1. Intravascular ultrasound assessment of the association between spatial orientation of ruptured coronary plaques and remodeling morphology of culprit plaques in ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction

   • Ikuyoshi Kusama
   • Kiyoshi Hibi
   • Kazuo Kimura

   Original Article 03 September 2011 Pages: 541 - 547

   

2. Upright T waves in lead aVR are associated with cardiac death or hospitalization for heart failure in patients with a prior myocardial infarction

   • Kumie Torigoe
   • Akira Tamura
   • Junichi Kadota

   Original Article 04 October 2011 Pages: 548 - 552

   

3. Comparison between sirolimus- and paclitaxel-eluting stents for the treatment of older patients affected by coronary artery disease: results from a single-center allcomers registry

   • Paolo Buja
   • Davide Lanzellotti
   • Giuseppe Tarantini

   Original Article 12 October 2011 Pages: 553 - 558

4. Coronary artery surgery in octogenarians: evolving strategies for the improvement in early and late results

   • Francesco Nicolini
   • Alberto Molardi
   • Tiziano Gherli

   Original Article 02 November 2011 Pages: 559 - 567

   

5. Aspirin, clopidogrel, and warfarin use and outcomes in a cohort of 580 patients discharged after hospitalization for decompensated heart failure

   • Güliz Kozdağ
   • Mehmet Yaymacı
   • Dilek Ural

   Original Article 10 September 2011 Pages: 568 - 575

   

6. Cross-sectional relationship of a Mediterranean type diet to diastolic heart function in chronic heart failure patients

   • Christina Chrysohoou
   • Christos Pitsavos
   • Christodoulos Stefanadis

   Original Article 27 September 2011 Pages: 576 - 584

7. Simple and new technique to assess left internal mammary artery function by left ventriculography

   • Ahmet Karabulut
   • Mahmut Çakmak
   • Ahmet Bilici

   Original Article 17 September 2011 Pages: 585 - 593

   

8. Usefulness of tissue Doppler echocardiography to predict perioperative cardiac events in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery

   • Sonoko Saito
   • Atsushi Takagi
   • Nobuhisa Hagiwara

   Original Article 12 October 2011 Pages: 594 - 602

   

9. The short- and medium-term results of transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension

   • Zhi-wei Huang
   • Zhi-xin Fan
   • Bing-xiang Wu

   Original Article 17 September 2011 Pages: 603 - 609

   

10. Left atrial dilatation and ST-T changes predict cardiovascular outcome in chronic hemodialysis patients

    • Kiyotsugu Omae
    • Tetsuya Ogawa
    • Kosaku Nitta

    Original Article 28 September 2011 Pages: 610 - 617

    

11. Spontaneous retinal venous pulsatility in patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease

    • S. Mojtaba Golzan
    • John Leaney
    • Stuart L. Graham

    Original Article 17 November 2011 Pages: 618 - 623

    

12. Matrix metalloprotein-9 activation under cell-to-cell interaction between endothelial cells and monocytes: possible role of hypoxia and tumor necrosis factor-α

    • Yuko Yamamoto
    • Tomohiro Osanai
    • Ken Okumura

    Original Article 11 January 2012 Pages: 624 - 633

    

13. Primary percutaneous coronary intervention and intravascular ultrasound imaging for coronary thrombosis after cisplatin-based chemotherapy

    • Daisuke Ito
    • Jun Shiraishi
    • Hiroaki Matsubara

    Case Report 05 January 2012 Pages: 634 - 638

    

14. Transbrachial intra-aortic balloon pumping for a patient with fulminant myocarditis

    • Iwao Okai
    • Kenji Inoue
    • Hiroyuki Daida

    Case Report 17 February 2012 Pages: 639 - 642

    

15. Successful radiofrequency catheter ablation of common atrial flutter at the bottom of a coronary sinus diverticulum

    • Miyako Igarashi
    • Hiroshi Tada
    • Kazutaka Aonuma

    Case Report 14 February 2012 Pages: 643 - 647

    

16. Acknowledgment to reviewers

    Acknowledgment 14 November 2012 Pages: 648 - 650