Treatment effects of renin-angiotensin system inhibitor and calcium channel blocker in patients with coronary artery narrowing (from the Japanese Coronary Artery Disease Study)

Masatoshi Fujita, Shigetake Sasayama, Fumio Terasaki, Satoko Mitani, Tatsuya Morimoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Doubun Hayashi, Takahide Kohro, Yoshihiro Okada, Ryozo Nagai

Effects of telmisartan on markers of ventricular remodeling in patients with acute myocardial infarction: comparison with enalapril

Takashi Yokota, Tomohiro Osanai, Kenji Hanada, Motoi Kushibiki, Naoki Abe, Koichi Oikawa, Hirofumi Tomita, Takumi Higuma, Jin Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Hanada, Ken Okumura

Predictive value of the relative lymphocyte count in coronary heart disease

Chang Bian, Yihua Wu, Yu Shi, Geng Xu, Jianan Wang, Meixiang Xiang, Shaoxiang Weng, Jun Jiang, Ji Ma

Enhanced expression of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in the myocardium from patients with dilated cardiomyopathy referred for left ventriculoplasty: an immunohistochemical study with special reference to oxidative stress

Koji Otsuka, Fumio Terasaki, Hiroaki Shimomura, Bin Tsukada, Taiko Horii, Tadashi Isomura, Hisayoshi Suma, Yuro Shibayama, Yasushi Kitaura

Mismatch between arterial stiffness increase and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction

Po-Chao Hsu, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Chee-Siong Lee, Hsiang-Chun Lee, Chun-Yuan Chu, Ho-Ming Su, Wen-Chol Voon, Wen-Ter Lai, Sheng-Hsiung Sheu

Systolic-diastolic coupling of myocardial deformation of the left ventricle in children with left ventricular noncompaction

C. Koh, W. J. Hong, S. J. Wong, Y. F. Cheung

Aging modulates dispersion of ventricular repolarization in the very old of the geriatric population

Jen-Hung Huang, Ying-Qin Lin, Nan-Hung Pan, Yi-Jen Chen

Re-elevation of d-dimer as a predictor of re-dissection and venous thromboembolism after Stanford type B acute aortic dissection

Yusuke Jo, Toshihisa Anzai, Koji Ueno, Hidehiro Kaneko, Takashi Kohno, Yasuo Sugano, Yuichiro Maekawa, Tsutomu Yoshikawa, Hideyuki Shimizu, Ryohei Yozu, Satoshi Ogawa

Effect of graft adaptation of the internal mammary artery on longitudinal phasic blood flow velocity characteristics after surgery

Setsuo Kumazaki, Jun Koyama, Kazunori Aizawa, Hiroki Kasai, Megumi Koshikawa, Atsushi Izawa, Takeshi Tomita, Masafumi Takahashi, Uichi Ikeda

Heart valve surgery in octogenarians: operative and long-term results

Shigeaki Aoyagi, Shuji Fukunaga, Koichi Arinaga, Hiroshi Tomoeda, Koji Akasu, Tomohiro Ueda

Assessment of modified Blalock–Taussig shunt in children with congenital heart disease using multidetector-row computed tomography

Manal Mohamed Helmy Nabo, Yasunobu Hayabuchi, Miki Inoue, Noriko Watanabe, Miho Sakata, Shoji Kagami

Prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury by theophylline in elderly patients with chronic kidney disease

Jan Matejka, Ivo Varvarovsky, Petr Vojtisek, Ales Herman, Vladimir Rozsival, Veronika Borkova, Jiri Kvasnicka

Association between clinical characteristics and AL amyloid deposition in the kidney

Mitsuyo Itabashi, Takashi Takei, Misao Tsukada, Hidekazu Sugiura, Keiko Uchida, Ken Tsuchiya, Kazuho Honda, Kosaku Nitta

The N-type and L-type calcium channel blocker cilnidipine suppresses renal injury in Dahl rats fed a high-salt diet

Shizuka Aritomi, Hajime Koganei, Hirotaka Wagatsuma, Akira Mitsui, Tetsuya Ogawa, Kosaku Nitta, Tomoyuki Konda

The role of the large-conductance voltage-dependent and calcium-activated potassium (BKCa) channels in the regulation of rat ductus arteriosus tone

Fang Sun, Emiko Hayama, Yasuhiro Katsube, Rumiko Matsuoka, Toshio Nakanishi

Successful use of the Cardiva Boomerang™ vascular closure device to close a brachial artery puncture site after emergency PTCA

Plinio Cirillo, Gianluca Petrillo, Greta Luana D’Ascoli, Federico Piscione, Massimo Chiariello

Absent pulmonary valve syndrome with ascending aortic aneurysm

Chi-Di Liang, Sheung-Fat Ko, Jen-Ping Chang, Shun-Chen Huang

Erratum to: Surgical correction of isolated unilateral absence of right pulmonary artery

Takeshi Hiramatsu, Shigeru Komori, Yoshitaka Okamura, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Takashi Takeuchi, Syoichi Shibuta

Online First publication of Heart and Vessels now available

Acknowledgment to reviewers