METHODS AND RESULTS:We conducted a prospective observational study in patients wit...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Matsue Y,Suzuki M,Seya M,Iwatsuka R,Mizukami A,Nagahori W,Ohno M,Matsumura A,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical significance of the flow velocity of the superior vena cava (SVC) in old myocardial infarction (OMI) with severe left ventricular dysfunction were evaluated using pulsed Doppler echocardiography. The subjects consisted of 10 patients with OMI (averaged left ventricular ejection fraction: 0.37 +/- 0.11) an...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Iuchi K,Nakamura Y,Ishikawa T,Kaseno K

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：:Seventy heterozygous patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), aged 3 to 91 years (37 men and 33 women), from 38 different families were studied to ascertain their clinical profiles including the pattern of distribution of total cholesterol (TC), Achilles tendon thickness (ATT), and a sex difference in age at ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Miida T,Aizawa Y,Yamazoe M,Shibata A

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usefulness of 80 degrees head-up tilt testing with and without low dose isoproterenol provocation was evaluated for the diagnosis of neurally mediated syncope (NMS) in Japanese. Head-up tilt testing was performed in 114 consecutive patients with clinical diagnoses of NMS (68 men, 46 women, mean age 46 +/- 21 years...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Mineda Y,Sumiyoshi M,Nakazato Y,Nakata Y,Yamaguchi H

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：: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：:Ischemic preconditioning is an attenuation of myocardial ischemia by repeated brief coronary occlusions observed during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA). The effects of the time delay between balloon inflations during PTCA on ischemic preconditioning were investigated in 48 patients with chronic s...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Tanaka T,Oka Y,Tawara I,Sada T,Kira Y

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fabry disease is one of the causes of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and can be treated with enzyme replacement therapy or pharmacological chaperone therapy. Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) can identify myocardial fibrosis and be used for the stratification in LVH. H...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Nojiri A,Anan I,Morimoto S,Kawai M,Sakuma T,Kobayashi M,Kobayashi H,Ida H,Ohashi T,Eto Y,Shibata T,Yoshimura M,Hongo K

更新日期：2020-01-01 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:Nowadays, early detection and treatment can often keep chronic kidney disease patients from getting worse and prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. Cystatin C (Cys-C) is a new marker for renal dysfunction. This study investigated whether Cys-C played an important role for screening coronary arter...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Sekizuka H,Akashi YJ,Kawasaki K,Yamauchi M,Musha H

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients presented with transient left ventricular apical ballooning (takotsubo cardiomyopathy) induced by emotional stress caused by the Central Niigata Prefecture Earthquake in 2004. These patients complained of chest pain immediately after the earthquake. In patient 1, electrocardiography (ECG) showed slight ST...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Tagawa M,Nakamura Y,Ishiguro M,Satoh K,Chinushi M,Kodama M,Aizawa Y

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvement in left ventricular function following intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP) in 15 patients (aged 51 to 86 years) after coronary artery bypass grafting was evaluated. Using transesophageal atrial echocardiography, the mitral flow velocity integrals in the rapid filling phase (IntR) and in the contraction pha...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Shimamoto H,Kawazoe K,Kito Y,Ohara K,Kosakai Y,Tanaka K,Kumon K,Hirata T,Fujita T,Beppu S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No heart transplants have been performed in Japan due to various obstacles since the only operation performed in 1968. Since 1981, a number of patients requiring heart transplants have been accepted by foreign transplantation centers in England, the U.S.A., and Germany. This report describes an investigation of the po...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Hachida M,Koyanagi H,Matsuda H,Sono J,Akasaka T,Tanaka K,Nunoda S,Satomi G,Koike K,Miyamoto N,Omoto R

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The presence of late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is associated with worse clinical outcome and the extent of LGE predicts the increased risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Limited data exist regarding the distribution of LGE. We attempted to verify whether the presence o...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Klopotowski M,Kukula K,Malek LA,Spiewak M,Polanska-Skrzypczyk M,Jamiolkowski J,Dabrowski M,Baranowski R,Klisiewicz A,Kusmierczyk M,Jasinska A,Jarmus E,Kruk M,Ruzyllo W,Witkowski A,Chojnowska L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A one-hour protocol for stress myocardial scintigraphy using technetium-99m-tetrofosmin (Tc-tetrofosmin) was compared with coronary arteriography for the detection of coronary artery stenosis in 90 consecutive patients without prior myocardial infarction, revascularization procedure or vasospastic angina. Tc-tetrofosm...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Matsuda J,Miyamoto N,Onitsuka H,Ikushima I,Unoki T,Takenaga M,Koiwaya Y,Eto T

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of abnormal high signal intensity observed in left ventricular myocardium by gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepenta-acetic acid (Gd-DTPA) enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients was assessed by comparison with T1-weighted MR imaging, thallium-201 (201Tl) myoc...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Koito H,Suzuki J,Nakamori H,Ohkubo N,Wakayama Y,Iwasaka T,Inada M,Katoh T

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, the Embolic Risk French Calculator (ER-Calculator) was designed to predict symptomatic embolism (SE) associated with infective endocarditis (IE), but external validation has not been reported. This study aimed to determine predictors of SE and the diagnostic accuracy of the ER-Calculator in left-si...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Takahashi Y,Izumi C,Miyake M,Imanaka M,Kuroda M,Nishimura S,Yoshikawa Y,Amano M,Imamura S,Onishi N,Tamaki Y,Enomoto S,Tamura T,Kondo H,Kaitani K,Yamanaka K,Nakagawa Y

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis of mesenchymal cells in the diseased valve tissue of patients with rheumatic and non-rheumatic valve diseases were compared. Surgically resected mitral valves from eight rheumatic and eight non-rheumatic patients in their 40s were examined immunohistochemically to estimate the act...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Takeda A,Takeda N,Saitoh F,Ikeda Y,Sunayama S,Suzuki H,Kawai S,Okada R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients receiving chronic hemodialysis develop complicated coronary lesions with tortuosity and calcification, which make stent delivery or expansion difficult. Restenosis rates are also higher than in patients without hemodialysis. Furthermore, there is a risk of polymer rubbing from the surface of a sirol...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Suzuki K,Inoue N,Matsuo A,Shiono Y,Nakanishi N,Otsuki Y,Nishibori Y,Inoue K,Tanaka T,Fujita H,Kitamura M,Nishimura M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 66-year-old male patient with mitral regurgitation and atrial fibrillation underwent mitral valvuloplasty with a modified maze procedure. Follow-up echocardiography performed on the 4th postoperative day revealed a high echoic mass of 6.7 x 3.0 cm which appeared continuous to the left atrial wall and protruded into ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Shimozato A,Kaneko Y,Kim M,Takeuchi H,Oguri A,Yonemura S,Uozumi H,Kobayakawa N,Masuzawa A,Kobayashi J,Aoyagi T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 39 patients with idiopathic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF group), the incidence of the abnormal P wave morphology (prolonged P wave and mitral P in lead II and increased P terminal force in lead V1: PTF V1) was examined, and the relationships to the electrophysiologic findings of the atrial muscle were invest...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Liu Z,Hayano M,Hirata T,Quin Y,Tsukahara K,Ishimatsu T,Sakamoto R,Iliev I,Iwamoto K,Ueyama C,Yano K

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anticoagulant therapy is used for preventing cerebral infarction in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). However, in clinical practice, many patients with NVAF are not prescribed oral anticoagulants (OACs). In this study, we retrospectively investigated the prescription status of OACs at th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Deguchi I,Osada T,Takao M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ischemia-reperfusion causes endothelial injury and dysfunction in the infarct-related coronary artery (IRA). Using serial assessment of coronary endothelial vasomotor function and left ventriculography (LVG), this study prospectively investigated the clinical impact of endothelial vasomotor dysfunction in th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Obata JE,Horikoshi T,Nakamura T,Kugiyama K

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the clinical significance of iodine-123 beta-methyl-p-iodophenyl-pentadecanoic acid(BMIPP) single photon emission computed tomography(SPECT), the predictive value of BMIPP imaging in patients with angina pectoris was evaluated. METHODS:One hundred seventy-four patients who underwent BMIPP imaging ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Hatano T,Chikamori T,Kamada T,Morishima T,Hida S,Yanagisawa H,Iino H,Yamashina A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Higher systolic blood pressure (SBP) has been reported to be associated with a better prognosis in heart failure (HF) patients. This study aimed to investigate the prognostic impact of hypertension in patients hospitalized with systolic HF. METHODS:Pooled analysis of data from three Korean observational stu...

journal_title：Journal of cardiology

authors： Lee JH,Lee JW,Youn YJ,Ahn MS,Ahn SG,Kim JY,Lee SH,Yoon J,Oh J,Kang SM,Jeon ES,Choi DJ,Ryu KH,Yoo BS

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00