Intravascular ultrasound assessment of the association between spatial orientation of ruptured coronary plaques and remodeling morphology of culprit plaques in ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction

Ikuyoshi Kusama, Kiyoshi Hibi, Masami Kosuge, Shinnichi Sumita, Kengo Tsukahara, Jun Okuda, Toshiaki Ebina, Satoshi Umemura, Kazuo Kimura

Upright T waves in lead aVR are associated with cardiac death or hospitalization for heart failure in patients with a prior myocardial infarction

Kumie Torigoe, Akira Tamura, Yoshiyuki Kawano, Kazuhiro Shinozaki, Munenori Kotoku, Junichi Kadota

Comparison between sirolimus- and paclitaxel-eluting stents for the treatment of older patients affected by coronary artery disease: results from a single-center allcomers registry

Paolo Buja, Davide Lanzellotti, Giambattista Isabella, Massimo Napodano, Marco Panfili, Enrico Favaretto, Sabino Iliceto, Giuseppe Tarantini

Coronary artery surgery in octogenarians: evolving strategies for the improvement in early and late results

Francesco Nicolini, Alberto Molardi, Danilo Verdichizzo, Maria Cristina Gallazzi, Igino Spaggiari, Flavio Cocconcelli, Alessandro Maria Budillon, Bruno Borrello, Davide Rivara, Cesare Beghi, Tiziano Gherli

Aspirin, clopidogrel, and warfarin use and outcomes in a cohort of 580 patients discharged after hospitalization for decompensated heart failure

Güliz Kozdağ, Mehmet Yaymacı, Gökhan Ertaş, Umut Çelikyurt, Tayfun Şahin, Teoman Kılıç, Dilek Ural

Cross-sectional relationship of a Mediterranean type diet to diastolic heart function in chronic heart failure patients

Christina Chrysohoou, Christos Pitsavos, George Metallinos, Christos Antoniou, Evaggelos Oikonomou, Iason Kotroyiannis, Apostolis Tsantilas, George Tsitsinakis, Dimitris Tousoulis, Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Christodoulos Stefanadis

Simple and new technique to assess left internal mammary artery function by left ventriculography

Ahmet Karabulut, Mahmut Çakmak, Bulent Uzunlar, Onder Teskin, Ahmet Bilici

Usefulness of tissue Doppler echocardiography to predict perioperative cardiac events in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery

Sonoko Saito, Atsushi Takagi, Fumio Kurokawa, Kyomi Ashihara, Nobuhisa Hagiwara

The short- and medium-term results of transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension

Zhi-wei Huang, Zhi-xin Fan, Jian-tao Sun, Wei-min Li, Yan-qing Gao, Yi-hua Quan, Ya-ming Geng, Yan-yan Niu, Bing-xiang Wu

Left atrial dilatation and ST-T changes predict cardiovascular outcome in chronic hemodialysis patients

Kiyotsugu Omae, Tetsuya Ogawa, Masao Yoshikawa, Kosaku Nitta

Spontaneous retinal venous pulsatility in patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease

S. Mojtaba Golzan, John Leaney, Rachael Cordina, Alberto Avolio, David S. Celermajer, Stuart L. Graham

Matrix metalloprotein-9 activation under cell-to-cell interaction between endothelial cells and monocytes: possible role of hypoxia and tumor necrosis factor-α

Yuko Yamamoto, Tomohiro Osanai, Fumie Nishizaki, Takanori Sukekawa, Kei Izumiyama, Shigeki Sagara, Ken Okumura

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention and intravascular ultrasound imaging for coronary thrombosis after cisplatin-based chemotherapy

Daisuke Ito, Jun Shiraishi, Takeshi Nakamura, Naoki Maruyama, Yumi Iwamura, Sho Hashimoto, Masayoshi Kimura, Akihiro Matsui, Hirokazu Yokoi, Masayasu Arihara, Hidekazu Irie, Masayuki Hyogo, Takatomo Shima, Yoshio Kohno, Akiyoshi Matsumuro, Takahisa Sawada, Hiroaki Matsubara

Transbrachial intra-aortic balloon pumping for a patient with fulminant myocarditis

Iwao Okai, Kenji Inoue, Masaki Maruyama, Sonomi Maruyama, Kaoru Komatsu, Hirohito Nishizawa, Shinya Okazaki, Yasumasa Fujiwara, Masataka Sumiyoshi, Hiroyuki Daida

Successful radiofrequency catheter ablation of common atrial flutter at the bottom of a coronary sinus diverticulum

Miyako Igarashi, Hiroshi Tada, Yukio Sekiguchi, Kazutaka Aonuma

Acknowledgment to reviewers