Inhibitory effect of insulin on vasopressin-induced intracellular calcium response is blunted in hyperinsulinemic hypertensive patients: role of membrane fatty acid composition Koichi MaekawaTakeshi TsujinoMitsuhiro Yokoyama ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 205 - 212
Ascending aorta dilatation in aortic valve disease: morphological analysis of medial changes Lucio AgozzinoPasquale SantèSalvatore Esposito ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 213 - 220
Temporary inferior vena cava filter for deep vein thrombosis and acute pulmonary thromboembolism: effectiveness and indication Ryuichi KaiHiroshi ImamuraUichi Ikeda ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 221 - 225
Detection of coronary artery disease using real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography: a comparison with dual-isotope resting thallium-201/stress technectium-99m sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomography Shoa-Lin LinKuan-Rau ChiouChun-Peng Liu ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 226 - 235
Reperfusion strategy for acute myocardial infarction in elderly patients aged 75 to 80 years Ikuyoshi WatanabeKen NagaoToshio Kushiro ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 236 - 241
Asymptomatic kindred of patients with coronary events have increased peripheral T-cell activities Alper SonmezUcler KisaI. Hakki Kocar ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 242 - 246
Adenosine concentration in great cardiac vein is increased in non-ventricular fibrillation dogs Kazuaki UchinoToshiaki EbinaSatoshi Umemura ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 247 - 250
Addition of spironolactone to an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor decreases lung congestion and edema in Dahl hypertensive rats Isao NishiSatoru KawanoIwao Yamaguchi ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 251 - 255
Massive right atrial myxoma presenting with syncope Dipin GuptaEzequiel MolinaMahender Macha CASE REPORT Pages: 256 - 257
Autoperipheral blood mononuclear cell transplantation improved giant ulcers due to chronic arteriosclerosis obliterans Shinobu SugiharaYasutaka YamamotoIchiro Hisatome CASE REPORT Pages: 258 - 262
Churg–Strauss syndrome and congenital factor Leiden thrombophilia as nontypical causes of intracardiac thrombosis Katarzyna Mizia-StecZbigniew GąsiorMagdalena Mizia CASE REPORT Pages: 263 - 266
Minimally invasive diagnosis of persistent sciatic artery by multidetector-row computed tomographic angiography Hiromitsu HayashiHisashi YoshiharaTatsuo Kumazaki GRAPHIC REPORT Pages: 267 - 269
Giant renal aneurysm with arteriovenous fistula Takayoshi KatoHisato TakagiTakuya Umemoto GRAPHIC REPORT Pages: 270 - 272