1. Recent insights into the mechanisms, predisposing factors, and racial differences of coronary vasospasm

   • Kunihisa Miwa
   • Masatoshi Fujita
   • Shigetake Sasayama

   REVIEW ARTICLE Pages: 1 - 7

2. Improvement of arterial stiffness by the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of short-term statin therapy in patients with hypercholesterolemia

   • Takashi Matsuo
   • Kazunori Iwade
   • Hiroshi Kasanuki

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 8 - 12

3. Relation of stent overexpansion to the angiographic no-reflow phenomenon in intravascular ultrasound-guided stent implantation for acute myocardial infarction

   • Yuichiro Maekawa
   • Yasushi Asakura
   • Satoshi Ogawa

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 13 - 18

4. Placement of pacemaker leads via the extrathoracic subclavian vein guided by fluoroscopy and venography in the oblique projection

   • Yoshiaki Harada
   • Asako Katsume
   • Hiroaki Matsubara

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 19 - 22

5. Reduced sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺ uptake and increased Na⁺–Ca²⁺ exchanger expression in left ventricle myocardium of dogs with progression of heart failure

   • Sudhish Mishra
   • Hani N. Sabbah
   • Ramesh C. Gupta

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 23 - 32

6. Successful repair of a large aortic abscess causing apical displacement of the anterior mitral valve

   • Ilhan Gunay
   • Murat Mert
   • Barıs Okcun

   CASE REPORT Pages: 33 - 36

7. Pulmonary hypertension during epileptic seizure with evidence of increased angiotensin II in pulmonary artery

   • Yoko Ueno
   • Atsushi Takagi
   • Hiroshi Kasanuki

   CASE REPORT Pages: 37 - 38

8. A 22-year-old woman with lower limb arteriopathy. Buerger’s disease, or methamphetamine- or cannabis-induced arteritis?

   • Boris Leithäuser
   • Alexander C. Langheinrich
   • F. Reinhard Matthias

   CASE REPORT Pages: 39 - 43