Effects of aging on coronary flow reserve in patients with no evidence of myocardial perfusion abnormality

Erasta Ramandika, Satoshi Kurisu, Kazuhiro Nitta, Takayuki Hidaka, Hiroto Utsunomiya, Ken Ishibashi, Hiroki Ikenaga, Yukihiro Fukuda, Yasuki Kihara, Yukiko Nakano

Questionnaire in patients with aborted sudden cardiac death due to coronary spasm in Japan

Shozo Sueda, Tetsuji Shinohara, Naohiko Takahashi, Junya Shite, Toshihiro Shoji, Masaharu Akao, Yoshiyuki Kijima, Tohru Masuyama, Tsuyoshi Miyaji, Katsuhito Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Iwasaki, Ritsu Yoshida, Shigeru Nakamura, Yutaka Ogino, Kazuo Kimura, Masahiro Sasai, Hiroshi Suzuki, Tetsuzo Wakatsuki, Hiroshi Asajima, Hiroki Teragawa, Tetsunori Ishikawa, Kazuo Kitamura, Tsuyoshi Oda, Takashi Nakayama, Yoshio Kobayashi, Daisuke Sunada, Masaru Yamaki, Fumie Nishizaki, Yasushi Tomita, Kazuo Usuda, Hiroyuki Fujinaga, Shoichi Kuramitsu, Kenji Andou, Takahiko Kiyooka, Kazushige Kadota, Yoshinao Ishii, Hayato Ohtani, Yuichirou Maekawa, Eiji Taguchi, Kouichi Nakao, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Yoshihiko Seino, Hitoshi Nakagawa, Yoshihiko Saito, Issei Komuro, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Shuntarou Ikeda, Osamu Yamaguchi, Akiyoshi Kakutani, Takahiro Imanaka, Masaharu Ishihara, Masanobu Ishii, Koichi Kaikita, Kenichi Tsujita

Determinants of insufficient improvement in fractional flow reserve following percutaneous coronary intervention

Keisuke Hirai, Tomohiro Kawasaki, Kenichi Sakakura, Toshiya Soejima, Kimihiro Kajiyama, Yurie Fukami, Kazuki Haraguchi, Taichi Okonogi, Ryota Fukuoka, Yoshiya Orita, Kyoko Umeji, Hisashi Koga, Hiroshige Yamabe

Impact of changes in body mass index after percutaneous coronary intervention on long-term outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease

Hisanori Yui, Soichiro Ebisawa, Takashi Miura, Chie Nakamura, Shusaku Maruyama, Daisuke Kashiwagi, Ayumu Nagae, Takahiro Sakai, Tamon Kato, Tatsuya Saigusa, Ayako Okada, Hirohiko Motoki, Koichiro Kuwahara

Effect of nicorandil administration on cardiac burden and cardio-ankle vascular index after coronary intervention

Shuji Sato, Mao Takahashi, Hiroshi Mikamo, Masayo Kawazoe, Takuo Iizuka, Kazuhiro Shimizu, Mahito Noro, Kohji Shirai

Mortality and predictors of survival in patients with recent ventricular septal rupture

Shigetaka Kageyama, Yuki Nakanishi, Koichiro Murata, Ryuzo Nawada, Tomoya Onodera, Atsushi Sakamoto, Fumio Yamazaki, Yujiro Miura, Yuichiro Maekawa

Clinical profiles and outcomes in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction in Japan of aging society

Makoto Suzuki, Kensaku Nishihira, Misa Takegami, Satoshi Honda, Sunao Kojima, Morimasa Takayama, Tetsuya Sumiyoshi, Hisao Ogawa, Kazuo Kimura, Satoshi Yasuda, Takashi Takenaka, Daisuke Hotta, Tomonori Itoh, Tetsu Watanabe, Kiyotaka Hao, Kazuomi Kario, Takeshi Yamamoto, Naoki Sato, Atsuo Namiki, Hiroshi Suzuki, Masami Kosuge, Takashi Tanigawa, Yasuhide Asaumi, Kenichi Tsujita, Yoshihiro Miyamaoto

Left ventricular contractile performance and heart failure in patients with left ventricular ejection fraction more than 40%

Shuichi Kitada, Yu Kawada, Satoshi Osaga, Marina Kato, Shohei Kikuchi, Kazuaki Wakami, Yoshihiro Seo, Nobuyuki Ohte

Association of renal resistance index and arterial stiffness on clinical outcomes in patients with mild-to-moderate renal dysfunction and presence or absence of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Yoshihiro Aizawa, Yasuo Okumura, Yuki Saito, Yukitoshi Ikeya, Toshiko Nakai, Ken Arima

Cryoballoon versus radiofrequency ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in hemodialysis patients

Tomomasa Takamiya, Junichi Nitta, Osamu Inaba, Akira Sato, Yukihiro Inamura, Nobutaka Kato, Kazuya Murata, Takashi Ikenouchi, Toshikazu Kono, Giichi Nitta, Yutaka Matsumura, Yoshihide Takahashi, Masahiko Goya, Tetsuo Sasano

Circulating intermediate monocytes and toll-like receptor 4 correlate with low-voltage zones in atrial fibrillation

Hideya Suehiro, Koji Fukuzawa, Naofumi Yoshida, Kunihiko Kiuchi, Mitsuru Takami, Tomomi Akita, Tokiko Tabata, Makoto Takemoto, Jun Sakai, Toshihiro Nakamura, Atsusuke Yatomi, Hiroyuki Takahara, Yusuke Sonoda, Kazutake Nakasone, Kyoko Yamamoto, Atsushi Suzuki, Tomoya Yamashita, Ken-ichi Hirata

Switching from Warfarin to rivaroxaban induces sufficiency of vitamin K and reduction of arterial stiffness in patients with atrial fibrillation

Yuji Ikari, Fumie Saito, Takahiko Kiyooka, Masakazu Nagaoka, Manabu Kimura, Takayuki Furuki, Shigemitsu Tanaka

Correction to: Switching from Warfarin to rivaroxaban induces sufficiency of vitamin K and reduction of arterial stiffness in patients with atrial fibrillation

Yuji Ikari, Fumie Saito, Takahiko Kiyooka, Masakazu Nagaoka, Manabu Kimura, Takayuki Furuki, Shigemitsu Tanaka

Risk factors for permanent pacemaker implantation in patients receiving a balloon-expandable transcatheter aortic valve prosthesis

Michal Droppa, Tanja K. Rudolph, Jan Baan, Niels-Erik Nielsen, Helmut Baumgartner, Jeroen Vendrik, Maren Froehlich, Oliver Borst, Jochen Wöhrle, Meinrad Gawaz, Paul Potratz, Luis P. Hack, Victor Mauri, Jacek Baranowski, Peter Bramlage, Jana Kurucova, Martin Thoenes, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Tobias Geisler

Histone methylation and demethylation are implicated in the transient and sustained activation of the interleukin-1β gene in murine macrophages

Hiroyuki Imuta, Daishi Fujita, Shigeyoshi Oba, Arihiro Kiyosue, Hiroaki Nishimatsu, Kazuo Yudo, Etsu Suzuki

TRPC6 participates in the development of blood pressure variability increase in sino-aortic denervated rats

Yu Wang, Ling Liu, Hongmei Tao, Li Wen, Shu Qin

Therapeutic strategy using low-dose carperitide monotherapy in patients with acute heart failure

Teruhiko Imamura

Therapeutic strategy using low-dose carperitide in patients with acute heart failure

Masataka Kamiya, Naoki Sato, Wataru Shimizu

Acknowledgement to reviewers