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Message From the Editor-in-Chief

Message From the Editor-in-Chief
Toyoaki Murohara

Reviews

Cutting Edge of Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) Research — The Diversity of BNP Immunoreactivity and Its Clinical Relevance —
Koichiro Kuwahara, Yasuaki Nakagawa, Toshio Nishikimi

Research Toolbox for Peripheral Arterial Disease — Minimally Invasive Assessment of the Vasculature and Skeletal Muscle —
Lee Stoner, Erik D. Hanson, Martin Gram, Jason D. Allen, Steven K. Malin

Editorials

Bicuspid Aortic Valve-Associated Aortic Dilatation — What Is the Mechanism of Bicuspid Aortopathy? —
Tomoya Yamashita, Tomohiro Hayashi, Tokiko Tabata, Ken-ichi Hirata

Fixation or Disinfection?
Takashi Kunihara

Epicardial Fat and Pericardial Fat Surrounding the Heart Have Different Characteristics
Yukina Hirata, Hirotsugu Yamada, Masataka Sata

Early Prediction of Cardiotoxicity From Cancer Chemotherapy — Can Baseline Strain Identify High- Risk Patients? —
Koki Nakanishi, Masao Daimon

PARALLEL-HF — A Paradigm Shift for Heart Failure Treatment in Japan? —
Kyung-Duk Min, Masafumi Kitakaze

Trade-Off Between Lipid-Lowering Therapy and Costs in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease
Hideki Ishii, Toyoaki Murohara

More Benefits From Endovascular Thrombectomy in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation?
Masatoshi Koga

Original Articles

Aortic Disease

Activation of the AKT Pathway in the Ascending Aorta With Bicuspid Aortic Valve
Yuichiro Hirata, Hiroki Aoki, Takahiro Shojima, Kazuyoshi Takagi, Tohru Takaseya, Kohji Akasu, Satoru Tobinaga, Yoshihiro Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Tanaka

Arrhythmia/Electrophysiology

Impact of Pre-Existing Bradycardia on Subsequent Need for Pacemaker Implantation After Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation
Tetsuma Kawaji, Satoshi Shizuta, Shintaro Yamagami, Takanori Aizawa, Takashi Yoshizawa, Masashi Kato, Takafumi Yokomatsu, Shinji Miki, Koh Ono, Takeshi Kimura

Three-Year Clinical Outcomes Associated With Warfarin vs. Direct Oral Anticoagulant Use Among Japanese Patients With Atrial Fibrillation — Findings From the SAKURA AF Registry —
Yasuo Okumura, Katsuaki Yokoyama, Naoya Matsumoto, Eizo Tachibana, Keiichiro Kuronuma, Koji Oiwa, Michiaki Matsumoto, Toshiaki Kojima, Shoji Hanada, Kazumiki Nomoto, Ken Arima, Fumiyuki Takahashi, Tomobumi Kotani, Yukitoshi Ikeya, Seiji Fukushima, Satoru Itou, Kunio Kondo, Masaaki Chiku, Yasumi Ohno, Motoyuki Onikura, Atsushi Hirayama for the SAKURA AF Registry Investigators

Time in Therapeutic Range and Disease Outcomes in Elderly Japanese Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
Hiroshi Inoue, Eitaro Kodani, Hirotsugu Atarashi, Ken Okumura, Takeshi Yamashita, Yuji Okuyama, Hideki Origasa for the J-RHYTHM Registry Investigators

Cardiovascular Intervention

Comparison of Transcarotid vs. Transfemoral Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Masazumi Watanabe, Shinya Takahashi, Hironori Yamaoka, Taijiro Sueda, Antonio Piperata, Xavier Zirphile, Lionel Leroux, Julien Peltan, Louis Labrousse

Cardiac Rehabilitation

Need for Systematic Efforts to Modify Health-Related Behaviors After Acute Myocardial Infarction in Korea
Seungwoo Cha, Jin Joo Park, Sunyoung Kim, Hong-Yup Ahn, Kyungdo Han, Yookyung Lee, Won-Seok Kim, Nam-Jong Paik

Cardiovascular Surgery

Safe Use of Glutaraldehyde to Repair the Destroyed Valve in Active Infective Mitral Valve Endocarditis
Ken Nakamura, Kazuhiro Hashimoto, Yoshimasa Sakamoto, Ko Bando, Michio Yoshitake, Yoko Matsumura, Katsushi Kinouchi, Takayuki Abe

Clinical Outcomes of Repeat Aortic Valve Replacement for Subaortic Pannus in Mechanical Aortic Valve
Pyo Won Park, Byungjoon Park, Dong Seop Jeong, Kiick Sung, Wook Sung Kim, Young Tak Lee, Seung Woo Park

Epidemiology

Change in Pericardial Fat Volume and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a General Population of Japanese Men
Itsuko Miyazawa, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Sayaka Kadowaki, Akira Fujiyoshi, Takashi Hisamatsu, Aya Kadota, Hisatomi Arima, Matthew Budoff, Kiyoshi Murata, Katsuyuki Miura, Hiroshi Maegawa, Hirotsugu Ueshima for the SESSA Research Group

Two-Year Survival After First-Ever Stroke in a General Population of 1.4 Million Japanese — Shiga Stroke Registry —
Naoyuki Takashima, Hisatomi Arima, Yoshikuni Kita, Takako Fujii, Naomi Miyamatsu, Masaru Komori, Yoshihisa Sugimoto, Satoru Nagata, Katsuyuki Miura, Kazuhiko Nozaki

Associations of High-Density Lipoprotein Particle and High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol With Alcohol Intake, Smoking, and Body Mass Index — The INTERLIPID Study —
Maryam Zaid, Katsuyuki Miura, Akira Okayama, Hideaki Nakagawa, Kiyomi Sakata, Shigeyuki Saitoh, Nagako Okuda, Katsushi Yoshita, Sohel R. Choudhury, Beatriz Rodriguez, Kamal Masaki, Bradley Willcox, Naoko Miyagawa, Tomonori Okamura, Queenie Chan, Paul Elliott, Jeremiah Stamler, Hirotsugu Ueshima for the INTERLIPID and INTERMAP Research Groups

Heart Failure

Baseline Global Longitudinal Strain as a Predictor of Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Hospitalization for Heart Failure of Patients With Malignant Lymphoma After Anthracycline Therapy
Keiko Hatazawa, Hidekazu Tanaka, Akiko Nonaka, Hiroki Takada, Fumitaka Soga, Yutaka Hatani, Hiroki Matsuzoe, Hiroyuki Shimoura, Junichi Ooka, Hiroyuki Sano, Yasuhide Mochizuki, Kensuke Matsumoto, Ken-ichi Hirata

Angiotensin Receptor Neprilysin Inhibitor in Japanese Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction — Baseline Characteristics and Treatment of PARALLEL-HF Trial —
Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Shin-ichi Momomura, Yoshihiko Saito, Hiroshi Ito, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Tomomi Ohishi, Naoko Okino, Toshihito Kitamura, Weinong Guo

Ischemic Heart Disease

Alamandine Protects the Heart Against Reperfusion Injury via the MrgD Receptor
Byung Mun Park, Hoang Thi Ai Phuong, Lamei Yu, Suhn Hee Kim

Early-Phase Vascular Healing of Bioabsorbable vs. Durable Polymer-Coated Everolimus-Eluting Stents in Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction — 2-Week and 4-Month Analyses With Optical Coherence Tomography —
Masahiro Shimoda, Hirohiko Ando, Kazuhiro Naito, Akihiro Suzuki, Shinichiro Sakurai, Yusuke Nakano, Akiyoshi Kurita, Katsuhisa Waseda, Hiroaki Takashima, Kenta Murotani, Tadayuki Uetani, Tetsuya Amano

Cost-Effectiveness of PCSK9 Inhibitor Plus Statin in Patients With Triple-Vessel Coronary Artery Disease in Japan
Satoshi Kodera, Hiroyuki Morita, Arihiro Kiyosue, Jiro Ando, Tomoyuki Takura, Issei Komuro

Myocardial Disease

Clinical and Echocardiographic Impact of Tafazzin Variants on Dilated Cardiomyopathy Phenotype in Left Ventricular Non-Compaction Patients in Early Infancy
Keiichi Hirono, Yukiko Hata, Makoto Nakazawa, Nobuo Momoi, Tohru Tsuji, Taro Matsuoka, Mamoru Ayusawa, Yuriko Abe, Tamaki Hayashi, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Tadaaki Abe, Heima Sakaguchi, Ce Wang, Asami Takasaki, Shinya Takarada, Mako Okabe, Nariaki Miyao, Hideyuki Nakaoka, Keijiro Ibuki, Kazuyoshi Saito, Sayaka Ozawa, Naoki Nishida, Neil E. Bowles, Fukiko Ichida

Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Amniotic Fluid Natriuretic Peptide Levels in Fetuses With Congenital Heart Defects or Arrhythmias
Takekazu Miyoshi, Hiroshi Hosoda, Takashi Umekawa, Takashi Asada, Akihiro Fujiwara, Ken-ichi Kurosaki, Isao Shiraishi, Michikazu Nakai, Kunihiro Nishimura, Mikiya Miyazato, Kenji Kangawa, Tomoaki Ikeda, Jun Yoshimatsu, Naoto Minamino

Tentative Screening Criteria for Short QT Interval in Children and Adolescents
Daisuke Hazeki, Yumiko Ninomiya, Kentaro Ueno, Masao Yoshinaga

Peripheral Vascular Disease

Length and Cost of Hospital Stay in Poor-Risk Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia Undergoing Revascularization
Mitsuyoshi Takahara, Osamu Iida, Yoshimitsu Soga, Nobuyoshi Azuma, Shinsuke Nanto on behalf of the PRIORITY Investigators

Beneficial Effect of Endovascular Treatment on Villalta Score in Japanese Patients With Chronic Iliofemoral Venous Thrombosis and Post-Thrombotic Syndrome
Jin Ueda, Akihiro Tsuji, Takeshi Ogo, Ryotaro Asano, Nao Konagai, Shigefumi Fukui, Yoshiaki Morita, Tetsuya Fukuda, Satoshi Yasuda

Stroke

Anticoagulants, Reperfusion Therapy, and Outcomes in Ischemic Stroke Patients With Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation — A Single-Center, 6-Year Experience of 546 Consecutive Patients —
Satoshi Suda, Yuki Sakamoto, Seiji Okubo, Junya Aoki, Takashi Shimoyama, Takuya Kanamaru, Kentaro Suzuki, Akihito Kutsuna, Noriko Matsumoto, Chikako Nito, Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Masahiro Mishina, Kazumi Kimura

Valvular Heart Disease

Outcomes of Self-Expanding vs. Balloon-Expandable Transcatheter Heart Valves for the Treatment of Degenerated Aortic Surgical Bioprostheses — A Propensity Score-Matched Comparison —
Tomoki Ochiai, Sung-Han Yoon, Rahul Sharma, Masaki Miyasaka, Takahiro Nomura, Tanya Rami, Yoshio Maeno, Tarun Chakravarty, Mamoo Nakamura, Wen Cheng, Raj Makkar

Early Surgery vs. Surgery After Watchful Waiting for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis
Makoto Miyake, Chisato Izumi, Tomohiko Taniguchi, Takeshi Morimoto, Masashi Amano, Shunsuke Nishimura, Takeshi Kitai, Takao Kato, Kazushige Kadota, Kenji Ando, Yutaka Furukawa, Tsukasa Inada, Moriaki Inoko, Katsuhisa Ishii, Genichi Sakaguchi, Fumio Yamazaki, Tadaaki Koyama, Tatsuhiko Komiya, Kazuo Yamanaka, Noboru Nishiwaki, Naoki Kanemitsu, Toshihiko Saga, Tatsuya Ogawa, Shogo Nakayama, Hiroshi Tsuneyoshi, Atsushi Iwakura, Kotaro Shiraga, Michiya Hanyu, Nobuhisa Ohno, Atsushi Fukumoto, Tomoyuki Yamada, Junichiro Nishizawa, Jiro Esaki, Kenji Minatoya, Yoshihisa Nakagawa, Takeshi Kimura on behalf of the CURRENT AS Registry Investigators

Rapid Communications

MitraClip in Patients With Mitral Regurgitation and Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction <30% — Potential Implications for the Treatment of Patients in Japan —
Hidehiro Kaneko, Mitsunobu Kitamura, Michael Neuss, Maki Okamoto, Tobias Schmidt, Hannes Alessandrini, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Issei Komuro, Christian Frerker, Christian Butter

Giant Fold Gastritis Induced by Epoprostenol Infusion in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Yohei Miura, Masaharu Kataoka, Tomohiro Chiba, Takumi Inami, Hideaki Yoshino, Toru Satoh

Images in Cardiovascular Medicine

Yellow Nail Syndrome Complicating Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Taku Omori, Ryuji Okamoto, Hajime Fujimoto, Jun Masuda, Tetsu Kobayashi, Eitaro Fujii, Yoshiyuki Takei, Masaaki Ito

Vascular Network Inside the Heart — Collateral Flow on Color Doppler Echo in a Child With Anomalous Left Coronary Artery From the Pulmonary Artery (ALCAPA) —
Lisheng Lin, Takashi Murakami, Junko Shiono, Hitoshi Horigome

Rapid-Growing Right Atrial Myxoma 7 Months After Catheter Ablation Under Anticoagulation Therapy — Serial Echocardiography and Computed Tomography —
Nobuhiko Haruki, Takeshi Onohara, Daiki Tsujimoto, Kazuhiko Iitsuka, Yoshiharu Kinugasa, Masahiko Kato, Motonobu Nishimura, Kazuhiro Yamamoto

Overwhelming Suppression of Neointimal Coverage on High-Resolution Coronary Angioscopy After Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon Angioplasty for In-Stent Restenosis of Cobalt-Chrome Everolimus-Eluting Stent
Yuhei Nojima, Shinsuke Nanto, Hidenori Adachi, Madoka Ihara, Tetsuya Kurimoto

Cannon Sounds
Kuniyasu Harimoto, Tatsuya Kawasaki, Tadaaki Kamitani

Letters to the Editor

Myocardial Deformation Analysis and Late-Gadolinium Enhancement: Important Markers of Cardiac Amyloidosis Involvement That Can Masquerade as a False-Negative Diagnosis
(Letter) Gianluca Di Bella, Fausto Pizzino

(Reply) Seitaro Oda

Imbalanced Angiogenesis in Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM)
(Letter) Julie A Damp, Zolt Arany, James D Fett, Lori Blauwet, Uri Elkayam

Ketone Bodies Are an Alternative Energy Source and Exert Antioxidant Effects
(Letter) Yoshiyuki Hattori

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