1. Platelet function in pregnant women receiving aspirin and dipyridamole

   • Keiko Kinouchi
   • Tomio Fujita
   • Seiji Kitamura

   Original articles Pages: 115 - 118

2. Continuous intra-arterial blood gas monitoring during thoracic surgery

   • Seiji Ishikawa
   • Susumu Ohmi
   • Koshi Makita

   Pages: 119 - 123

3. Pharmacokinetic profile of propofol after a single-dose injection during general anesthesia in Japanese adults

   • Yoshinori Okada
   • Masashi Kawamoto
   • Osafumi Yuge

   Pages: 124 - 127

4. Effects of sevoflurane and isoflurane on the ratio of cerebral blood flow/metabolic rate for oxygen in neurosurgery

   • Yasuhiro Kuroda
   • Mari Murakami
   • Takefumi Sakabe

   Pages: 128 - 134

5. Propofol injection pain is not alleviated by pretreatment with flurbiprofen axetil, a prodrug of a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug

   • Fujio Karasawa
   • Takafumi Ehata
   • Tetsuo Satoh

   Pages: 135 - 137

6. Changes in left ventricular end-diastolic area, end-systolic wall stress, and fractional area change during anesthetic induction with propofol or thiamylal

   • Ken Yamaura
   • Sumio Hoka
   • Shosuke Takahashi

   Pages: 138 - 142

7. Quantification of the degradation products of sevoflurane using four brands of CO₂ absorbent in a standard anesthetic circuit

   • Yukako Ikeuchi
   • Hiromichi Bito
   • Shigehito Sato

   Pages: 143 - 146

8. Effect of linear polarized light radiation on impaired mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in skeletal muscle

   • Akira Kudoh
   • Akitomo Matsuki

   Pages: 147 - 150

9. Myocardial ischemia due to paradoxical air embolism during living-related donor liver transplantation in a child

   • Takehiko Adachi
   • Yuji Oda
   • Kazuhiko Fukuda

   Clinical reports Pages: 151 - 153

10. Serum mucin-like glycoprotein antigen (KL-6) as a specific marker of interstitial pneumonia: a case report

    • Ryu Okutani
    • Sadataka Kyo
    • Chikara Tashiro

    Pages: 154 - 156

11. Pulmonary edema after laparoscopic adrenalectomy in a pregnant patient with Cushing's syndrome

    • Yasunori M. Nakashima
    • Yasuhiro Itonaga
    • Shosuke Takahashi

    Pages: 157 - 159

12. Unexpected resistance to pancuronium in a patient with myotonic dystrophy (myotonia dystrophica)

    • Kenji Kodama
    • Takashi Akata
    • Shosuke Takahashi

    Pages: 160 - 163

13. A randomized, double-blind trial comparing the effect of mixing propofol with either lidocaine or nafamostat mesilate on injection pain

    • Hiroshi Iwama

    Short communications Pages: 164 - 165

14. Binding of [¹⁴C]thiopental to rat cerebrocortical membranes

    • Kazuyoshi Hirota
    • David G. Lambert

    Pages: 166 - 168

15. Inadvertent subcutaneous infusion of propofol by a syringe pump

    • Rumiko Uda

    Letters to the editor Pages: 169 - 170

16. pH-Stat management is more appropriate during deep hypothermia, especially when circulatory arrest is added

    • Tadaomi-Alfonso Miyamoto
    • Koho-Julio Miyamoto

    Pages: 171 - 172