1. Does the presence of coronary artery disease affect the outcome of aortic valve replacement?

   • Kaoru Matsuura
   • Hideki Ueda
   • Goro Matsumiya

   Original Article 25 July 2017 Pages: 1 - 8

   

2. Smoking cessation reduces the lectin-like low-density lipoprotein receptor index, an independent cardiovascular risk marker of vascular inflammation

   • Maki Komiyama
   • Hiromichi Wada
   • Koji Hasegawa

   Original Article Open access 31 July 2017 Pages: 9 - 16

3. Association of epicardial adipose tissue with coronary spasm and coronary atherosclerosis in patients with chest pain: analysis of data collated by the KoRean wOmen’S chest pain rEgistry (koROSE)

   • Mi-Na Kim
   • Hack-Lyoung Kim
   • Wan-Joo Shim

   Original Article 01 August 2017 Pages: 17 - 24

   

4. Determinants of survival and favorable neurologic outcomes in ischemic heart disease treated by veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

   • Keisuke Yonezu
   • Kenichi Sakakura
   • Hideo Fujita

   Original Article 03 August 2017 Pages: 25 - 32

   

5. Clinical outcomes of left main crossover stenting for ostial left anterior descending artery acute myocardial infarction

   • Kei Yamamoto
   • Kenichi Sakakura
   • Hideo Fujita

   Original Article 03 August 2017 Pages: 33 - 40

   

6. Relationship between left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and very late recurrences after multiple procedures for atrial fibrillation ablation

   • Naoaki Onishi
   • Kazuaki Kaitani
   • Yoshihisa Nakagawa

   Original Article 01 August 2017 Pages: 41 - 48

   

7. Prognostic value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging for life-threatening arrhythmia detected by implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in Japanese patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

   • Yasuki Hen
   • Mayuko Tsugu-Yagawa
   • Tsutomu Yoshikawa

   Original Article 01 August 2017 Pages: 49 - 57

   

8. Angles between the aortic root and the left ventricle assessed by MDCT are associated with the risk of aortic regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

   • Vincent Roule
   • Alexandre Placente
   • Farzin Beygui

   Original Article 10 August 2017 Pages: 58 - 65

   

9. Randomized controlled trial of moderate hypothermia versus deep hypothermia anesthesia on brain injury during Stanford A aortic dissection surgery

   • Xufang Sun
   • Hua Yang
   • Zhenxiang Pan

   Original Article 23 August 2017 Pages: 66 - 71

10. Comparison of mitral competence after mitral repair with papillary muscle approximation versus papillary muscle relocation for functional mitral regurgitation

    • Koji Furukawa
    • Mitsuhiro Yano
    • Kunihide Nakamura

    Original Article 12 August 2017 Pages: 72 - 79

    

11. Cytoprotective effects of transgenic neuroglobin overexpression in an acute and chronic mouse model of ischemic heart disease

    • Evi Luyckx
    • Bert R. Everaert
    • Sylvia Dewilde

    Original Article 02 November 2017 Pages: 80 - 88

    

12. Low body mass index correlates with low left ventricular mass index in patients with severe anorexia nervosa

    • Masanari Kuwabara
    • Koichiro Niwa
    • Daisuke Ohta

    Short Communication 08 September 2017 Pages: 89 - 93