Importance Clopidogrel monotherapy after short dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has not yet been fully investigated in patients with …

Background Isolated spontaneous dissection of the superior mesenteric artery (SMA)
without aortic dissection is being increasingly recognized. This study aimed to evaluate the …

Background: Current guidelines generally recommend watchful waiting until symptoms
emerge for aortic valve replacement (AVR) in asymptomatic patients with severe aortic …

Studies on the effects of proinflammatory cytokines on the heart suggest that they play some
roles in the pathogenesis of congestive heart failure (CHF). To determine the involvement of …

To establish an experimental model for studying a specific transitional stage for
compensatory hypertrophy to heart failure, we studied the pathophysiology of the left …

Background: Despite recommendations in the guidelines and consensus documents, there
has been no randomized controlled trial evaluating oral anticoagulation (OAC) alone without …

This study investigated the relationship between atrial fibrillation (AF) and left ventricular
(LV) geometric patterns in a hospital-based population in Japan. We retrospectively …

Background—Late adverse events such as very late stent thrombosis (VLST) or late target-
lesion revascularization (TLR) after first-generation sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) …

The high controlling nutritional status (CONUT) score that represents poor nutritional status
has been acknowledged to have prognostic implications in chronic heart failure. We aimed …

Objectives We sought to evaluate the prognostic impact of the B-type natriuretic peptide
(BNP) levels in patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis (AS), who were not …