1. Transcatheter heart valve for aortic valve implantation: republication of the article published in the Japanese Journal of Artificial Organs

   • Hideki Oshima

   Review 09 February 2018 Pages: 125 - 131

   

2. Current status and issues of the artificial pancreas: abridged English translation of a special issue in Japanese

   • Tsutomu Namikawa
   • Masaya Munekage
   • Kazuhiro Hanazaki

   Review 22 January 2018 Pages: 132 - 137

   

3. Differences in clotting parameters between species for preclinical large animal studies of cardiovascular devices

   • Toshihide Mizuno
   • Tomonori Tsukiya
   • Eisuke Tatsumi

   Original Article 09 November 2017 Pages: 138 - 141

   

4. Development of a novel shrouded impeller pediatric blood pump

   • Talha Irfan Khan
   • Haris Sheh Zad
   • Ozlem Yalcin

   Original Article 24 February 2018 Pages: 142 - 149

   

5. Outflow graft anastomosis site design could be correlated to aortic valve regurgitation under left ventricular assist device support

   • Kei Iizuka
   • Tomohiro Nishinaka
   • Kenji Yamazaki

   Original Article 21 November 2017 Pages: 150 - 155

   

6. Preclinical animal study of the NIPRO-ventricular assist device for use in pediatric patients

   • Noritsugu Naito
   • Yoshiaki Takewa
   • Eisuke Tatsumi

   Original Article 24 November 2017 Pages: 156 - 163

   

7. Impact of mitral valve intervention with left ventricular assist device implantation on postoperative outcomes and morphologic change

   • Hiroki Hata
   • Tomoyuki Fujita
   • Junjiro Kobayashi

   Original Article 27 November 2017 Pages: 164 - 171

   

8. Diagnosis, medical treatment, and stepwise mechanical circulatory support for fulminat myocarditis

   • Shunsuke Saito
   • Koichi Toda
   • Yoshiki Sawa

   Original Article 13 December 2017 Pages: 172 - 179

   

9. Effect of obesity on outcomes in patients undergoing implantation of continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices

   • Nastasya Volkovicher
   • Chitaru Kurihara
   • Jeffrey A. Morgan

   Original Article 25 January 2018 Pages: 180 - 187

   

10. Continuous renal replacement therapy with a polymethyl methacrylate membrane hemofilter suppresses inflammation in patients after open-heart surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass

    • Hiroshi Mukaida
    • Satoshi Matsushita
    • Atsushi Amano

    Original Article 05 February 2018 Pages: 188 - 195

    

11. Soluble fibrin is a useful marker for predicting extracorporeal membrane oxygenation circuit exchange because of circuit clots

    • Kota Hoshino
    • Kentaro Muranishi
    • Hiroyasu Ishikura

    Original Article 30 January 2018 Pages: 196 - 200

    

12. Inhalative sedation with small tidal volumes under venovenous ECMO

    • Axel Rand
    • Peter K. Zahn
    • Uwe Hamsen

    Original Article 05 March 2018 Pages: 201 - 205

    

13. Correction to: Inhalative sedation with small tidal volumes under venovenous ECMO

    • Axel Rand
    • Peter K. Zahn
    • Uwe Hamsen

    Correction 05 April 2018 Pages: 206 - 206

14. Effect of heat stress on contractility of tissue-engineered artificial skeletal muscle

    • Shunya Takagi
    • Tomohiro Nakamura
    • Toshia Fujisato

    Original Article 23 January 2018 Pages: 207 - 214

    

15. Acetaminophen clearance during ex vivo continuous renal replacement therapies

    • Bridget A. Scoville
    • Vera Vulaj
    • Deborah S. Wagner

    Original Article 23 October 2017 Pages: 215 - 219

    

16. Adsorptive filtration systems for effective removal of blood amyloid β: a potential therapy for Alzheimer’s disease

    • Nobuya Kitaguchi
    • Kazunori Kawaguchi
    • Yukio Yuzawa

    Original Article 11 December 2017 Pages: 220 - 229

    

17. Vascularization of pancreatic decellularized scaffold with endothelial progenitor cells

    • Yibing Guo
    • Cen Wu
    • Zhiwei Wang

    Original Article 24 January 2018 Pages: 230 - 237

    

18. Rapid prototyping prosthetic hand acting by a low-cost shape-memory-alloy actuator

    • Enrique Soriano-Heras
    • Fernando Blaya-Haro
    • José María de Agustín del Burgo

    Original Article 08 January 2018 Pages: 238 - 246

    

19. Application of actuator-driven pulsed water jet for coronary artery bypass grafting: assessment in a swine model

    • Tomoyuki Suzuki
    • Shunsuke Kawamoto
    • Yoshikatsu Saiki

    Original Article 16 November 2017 Pages: 247 - 253

    

20. Investigation of adverse events associated with an off-label use of arterial stents and CE-marked iliac vein stents in the iliac vein: insights into developing a better iliac vein stent

    • Takuya Shida
    • Mitsuo Umezu
    • Kiyotaka Iwasaki

    Original Article 06 February 2018 Pages: 254 - 260

    

21. A case report of the first application of culture epithelial autograft (JACE^®) for giant congenital melanocytic nevus after its approval in Japan

    • Naoki Morimoto
    • Natsuko Kakudo
    • Kenji Kusumoto

    Case Report 17 November 2017 Pages: 261 - 264