Long-term safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents remains controversial. The CREDO-Kyoto registry cohort-2 is a physician-initiated non-company sponsored multi-center registry enrolling… (More)
It yet has not been clarified whether there is a late catch-up phenomenon in target lesion revascularization (TLR) after sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) compared to bare metal stent (BMS) implantation.… (More)
The purpose of the LDL-Apheresis Regression Study (LARS) group, which included 13 institutions in Japan, was to investigate the effects on coronary atherosclerosis of LDL-apheresis combined with… (More)
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) using a drug-eluting stent (DES) leads to less re-stenosis than PCI using a bare metal stent (BMS), however there is still controversy whether use of a DES… (More)
The relationship between the concentrations of intermediate-density lipoprotein (IDL) and other lipoproteins and the extent of coronary artery disease (CAD) was studied in 182 consecutive patients… (More)
BACKGROUND
There has not been a comparison of the electrocardiographic (ECG) finding of ST-segment elevation in the precordial leads in patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) and those with… (More)
We studied the effects of ML-236B, a competitive inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase, on serum levels of lipoproteins and ubiquinone-10-in seven heterozygous… (More)
Achilles tendon thickness (ATT) of 112 patients with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) with and without ischemic heart disease (IHD) was measured radiographically and was compared with that of… (More)