Increased soluble vascular adhesion molecule-1 concentration is associated with impaired coronary flow reserve in cardiac syndrome X Byung Ju ShimDong Hyeon LeeHo Joong Youn Original Article 31 October 2013 Pages: 723 - 731
To kiss or not to kiss? Impact of final kissing-balloon inflation on early and long-term results of percutaneous coronary intervention for bifurcation lesions Giuseppe Biondi-ZoccaiImad SheibanEnrico Romagnoli Original Article 28 September 2013 Pages: 732 - 742
Characteristics of plaque progression detected by serial coronary computed tomography angiography Hajime ItoSadako MotoyamaYukio Ozaki Original Article 11 October 2013 Pages: 743 - 749
Impact of tissue characteristics on luminal narrowing of mild angiographic coronary stenosis: assessment of integrated backscatter intravascular ultrasound Makoto IwamaShinichiro TanakaShinya Minatoguchi Original Article 24 October 2013 Pages: 750 - 760
Prognostic impact of lipid contents on the target lesion in patients with drug eluting stent implantation Soichiro KumagaiHiroaki TakashimaTetsuya Amano Original Article 20 October 2013 Pages: 761 - 768
Hyperglycemia, acute insulin resistance, and renal dysfunction in the early phase of ST-elevation myocardial infarction without previously known diabetes: impact on long-term prognosis Chiara LazzeriSerafina ValenteGian Franco Gensini Original Article 20 October 2013 Pages: 769 - 775
Mitral and aortic valve sclerosis/calcification and carotid atherosclerosis: results from 1065 patients Andrea RossiPompilio FaggianoCorrado Vassanelli Original Article 07 November 2013 Pages: 776 - 783
Baseline cardiac magnetic resonance imaging versus baseline endomyocardial biopsy for the prediction of left ventricular reverse remodeling and prognosis in response to therapy in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy Takeru NabetaTakayuki InomataTohru Izumi Original Article Open access 04 October 2013 Pages: 784 - 792
Clinical and imaging predictors of 1-year and long-term mortality in light chain (AL) amyloidosis: a 5-year follow-up study Raymond Q. MigrinoLeanne HarmannParameswaran Hari Original Article 19 October 2013 Pages: 793 - 800
Prevalence and the long-term prognosis of functional mitral regurgitation in Japanese patients with symptomatic heart failure Hidehiro KanekoShinya SuzukiTakeshi Yamashita Original Article 26 November 2013 Pages: 801 - 807
Impact of radiofrequency catheter ablation on echocardiographic and cardiopulmonary performance in patients with ventricular extrasystolic beats and suspected arrhythmia-induced cardiomyopathy Tomasz KrynskiSebastian StecGrzegorz Opolski Original Article 13 October 2013 Pages: 808 - 816
Electroanatomically estimated length of slow pathway in atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia Tadanobu IrieYoshiaki KanekoMasahiko Kurabayashi Original Article Open access 13 October 2013 Pages: 817 - 824
Assessment of ventricular relaxation and stiffness using early diastolic mitral annular and inflow velocities in pediatric patients with heart disease Satoshi MasutaniHirofumi SaikiHideaki Senzaki Original Article 13 October 2013 Pages: 825 - 833
Forced aggregation and defined factors allow highly uniform-sized embryoid bodies and functional cardiomyocytes from human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells Martin PeslIvana AcimovicAlbano C. Meli Original Article 21 November 2013 Pages: 834 - 846
Low serum eicosapentaenoic acid level is a risk for ventricular arrhythmia in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a possible link to J-waves Tomohide EndoHirofumi TomitaKen Okumura Original Article 09 November 2013 Pages: 847 - 854
The presence of mu-, delta-, and kappa-opioid receptors in human heart tissue Piotr SobanskiMalgorzata KrajnikShaaban A. Mousa Original Article 05 January 2014 Pages: 855 - 863
Descending aorta–external iliac artery bypass for middle aortic syndrome Yuki OkamotoKazuo YamamotoShinpei Yoshii Case Report 26 November 2013 Pages: 864 - 866
Three cases of corticosteroid therapy triggering ventricular fibrillation in J-wave syndromes Naka SakamotoNobuyuki SatoNaoyuki Hasebe Case Report Open access 27 November 2013 Pages: 867 - 872
Rapidly progressive symptom development of pulmonary arterial hypertension: a case report of Trousseau syndrome Hiroo KatoTakanori ShumiyaKenji Okumura Case Report 26 November 2013 Pages: 873 - 877