Journal of Artificial Organs

The angle of the outflow graft to the aorta can affect recirculation due to aortic insufficiency under left ventricular assist device support

Kei Iizuka, Tomohiro Nishinaka, Daichi Akiyama, Hirohito Sumikura, Toshihide Mizuno, Tomonori Tsukiya, Yoshiaki Takewa, Kenji Yamazaki, Eisuke Tatsumi

Single-center experience of the bridge-to-bridge strategy using the Nipro paracorporeal ventricular assist device

Shuichi Yoshitake, Osamu Kinoshita, Kan Nawata, Yasuhiro Hoshino, Yoshifumi Itoda, Mitsutoshi Kimura, Haruo Yamauchi, Minoru Ono

Cerebral oximetry for cardiac surgery: a preoperative comparison of device characteristics and pitfalls in interpretation

Kensuke Kobayashi, Tadashi Kitamura, Satoshi Kohira, Shinzo Torii, Toshiaki Mishima, Hirotoki Ohkubo, Yuki Tanaka, Akihiro Sasahara, Takuma Fukunishi, Yuki Ohtomo, Rihito Horikoshi, Yuta Murai, Kagami Miyaji

Correction to: Cerebral oximetry for cardiac surgery: a preoperative comparison of device characteristics and pitfalls in interpretation

Kensuke Kobayashi, Tadashi Kitamura, Satoshi Kohira, Shinzo Torii, Toshiaki Mishima, Hirotoki Ohkubo, Yuki Tanaka, Akihiro Sasahara, Takuma Fukunishi, Yuki Ohtomo, Rihito Horikoshi, Yuta Murai, Kagami Miyaji

Efficacy of regional saturation of oxygen monitor using near-infrared spectroscopy for lower limb ischemia during minimally invasive cardiac surgery

Teppei Toya, Tomoyuki Fujita, Satuki Fukushima, Yusuke Shimahara, Yuta Kume, Kizuku Yamashita, Yorihiko Matsumoto, Naonori Kawamoto, Junjiro Kobayashi

Efficient CO2 removal using extracorporeal lung and renal assist device

Nozomi Takahashi, Taka-aki Nakada, Shigeto Oda

Thrombogenicity and long-term cytokine removal capability of a novel asymmetric triacetate membrane hemofilter

Andreas Körtge, Thomas Wild, Benjamin Heskamp, Manuel Folk, Steffen Mitzner, Reinhold Wasserkort

Risk analysis using the prognostic nutritional index in hemodialysis-dependent patients undergoing cardiac surgery

Soki Kurumisawa, Koji Kawahito

Oxygen consumption during hypothermic and subnormothermic machine perfusions of porcine liver grafts after cardiac death

Noriyuki Morito, Hiromichi Obara, Naoto Matsuno, Shin Enosawa, Hiroyuki Furukawa

HeartMate II implantation technique that spares the sternum and ascending aorta

Masashi Kawabori, Chitaru Kurihara, Tadahisa Sugiura, Andrew B. Civitello, Jeffrey A. Morgan

Left ventricular assist device implantation after plasma exchange for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Shintaroh Koizumi, Hiroki Kohno, Michiko Watanabe, Togo Iwahana, Takuma Maeda, Shigeki Miyata, Yoshio Kobayashi, Goro Matsumiya

Omental and deep inferior epigastric artery perforator flap coverage after heart transplantation to manage wide left ventricular assist device exposure with pocket infection

Yusuke Inatomi, Hideki Kadota, Keizo Kaku, Hiromichi Sonoda, Yoshihisa Tanoue, Akira Shiose

Pregnancy complicated by influenza A ARDS requiring consecutive VV-ECMO treatment with successful vaginal delivery

Peter Radsel, Vojka Gorjup, Anja Jazbec, Rihard Knafelj, Miha Lucovnik, Gorazd Kavsek, Lilijana Kornhauser Cerar, Marko Noc

Rapid-onset plasma leakage of extracorporeal oxygenation membranes possibly due to hyperbilirubinemia

Yoshiko Kida, Shinichiro Ohshimo, Michihito Kyo, Yuko Tanabe, Kei Suzuki, Koji Hosokawa, Nobuaki Shime

Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for the management of critical airway stenosis

Yu Yamada, Toshihiro Ohata, Mutsunori Kitahara, Hisakazu Kohata, Junji Kumasawa, Michihiko Kohno

Lumbar muscle atrophy caused by harness replacement in a chronic calf model of total artificial heart implantation

Jamshid H. Karimov, Kimberly A. Such, Raymond Dessoffy, Kiyotaka Fukamachi

Histological investigation of the titanium fiber mesh with one side sealed with non-porous material for its application to the artificial heart system

Eiji Okamoto, Kyoko Arimura, Yoshinori Mitamura

Acknowledgements to reviewers