1. Greetings from the new Editor-in-Chief

   • Yuji Ikari

   Editorial 17 December 2010 Pages: 1 - 1

2. The no-reflow phenomenon associated with percutaneous coronary intervention: its mechanisms and treatment

   • Hiroshi Ito

   Review Article 09 October 2010 Pages: 2 - 11

   

3. Initial clinical experience with distal embolic protection using “Filtrap”, a novel filter device with a self-expandable spiral basket in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

   • Takaaki Isshiki
   • Ken Kozuma
   • Yoshito Yamamoto

   Original Article 28 July 2010 Pages: 12 - 17

   

4. Impact of chronic kidney disease on clinical and angiographic results following implantation of sirolimus-eluting coronary stents

   • Yota Kawamura
   • Yoshihiro Morino
   • Yuji Ikari

   Original Article 04 August 2010 Pages: 18 - 25

   

5. Prediction of late restenosis after sirolimus-eluting stent implantation using serial quantitative angiographic and intravascular ultrasound analysis

   • Ryuichi Funada
   • Yuji Oikawa
   • Tadanori Aizawa

   Original Article 11 August 2010 Pages: 26 - 32

   

6. Incidence of side-effects of dual antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin after coronary stent implantation

   • Kenji Ohkubo
   • Yoshio Kobayashi
   • Akira Miyazaki

   Original Article 10 September 2010 Pages: 33 - 37

7. Clinical impact of self-expandable stent diameter after femoropopliteal stenting

   • Yoshimitsu Soga
   • Hiroyoshi Yokoi
   • Masakiyo Nobuyoshi

   Original Article 03 September 2010 Pages: 38 - 44

   

8. A novel intravascular ultrasound-guided percutaneous coronary angioplasty technique via the retrograde approach for chronic total occlusion

   • Toshiya Muramatsu
   • Reiko Tsukahara
   • Yoshiaki Ito

   Original Article 10 September 2010 Pages: 45 - 51

   

9. Moderate stenosis in left main trunk side branches treated with single sirolimus-eluting stents should be observed without additional stenting

   • Yasuko Kato
   • Nobuo Shiode
   • Asao Mimura

   Original Article 26 November 2010 Pages: 52 - 56

   

10. Conundrum: intervention for unprotected left main bifurcation coronary lesions

    • Shigeru Fukuzawa

    Editorial Comment 10 November 2010 Pages: 57 - 59

11. Removal of broken balloon mitral valvotomy coiled guidewire from giant left atrium using indigenous snare

    • Ravindranath Khandenahally Shankarappa
    • Arunkumar Panneerselvam
    • Manjunath Cholenahally Nanjappa

    Case Report 30 June 2010 Pages: 60 - 63

    

12. Very late stent thrombosis occurring simultaneously in sirolimus-eluting stents and bare-metal stent in three different coronary vessels

    • Yoshitaka Kawaguchi
    • Junpei Katayama
    • Nobuyuki Wakahara

    Case Report 24 July 2010 Pages: 64 - 69

    

13. Percutaneous coronary intervention for left main trunk ostial stenosis in a patient with Takayasu’s arteritis

    • Haengnam Park
    • Hajime Otani
    • Toshiji Iwasaka

    Case Report 03 July 2010 Pages: 70 - 73

    

14. Dramatic improvement of rapidly progressing acute renal failure and severe hypertension after bilateral renal artery stenting

    • Norihiko Shinozaki
    • Kazuo Hoshino
    • Katsuhiko Tamura

    Case Report 09 October 2010 Pages: 74 - 78

    

15. Effect of cilostazol on optimized standard antiplatelet therapy in a patient with a cytochrome P450 2C19 *2/*2 genotype

    • Qiang Fu
    • Nobuaki Suzuki
    • Takaaki Isshiki

    Case Report 18 November 2010 Pages: 79 - 82

    

16. Intravascular ultrasound-guided percutaneous coronary interventions with minimum contrast volume for prevention of the radiocontrast-induced nephropathy: report of two cases

    • Nobuhiko Ogata
    • Takashi Matsukage
    • Yuji Ikari

    Case Report 06 November 2010 Pages: 83 - 88