1. Stenting alone versus debulking and debulking plus stent in branch ostial lesions of native coronary arteries

   • Chang-Min Chung
   • Shigeru Nakamura
   • Osamu Katoh

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 213 - 220

2. Effect of atrial pressure increase on sinus node automaticity

   • Michael Efremidis
   • Antonios Sideris
   • Fotis Kardaras

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 221 - 224

3. Which patients can be weaned from inotropic support within 24 hours after cardiac surgery?

   • Hiroyuki Tsukui
   • Eisei Koh
   • Mitsugu Ogawa

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 225 - 229

4. FX minirail balloon angioplasty for the treatment of patients with in-stent restenosis: a matched comparison of 6 months’ outcome with conventional balloon angioplasty

   • Oben Döven
   • Hasan Pekdemir
   • V. Gokhan Cin

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 230 - 236

5. Circulating interleukin-6 family cytokines and their receptors in patients with congestive heart failure

   • Hisao Hirota
   • Masahiro Izumi
   • Keiko Yamauchi-Takihara

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 237 - 241

6. Local delivery of green tea catechins inhibits neointimal formation in the rat carotid artery injury model

   • Dong-Woon Kim
   • Young-Sun Park
   • Hee-Yul Ahn

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 242 - 247

7. Patients with mild hypertensive heart disease and left ventricular outflow tract obstruction: treatment with angiotensin II antagonists

   • Mikiko Nakagawa
   • Nario Sano
   • Tetsunori Saikawa

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 248 - 251

8. Three cases of ischemic ulcer due to arteriosclerosis obliterans responding to basic fibroblast growth factor spray

   • Manabu Noguchi
   • Kiyoyuki Eishi
   • Shiro Hazama

   CASE REPORT Pages: 252 - 256