Increased soluble vascular adhesion molecule-1 concentration is associated with impaired coronary flow reserve in cardiac syndrome X

Byung Ju Shim, Dong Hyeon Lee, Ho Joong Youn

To kiss or not to kiss? Impact of final kissing-balloon inflation on early and long-term results of percutaneous coronary intervention for bifurcation lesions

Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Imad Sheiban, Stefano De Servi, Corrado Tamburino, Giuseppe Sangiorgi, Enrico Romagnoli

Characteristics of plaque progression detected by serial coronary computed tomography angiography

Hajime Ito, Sadako Motoyama, Masayoshi Sarai, Hideki Kawai, Hiroto Harigaya, Shino Kan, Shigeru Kato, Hirofumi Anno, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hiroyuki Naruse, Junichi Ishii, Jagat Narula, Yukio Ozaki

Impact of tissue characteristics on luminal narrowing of mild angiographic coronary stenosis: assessment of integrated backscatter intravascular ultrasound

Makoto Iwama, Shinichiro Tanaka, Toshiyuki Noda, Tomonori Segawa, Masanori Kawasaki, Kazuhiko Nishigaki, Taro Minagawa, Sachiro Watanabe, Shinya Minatoguchi

Prognostic impact of lipid contents on the target lesion in patients with drug eluting stent implantation

Soichiro Kumagai, Hiroaki Takashima, Katsuhisa Waseda, Hirohiko Ando, Akihiro Suzuki, Tadayuki Uetani, Ken Harada, Tomohiro Yoshida, Ayako Kunimura, Yusaku Shimbo, Katsuhide Kitagawa, Kazuhiro Harada, Hideki Ishii, Daiji Yoshikawa, Tatsuaki Matsubara, Toyoaki Murohara, Tetsuya Amano

Hyperglycemia, acute insulin resistance, and renal dysfunction in the early phase of ST-elevation myocardial infarction without previously known diabetes: impact on long-term prognosis

Chiara Lazzeri, Serafina Valente, Marco Chiostri, Paola Attanà, Alessio Mattesini, Martina Nesti, Gian Franco Gensini

Mitral and aortic valve sclerosis/calcification and carotid atherosclerosis: results from 1065 patients

Andrea Rossi, Pompilio Faggiano, Alexandra E. Amado, Mariantonietta Cicoira, Stefano Bonapace, Lorenzo Franceschini, Frank L. Dini, Stefano Ghio, Eustachio Agricola, Pier Luigi Temporelli, Corrado Vassanelli

Baseline cardiac magnetic resonance imaging versus baseline endomyocardial biopsy for the prediction of left ventricular reverse remodeling and prognosis in response to therapy in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Takeru Nabeta, Takayuki Inomata, Yuichiro Iida, Yuki Ikeda, Miwa Iwamoto, Shunsuke Ishii, Takanori Sato, Ichiro Watanabe, Takashi Naruke, Hisahito Shinagawa, Toshimi Koitabashi, Ichiro Takeuchi, Mototsugu Nishii, Yusuke Inoue, Tohru Izumi

Clinical and imaging predictors of 1-year and long-term mortality in light chain (AL) amyloidosis: a 5-year follow-up study

Raymond Q. Migrino, Leanne Harmann, Richard Christenson, Parameswaran Hari

Prevalence and the long-term prognosis of functional mitral regurgitation in Japanese patients with symptomatic heart failure

Hidehiro Kaneko, Shinya Suzuki, Tokuhisa Uejima, Hiroto Kano, Shunsuke Matsuno, Takayuki Otsuka, Hideaki Takai, Yuji Oikawa, Junji Yajima, Akira Koike, Kazuyuki Nagashima, Hajime Kirigaya, Koichi Sagara, Hiroaki Tanabe, Hitoshi Sawada, Tadanori Aizawa, Takeshi Yamashita

Impact of radiofrequency catheter ablation on echocardiographic and cardiopulmonary performance in patients with ventricular extrasystolic beats and suspected arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy

Tomasz Krynski, Sebastian Stec, Sebastian Szmit, Beata Zaborska, Paweł Balsam, Piotr Kulakowski, Grzegorz Opolski

Electroanatomically estimated length of slow pathway in atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia

Tadanobu Irie, Yoshiaki Kaneko, Tadashi Nakajima, Masaki Ota, Takafumi Iijima, Mio Tamura, Takashi Iizuka, Shuntaro Tamura, Akihiro Saito, Masahiko Kurabayashi

Assessment of ventricular relaxation and stiffness using early diastolic mitral annular and inflow velocities in pediatric patients with heart disease

Satoshi Masutani, Hirofumi Saiki, Clara Kurishima, Seiko Kuwata, Masanori Tamura, Hideaki Senzaki

Forced aggregation and defined factors allow highly uniform-sized embryoid bodies and functional cardiomyocytes from human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells

Martin Pesl, Ivana Acimovic, Jan Pribyl, Renata Hezova, Aleksandra Vilotic, Jeremy Fauconnier, Jan Vrbsky, Peter Kruzliak, Petr Skladal, Tomas Kara, Vladimir Rotrekl, Alain Lacampagne, Petr Dvorak, Albano C. Meli

Low serum eicosapentaenoic acid level is a risk for ventricular arrhythmia in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a possible link to J-waves

Tomohide Endo, Hirofumi Tomita, Takumi Higuma, Naoki Abe, Motoi Kushibiki, Shin Saitoh, Masahiro Yamada, Takashi Yokota, Takashi Echizen, Hiroaki Yokoyama, Shunta Tateyama, Akiko Suzuki, Yuji Ishida, Kazuo Murakami, Tomohiro Osanai, Ken Okumura

The presence of mu-, delta-, and kappa-opioid receptors in human heart tissue

Piotr Sobanski, Malgorzata Krajnik, Mohammed Shaqura, Elzbieta Bloch-Boguslawska, Michael Schäfer, Shaaban A. Mousa

Descending aorta–external iliac artery bypass for middle aortic syndrome

Yuki Okamoto, Kazuo Yamamoto, Tsutomu Sugimoto, Fuyuki Asami, Ayako Nagasawa, Satoru Shiraiwa, Norihito Nakamura, Shinpei Yoshii

Three cases of corticosteroid therapy triggering ventricular fibrillation in J-wave syndromes

Naka Sakamoto, Nobuyuki Sato, Masahide Goto, Motoi Kobayashi, Naofumi Takehara, Toshiharu Takeuchi, Ahmed Karim Talib, Eitaro Sugiyama, Akiho Minoshima, Yasuko Tanabe, Kazumi Akasaka, Junichi Kawabe, Yuichiro Kawamura, Atsushi Doi, Naoyuki Hasebe

Rapidly progressive symptom development of pulmonary arterial hypertension: a case report of Trousseau syndrome

Hiroo Kato, Takanori Shumiya, Masaki Yamauchi, Junko Miyamoto, Akinobu Nakano, Hideto Tsukamoto, Kenji Okumura

Acknowledgment to reviewers