1. Impaired left ventricular diastolic function is related to the formation of left ventricular apical thrombus in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction

   • Ung Lim Choi
   • Jae-Hyeong Park
   • In-Whan Seong

   Original Article 28 November 2017 Pages: 447 - 452

   

2. Combined assessment of left ventricular end-diastolic pressure and ejection fraction by left ventriculography predicts long-term outcomes of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

   • Daiga Saito
   • Rine Nakanishi
   • Takanori Ikeda

   Original Article 15 November 2017 Pages: 453 - 461

   

3. Clinical significance of transluminal attenuation gradient in 320-row area detector coronary CT angiography

   • Etsuro Kato
   • Shinichiro Fujimoto
   • Hiroyuki Daida

   Original Article 13 November 2017 Pages: 462 - 469

   

4. A cross-sectional and longitudinal study between association of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids derived from fish consumption and high-density lipoprotein heterogeneity

   • Shigemasa Tani
   • Rei Matsuo
   • Atsushi Hirayama

   Original Article Open access 20 November 2017 Pages: 470 - 480

   

5. A lower eicosapentaenoic acid/arachidonic acid ratio is associated with in-hospital fatal arrhythmic events in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a J-MINUET substudy

   • Takuya Hashimoto
   • Junya Ako
   • on behalf of J-MINUET investigators

   Original Article 16 November 2017 Pages: 481 - 488

   

6. Visit-to-visit variability of systolic blood pressure predicts all-cause mortality in patients received percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents

   • Suk Min Seo
   • Woo-Baek Chung
   • Ki-Bae Seung

   Original Article 18 November 2017 Pages: 489 - 497

   

7. Determinants of short and long door-to-balloon time in current primary percutaneous coronary interventions

   • Takunori Tsukui
   • Kenichi Sakakura
   • Hideo Fujita

   Original Article 20 November 2017 Pages: 498 - 506

   

8. Safety and efficacy of prourokinase injection in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: phase IV clinical trials of the prourokinase phase study

   • Linru Zhao
   • Zhiqiang Zhao
   • The Group of Prourokinase Phase IV Clinical Trials Investigators

   Original Article 05 December 2017 Pages: 507 - 512

   

9. Myocardial perfusion reserve quantified by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is associated with late gadolinium enhancement in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

   • Daisuke Tezuka
   • Hisanori Kosuge
   • Mitsuaki Isobe

   Original Article 22 November 2017 Pages: 513 - 520

   

10. Left ventricular end-diastolic dimension and septal e′ are predictors of cardiac index at rest, while tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion is a predictor of peak oxygen uptake in patients with pulmonary hypertension

    • Yoshihisa Nakano
    • Naoki Okumura
    • Takahisa Kondo

    Original Article Open access 15 November 2017 Pages: 521 - 528

    

11. Dissociated pulmonary vein activity after cryoballoon ablation and radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation: a propensity score-matched analysis

    • Kenichi Tokutake
    • Michifumi Tokuda
    • Teiichi Yamane

    Original Article 17 November 2017 Pages: 529 - 536

    

12. Ascending aortic blood flow velocity is increased in children with primary snoring/mild sleep-disordered breathing and associated with an increase in CD8 ⁺  T cells expressing TNFα and IFNγ

    • Anna Kontos
    • Scott Willoughby
    • Kurt Lushington

    Original Article 22 November 2017 Pages: 537 - 548

    

13. The relationship between systolic vector flow mapping parameters and left ventricular cardiac function in healthy dogs

    • Seijirow Goya
    • Tomoki Wada
    • Ryou Tanaka

    Original Article 11 December 2017 Pages: 549 - 560

    

14. Hyperoxia-induced cardiotoxicity and ventricular remodeling in type-II diabetes mice

    • Jennifer Leigh Rodgers
    • Eva Samal
    • Siva Kumar Panguluri

    Original Article 05 December 2017 Pages: 561 - 572