Indication of aortocoronary by-pass for coronary arterial obstruction due to Kawasaki disease.

abstract：:Intracoronary acetylcholine (ACh) provocation test is useful to diagnose vasospastic angina. Although outpatient coronary angiography has been widely performed in current clinical settings, the feasibility and safety of ACh provocation test in outpatient services are unclear. A total of 323 patients, who electively un...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Saito Y,Kitahara H,Shoji T,Tokimasa S,Nakayama T,Sugimoto K,Fujimoto Y,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 153 patients with doubly committed subarterial ventricular septal defect (DCVSD) who underwent intracardiac repair were analyzed to evaluate factors responsible for aortic valve leaflet deformity. The patients were divided into two groups according to their echocardiographic and angiographic features as...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kobayashi J,Koike K,Senzaki H,Kobayashi T,Tsunemoto M,Ishizawa A,Ohta Y,Shimada M,Omoto R

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a mass chest computed tomography (CT) screening using a mobile helical CT unit, we measured the aortic diameter at three segments to confirm standard values and also attempted to detect any asymptomatic aortic aneurysms. The population screened in the present study consisted of 6971 subjects (3847 men and 3124 wome...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Itani Y,Watanabe S,Masuda Y,Hanamura K,Asakura K,Sone S,Sunami Y,Miyamoto T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to plaque rupture (PR), calcified nodule (CN) may also have the potential to develop into arterial thrombus in the peripheral arteries. This study evaluated the distribution of plaque ruptures and calcified nodules in the peripheral arteries and their impact on the outcome of endovascular therapy (EVT). Co...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Horimatsu T,Fujii K,Fukunaga M,Miki K,Nishimura M,Naito Y,Shibuya M,Imanaka T,Kawai K,Tamaru H,Sumiyoshi A,Saita T,Masuyama T,Ishihara M

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to search genes altered in expression after long-term treatment with the angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1) antagonist, CV-11974, in volume-overloaded hearts. Arteriovenous shunt was made between the common carotid artery and jugular vein in Japanese White rabbits. Shunt-operated rabbits were random...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Itoh M,Takeishi Y,Nakada S,Miyamoto T,Tsunoda Y,Takahashi H,Kubota I,Tomoike H

更新日期：2002-11-01 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：:The resting full-cycle ratio (RFR), a novel resting index, is well correlated with and shows good diagnostic accuracy to the fractional flow reserve (FFR). However, discordance results between the RFR and FFR have been observed to occur in about 20% of cases. This study aimed to clarify the prevalence and factors of d...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Goto R,Takashima H,Ohashi H,Ando H,Suzuki A,Sakurai S,Nakano Y,Sawada H,Fujimoto M,Suzuki Y,Waseda K,Ohashi W,Amano T

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic dissection is a life-threatening cardiovascular disease with high in-hospital mortality. However, the risk factors of aortic dissection have not been fully elucidated. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been increasingly recognized as an independent cardiovascular risk factor. Among the underlying mechanisms to ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Naito R,Sakakura K,Kasai T,Dohi T,Wada H,Sugawara Y,Kubo N,Yamashita S,Narui K,Ishiwata S,Ohno M,Ako J,Momomura S

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few data regarding acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in young Japanese patients. We examined the risk factors for ACS in young Japanese patients, especially impaired glucose metabolism. From a database of 789 consecutive patients admitted to our hospital with ACS between 2000 and 2005, we compared risk factors o...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Ikeda N,Nakajima R,Tsunoda T,Nakamura M,Sugi K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery spasm is involved in the pathogenesis of various cardiac disorders. We investigated patients with a history of syncope who underwent elective coronary angiography. We retrospectively analyzed 5781 consecutive patients who had diagnostic or follow-up angiography during a 26-year period. During this peri...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sueda S,Kohno H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of circulating endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) is considered to be a surrogate marker for coronary artery disease (CAD). Recent studies have identified a novel T-cell subset labeled with CD3(+)/CD31(+), which is necessary for EPC colony formation and constitutes the central cluster. However, the clinica...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kakizaki M,Nobori K,Watanabe H,Iino K,Ishida M,Ito H

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In early systole, before the effects of reflected waves from the periphery become significant, the following equation applies: PA - PO = rho cu (1) where PA and PO are the instantaneous and end-diastolic pressures in the ascending aorta, rho the density of blood, c the velocity of the pulse wave in the aorta, and u th...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Harada Y,Sugawara M,Beppu T,Higashidate M,Nakata S,Imai Y

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of nifedipine on regional dysfunction during pacing-induced ischemia were studied in eight patients with coronary artery disease. Single-plane left ventriculograms were obtained using a high-fidelity micromanometer-tipped catheter in the control and post-pacing periods both before and after pretreatment wi...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Nonogi H,Sasayama S,Miyazaki S,Asanoi H,Yamanishi K,Kawai C,Eiho S,Kuwahara M

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitors may be useful in preventing the occurrence of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF). However, evaluation of such effect is difficult because many PAF episodes are asymptomatic and not all episodes are detected by intermittent electrocardiographic monitoring. A pacemaker has bee...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Takii E,Inage T,Yoshida T,Ohe M,Gondo T,Haraguchi G,Ito S,Kumanomido J,Imaizumi T,Fukuomoto Y

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) increases coronary artery disease (CAD) risk. In this study, we used T2DM clinical variables to predict abnormality in thallium-201 myocardial perfusion scans (Th-201 scans). These clinical variables were summed stress score (SSS), summed rest score, and summed difference score (SDS), w...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Lu CH,Pei D,Wu CZ,Kua HC,Liang YJ,Chen YL,Lin JD

更新日期：2020-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial ischemia leads to the activation of neutrophils as well as endothelial cells. The interaction between these cells is dependent on certain adhesion glycoproteins which are expressed on their surface. Adhesion of neutrophils to endothelium, mediated by adhesion molecules, has been shown to result in coronary ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Siminiak T,Smielecki J,Dye JF,Baliñski M,El-Gendi H,Wysocki H,Sheridan DJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the signaling mechanism of stretch-induced cell remodeling in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). Freshly dissociated HUVECs were cultured on an elastic silicon membrane and subjected to uniaxial cyclic stretch (20% in length, 1 Hz). The cells started to change their morphology as early as...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sokabe M,Naruse K,Sai S,Yamada T,Kawakami K,Inoue M,Murase K,Miyazu M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to assess the acute cardiopulmonary effects of a 100-mg oral single dose of sildenafil in patients with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension (IPAH) using a well-validated but less-used noninvasive echocardiographic method for the measurement of both systolic and diastolic pulmonary artery pressure (PAP), by tric...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Behzadnia N,Najafizadeh K,Sharif-Kashani B,Dameshghi DO,Shahabi P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wave intensity (WI) is a new hemodynamic index, which is defined as (dP/dt)(dU/dt) at any site of the circulation, where dP/dt and dU/dt are the time derivatives of blood pressure and velocity, respectively. Arterial WI in normal subjects has two positive sharp peaks. The first peak occurs during early systole when a ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Niki K,Sugawara M,Uchida K,Tanaka R,Tanimoto K,Imamura H,Sakomura Y,Ishizuka N,Koyanagi H,Kasanuki H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original publication of the article, the unit of hand in Fig. 2 was wrongly given as "N/kg" instead of "kg". ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Taya M,Amiya E,Hatano M,Maki H,Nitta D,Saito A,Tsuji M,Hosoya Y,Minatsuki S,Nakayama A,Fujiwara T,Konishi Y,Yokota K,Watanabe M,Morita H,Haga N,Komuro I

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intravenous enoximone on forearm venous circulation was studied in ten healthy volunteers (group A) and in ten patients with NYHA class III-IV congestive heart failure (group B). Distensibility of the forearm capacitance vessels was assessed from pressure-volume curves by venous occlusion plethysmography...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Branzi A,Berardi C,Ferretti RM,Beato E,Magnani G,Melandri G,Zannoli R,Magnani B

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleural effusions following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) have been reported in 65%-89% of the cases. The majority of pleural effusions are left-sided, of little significance, and resolve spontaneously. However, a few pleural effusions require specific therapeutics. We report clinical and pleural histologic f...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Charniot JC,Zerhouni K,Kambouchner M,Martinod E,Vignat N,Azorin J,Gandjbakhch I,Artigou JY

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular (LV) remodeling in systemic arterial hypertension causes electrical conduction delay and impairs synchronous contraction, which may contribute to the development of heart failure. This study aimed to assess the change of LV mechanics in hypertension by layer-specific dyssynchrony. One hundred and twen...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Kim SA,Kim MN,Shim WJ,Park SM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR), a measure of endothelial function in coronary circulation, can be measured semi-invasively in the left anterior descending coronary artery by using stress transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). During the same stress TEE, aortic distensibility indices (elastic modulus [E(p)]...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Nemes A,Forster T,Csanády M

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:Etiopathogenesis of coronary artery ectasia (CAE), which is defined as abnormal dilatation of a segment of the coronary artery to 1.5 times of an adjacent normal coronary artery segment, is unclear. However, it is speculated that CAE develops in the atherosclerosis process through degeneration of coronary artery media...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Dagli N,Ozturk U,Karaca I,Yavuzkir M,Koca S,Akbulut H,Balin M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitive cardiac troponin I (cTnI) predicts all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in various clinical settings. However, its clinical significance in hemodialysis (HD) patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) has not been fully elucidated. This study investigated the association of cTnI with...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Otsuka K,Nakanishi K,Shimada K,Nakamura H,Inanami H,Nishioka H,Fujimoto K,Kasayuki N,Yoshiyama M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac systolic (left ventricular ejection fraction) and diastolic (mitral inflow velocity pattern and/or mitral deceleration time) function were reported as predictors of clinical outcome or left ventricular remodeling in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Recently, a new index (Doppler-derived index c...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Sasao H,Noda R,Hasegawa T,Endo A,Oimatsu H,Takada T

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated that S1P receptors affect heart ischaemia-reperfusion (IR) induced injury. However, whether S1P receptors affect IR-induced cardiac death has not been investigated. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the role of S1P receptors in IR-induced cardiac death. Healthy adult male Sprague-Dawley ...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Zhang X,Chen D,Wang J,Liu J,Guo H,Zhang G

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) is caused by compression of peripheral nerves and vascular structures along their course through the upper thoracic aperture to the axilla. The aim of our study was to analyze long-term outcomes of different treatments stratified by symptom severity. We performed a retrospective analysis...

journal_title：Heart and vessels

authors： Skalicka L,Lubanda JC,Jirat S,Varejka P,Beran S,Dostal O,Prochazka P,Mrazek V,Linhart A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00