1. Treatment effects of renin-angiotensin system inhibitor and calcium channel blocker in patients with coronary artery narrowing (from the Japanese Coronary Artery Disease Study)

   • Masatoshi Fujita
   • Shigetake Sasayama
   • The JCAD Study Investigators

   Original Article 05 October 2010 Pages: 453 - 459

   

2. Effects of telmisartan on markers of ventricular remodeling in patients with acute myocardial infarction: comparison with enalapril

   • Takashi Yokota
   • Tomohiro Osanai
   • Ken Okumura

   Original Article 05 October 2010 Pages: 460 - 468

   

3. Predictive value of the relative lymphocyte count in coronary heart disease

   • Chang Bian
   • Yihua Wu
   • Ji Ma

   Original Article 05 October 2010 Pages: 469 - 473

4. Enhanced expression of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in the myocardium from patients with dilated cardiomyopathy referred for left ventriculoplasty: an immunohistochemical study with special reference to oxidative stress

   • Koji Otsuka
   • Fumio Terasaki
   • Yasushi Kitaura

   Original Article 29 September 2010 Pages: 474 - 484

   

5. Mismatch between arterial stiffness increase and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction

   • Po-Chao Hsu
   • Tsung-Hsien Lin
   • Sheng-Hsiung Sheu

   Original Article 09 October 2010 Pages: 485 - 492

6. Systolic-diastolic coupling of myocardial deformation of the left ventricle in children with left ventricular noncompaction

   • C. Koh
   • W. J. Hong
   • Y. F. Cheung

   Original Article 28 September 2010 Pages: 493 - 499

   

7. Aging modulates dispersion of ventricular repolarization in the very old of the geriatric population

   • Jen-Hung Huang
   • Ying-Qin Lin
   • Yi-Jen Chen

   Original Article 09 October 2010 Pages: 500 - 508

   

8. Re-elevation of d-dimer as a predictor of re-dissection and venous thromboembolism after Stanford type B acute aortic dissection

   • Yusuke Jo
   • Toshihisa Anzai
   • Satoshi Ogawa

   Original Article 09 October 2010 Pages: 509 - 514

   

9. Effect of graft adaptation of the internal mammary artery on longitudinal phasic blood flow velocity characteristics after surgery

   • Setsuo Kumazaki
   • Jun Koyama
   • Uichi Ikeda

   Original Article 05 October 2010 Pages: 515 - 521

   

10. Heart valve surgery in octogenarians: operative and long-term results

    • Shigeaki Aoyagi
    • Shuji Fukunaga
    • Tomohiro Ueda

    Original Article 29 September 2010 Pages: 522 - 528

    

11. Assessment of modified Blalock–Taussig shunt in children with congenital heart disease using multidetector-row computed tomography

    • Manal Mohamed Helmy Nabo
    • Yasunobu Hayabuchi
    • Shoji Kagami

    Original Article 28 September 2010 Pages: 529 - 535

    

12. Prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury by theophylline in elderly patients with chronic kidney disease

    • Jan Matejka
    • Ivo Varvarovsky
    • Jiri Kvasnicka

    Original Article 29 September 2010 Pages: 536 - 542

    

13. Association between clinical characteristics and AL amyloid deposition in the kidney

    • Mitsuyo Itabashi
    • Takashi Takei
    • Kosaku Nitta

    Original Article 05 October 2010 Pages: 543 - 548

    

14. The N-type and L-type calcium channel blocker cilnidipine suppresses renal injury in Dahl rats fed a high-salt diet

    • Shizuka Aritomi
    • Hajime Koganei
    • Tomoyuki Konda

    Original Article 05 October 2010 Pages: 549 - 555

    

15. The role of the large-conductance voltage-dependent and calcium-activated potassium (BK_Ca) channels in the regulation of rat ductus arteriosus tone

    • Fang Sun
    • Emiko Hayama
    • Toshio Nakanishi

    Original Article 09 October 2010 Pages: 556 - 564

    

16. Successful use of the Cardiva Boomerang™ vascular closure device to close a brachial artery puncture site after emergency PTCA

    • Plinio Cirillo
    • Gianluca Petrillo
    • Massimo Chiariello

    Case Report 28 September 2010 Pages: 565 - 568

    

17. Absent pulmonary valve syndrome with ascending aortic aneurysm

    • Chi-Di Liang
    • Sheung-Fat Ko
    • Shun-Chen Huang

    Case Report 29 September 2010 Pages: 569 - 572

    

18. Erratum to: Surgical correction of isolated unilateral absence of right pulmonary artery

    • Takeshi Hiramatsu
    • Shigeru Komori
    • Syoichi Shibuta

    Erratum 28 October 2010 Pages: 573 - 573

19. Online First publication of Heart and Vessels now available

    Announcement 06 November 2010 Pages: 574 - 574

20. Acknowledgment to reviewers

    Acknowledgment 06 November 2010 Pages: 575 - 577