September 2010

Reviews

Current concepts in mitral valve prolapse—Diagnosis and management
• Pravin M. Shah
Published in issue: September 2010
p125-133

Patent foramen ovale and stroke
• Shunichi Homma,
• Marco R. Di Tullio
Published in issue: September 2010
p134-141

Short Communication

Exercise therapy correlates with improving renal function through modifying lipid metabolism in patients with cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease
• Kensuke Toyama,
• Seigo Sugiyama,
• Hideki Oka,
• Hitoshi Sumida,
• Hisao Ogawa
Published in issue: September 2010
p142-146

Original Articles

Electrocardiographic changes in patients with type A acute aortic dissection
Incidence, patterns and underlying mechanisms in 159 cases
• Kazuhito Hirata,
• Minoru Wake,
• Masahiro Kyushima,
• ...
• Eisei Henzan,
• Masao Maeshiro,
• Hiroaki Asato
Published in issue: September 2010
p147-153
Mean platelet volume is associated with insulin resistance in non-obese, non-diabetic patients with coronary artery disease
• Ercan Varol,
• Selahattin Akcay,
• Mehmet Ozaydin,
• Dogan Erdogan,
• Abdullah Dogan,
• Ahmet Altinbas
Published in issue: September 2010
p154-158

Soluble lectin-like oxidized LDL receptor-1 (sLOX-1) as a sensitive and specific biomarker for acute coronary syndrome—Comparison with other biomarkers
• Noriaki Kume,
• Hirokazu Mitsuoka,
• Kazutaka Hayashida,
• Masaru Tanaka,
• Goro Kominami,
• Toru Kita
Published in issue: September 2010
p159-165

Characteristics of the conduction of the left atrium in atrial fibrillation using non-contact mapping
• Hideo Takashima,
• Koichiro Kumagai,
• Naomichi Matsumoto,
• ...
• Chiharu Mitsutake,
• Shin-Ichiro Miura,
• Keijiro Saku
Published in issue: September 2010
p166-175
Long-term β-blocker therapy improves diastolic function even without the therapeutic effect on systolic function in patients with reduced ejection fraction
• Shunsuke Tamaki,
• Yasushi Sakata,
• Toshiaki Mano,
• ...
• Daisuke Kamimura,
• Yousuke Omori,
• Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Published in issue: September 2010
p176-182

Complications of pediatric cardiac catheterization and system of catheterization laboratories minimizing complications—A Japanese multicenter survey
• Yoshiki Mori,
• Makoto Nakazawa,
• Toshikatsu Yagihara
Published in issue: September 2010
p183-188

A frameshift deletion mutation in the cardiac myosin-binding protein C gene associated with dilated phase of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and dilated cardiomyopathy
• Nobuhiko Hitomi,
• Toru Kubo,
• Hiroaki Kitaoka,
• ...
• Makoto Okawa,
• Akinori Kimura,
• Yoshinori L. Doi
Published in issue: September 2010
p189-196
Heart rate on admission is an independent risk factor for poor cardiac function and in-hospital death after acute myocardial infarction
• Tsuyoshi Honda,
• Hisanori Kanazawa,
• Hidenobu Koga,
• Yuji Miyao,
• Kazuteru Fujimoto
Published in issue: September 2010
p197-203
Clinical manifestations and effects of primary percutaneous coronary intervention for patients with delayed pre-hospital time in acute myocardial infarction
• Tetsuya Nomura,
• Tetsuya Tatsumi,
• Takahisa Sawada,
• ...
• Keizo Furukawa,
• Hiroaki Matsubara
• on behalf of the AMI-Kyoto Multi-Center Risk Study Group
Published in issue: September 2010
p204-210

Gender differences in coronary plaque components in patients with acute coronary syndrome: Virtual histology-intravascular ultrasound analysis
• Young Joon Hong,
• Myung Ho Jeong,
• Yun Ha Choi,
• ...
• Jeong Gwan Cho,
• Jong Chun Park,
• Jung Chaee Kang
Published in issue: September 2010
p211-219

Improved long-term performance of pulsatile extracorporeal left ventricular assist device
• Taro Sasaoka,
• Tomoko S. Kato,
• Kazuo Komamura,
• ...
• Takeshi Nakatani,
• Mitsuaki Isobe,
• Masafumi Kitakaze
Published in issue: September 2010
p220-228

Coronary microvascular endothelial function deteriorates late (12 months) after sirolimus-eluting stent implantation
• Yoshinori Miyamoto,
• Hiroyuki Okura,
• Teruyoshi Kume,
• ...
• Koichiro Imai,
• Kikuko Obase,
• Kiyoshi Yoshida
Published in issue: September 2010
p229-235

Evaluation of effective regurgitant orifice area of mitral valvular regurgitation by multislice cardiac computed tomography
• Murat Vural,
• Ozgul Ucar,
• Ozlem Ozcan Celebi,
• ...
• N. Alper Selvi,
• Suha Koparal,
• Sinan Aydogdu
Published in issue: September 2010
p236-239

Association between coronary spastic angina pectoris and obstructive sleep apnea
• Akira Tamura,
• Yoshiyuki Kawano,
• Shinichi Ando,
• Toru Watanabe,
• Junichi Kadota
Published in issue: September 2010
p240-244

Effects of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors on continuous post-inflammatory vascular remodeling late after Kawasaki disease
• Akiko Hamaoka,
• Kenji Hamaoka,
• Tomoyo Yahata,
• ...
• Kentaro Toiyama,
• Masashi Nishida,
• Toshiyuki Itoi
Published in issue: September 2010
p245-253

Instructions to Authors
Published in issue: September 2010
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