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{"title":"Changes in the occurrence of mechanical alternans after long-term beta-blocker therapy in patients with chronic heart failure.","authors":"M. Kodama, K. Kato, S. Hirono, H. Hanawa, Y. Okura, M. Ito, K. Fuse, T. Shiono, H. Tachikawa, M. Hayashi, S. Abe, T. Yoshida, Y. Aizawa","doi":"10.1253/JCJ.65.711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1253/JCJ.65.711","url":null,"abstract":"Mechanical alternans has been observed in patients with severe congestive heart failure, and the phenomenon is considered to be a terminal sign. Therapeutic strategies for chronic heart failure have significantly developed, but it is uncertain whether patients with mechanical alternans can be effectively treated or not. Seventeen consecutive patients with dilated cardiomyopathy were enrolled: 11 were treated with beta-blockers on conventional therapeutic regimens and 6 patients were not indicated for or were unable to continue beta-blockade. Mechanical alternans was detected during cardiac catheterization in the patients under physiologic tachycardia (110 beats/min) and stepwise dobutamine loading. In the initial study, mechanical alternans occurred in 70.6% of the patients: 8 of the 11 being treated with beta-blockers and 4 of the 6 without beta-blockade therapy. In the second study, none of the patients taking beta-blockers showed mechanical alternans under the same protocol; the occurrence of mechanical alternans did not change in the patients who were not being treated with beta-blockers. The left ventricular ejection fraction increased in patients whose mechanical alternans could not be induced during the follow up, but decreased in the patients in whom mechanical alternans was repeatedly inducible. It is concluded that mechanical alternans is associated with the failing myocardium and may be potentially correctable.","PeriodicalId":14544,"journal":{"name":"Japanese circulation journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"711-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83660779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prediction of wall motion recovery from the left anterior descending coronary artery velocity pattern recorded by transthoracic doppler echocardiography in patients with anterior wall myocardial infarction retrospective and prospective studies.","authors":"Y. Shintani, H. Ito, K. Iwakura, K. Sugimoto, K. Yamamoto, T. Masuyama, T. Kuzuya, M. Hori, Y. Higashino, K. Fujii","doi":"10.1253/JCJ.65.717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1253/JCJ.65.717","url":null,"abstract":"The diastolic deceleration slope of coronary flow velocity is steeper in patients with substantial 'no reflow' phenomenon than in those without it. This study investigated whether functional outcomes in patients with anterior wall acute myocardial infarction (AMI) can be predicted by analyzing the coronary flow velocity pattern recorded with transthoracic Doppler (TTD) echocardiography. Coronary blood flow velocity in the distal left anterior descending coronary artery was recorded with TTD at day-2 after primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty/Stent in 51 patients with anterior AMI and the diastolic deceleration half time (DHT, ms) was measured. The wall motion score index (WMSI) was measured at day-1 and -21. In the retrospective study, the DHT was much shorter in those with a poor outcome than in those with good outcome (152 +/- 109 vs 395 +/- 128 ms, p<0.05). Receiver-operating characteristic analysis documented that DHT > or = 300 ms is a suitable cut-off point (sensitivity of 83% and specificity of 93%). In the prospective study (n=30), AWMSI(dl-d21) was significantly higher in those with a DHT > or = 300 ms than those without (0.3 > or = 0.5 vs 1.6 > or = 0.7, p<0.001). DHT correlated significantly with AWMSI(dl-d21) (r=0.76, p<0.001). Patients with a shorter DHT of diastolic coronary flow velocity have a poorer functional outcome among patients with anterior AMI. The TTD-determined DHT is a useful predictor of myocardial viability after an anterior AMI.","PeriodicalId":14544,"journal":{"name":"Japanese circulation journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"717-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90126648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correlation between the effective refractory period and activation-recovery interval calculated from the intracardiac unipolar electrogram of humans with and without dl-sotalol treatment.","authors":"M. Chinushi, M. Tagawa, H. Kasai, T. Washizuka, Akira Abe, H. Furushima, Y. Aizawa","doi":"10.1253/JCJ.65.702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1253/JCJ.65.702","url":null,"abstract":"In experimental studies and/or human body surface mapping, the activation-recovery interval (ARI) is used as a parameter to estimate local repolarization. However, it has not been clarified whether the ARI calculated from the intracardiac unipolar electrogram of humans reasonably represents the local effective refractory period (ERP). Measurement of ARIs at multiple ventricular sites can be helpful in assessing the dispersion of ventricular refractoriness of humans, so we examined the relationship between ERP and ARI in the control state and under treatment with dl-sotalol during clinical electrophysiologic studies (EPS). Of 19 patients, an EPS was performed in the control state in 12 and during treatment with dl-sotalol in the other 7. Quadripolar electrode catheters with an interelectrode distance of 5 mm were placed at the right atrium and in the right ventricle. Using atrial pacing, the heart rate was increased incrementally by 10 beats/min, and ERP and ARI were measured for each pacing rate. The ERP at the right ventricle was measured by single extrastimulation between the first and third distal electrodes of the catheter in the right ventricle, and the ARI was calculated from the second distal unipolar electrode of the same catheter as the interval between the minimum derivative of the intrinsic deflection and the maximum derivative of the T wave. In all patients, the unipolar electrogram was stable during the entire EPS, and 83 data points in the control group and 50 in the dl-sotalol group were analyzed. At each pacing rate, the beat-to-beat difference of ARI was less than 10 ms. As the atrial pacing rate increased, the ERP and ARI were progressively shortened, and linear regression analysis revealed an excellent correlation between ERP and ARI. At the same pacing rate, the ERP and ARI in the dl-sotalol group were longer than those in the control group, but no difference was observed in the slope (close to 1.0) and in the intercept of the regression lines between ERP and ARI. In the human ventricle, the ARI calculated from the intracardiac unipolar electrogram represents the local ERP both in the control state and under treatment with dl-sotalol. The ARI can be used as a parameter of local refractoriness and used to study the distribution of refractoriness in the human ventricle.","PeriodicalId":14544,"journal":{"name":"Japanese circulation journal","volume":"122 1","pages":"702-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87746553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differences in inflammatory activity at the onset of acute myocardial infarction according to the clinical presentation of preinfarction angina.","authors":"M. Kosuge, K. Kimura, T. Ishikawa, T. Endo, M. Shimizu, Y. Hongo, O. Tochikubo, S. Umemura","doi":"10.1253/JCJ.65.707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1253/JCJ.65.707","url":null,"abstract":"It is unknown whether the pathogenetic mechanisms underlying acute myocardial infarction (AMI) differ according to the clinical presentation of preinfarction angina, so the present study measured plasma levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) in 280 patients with AMI in whom serum creatine kinase levels were normal on admission and increased subsequently. Patients were classified into 3 groups according to the type of preinfarction angina: no angina (n=95), stable angina (n=48), and unstable angina (n= 137). Patients with unstable angina were subdivided according to the Braunwald classification: class IB (n=39), class IIB (n=22), and class RIB (n=76). There were no differences among the 5 groups in baseline characteristics. CRP on admission was significantly higher and the level of physical activity at symptom onset was significantly lower in the Braunwald class RIB group than in the other groups, but no differences were observed among the other groups. Patients with preinfarction Braunwald class IIB unstable angina had higher CRP levels on admission and symptom onset at a lower level of physical activity. In such patients, the pathogenetic mechanisms may differ from those in other subsets of patients with AMI and active inflammation may play a more important role in AMI onset.","PeriodicalId":14544,"journal":{"name":"Japanese circulation journal","volume":"s3-13 1","pages":"707-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90807874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Right ventricular metastasis from a primary cervical carcinoma.","authors":"T. Iwaki, Hounin Kanaya, M. Namura, M. Ikeda, Y. Uno, N. Terashima, T. Ohka, Yuji Miura, Masami Shimizu, Hiroshi Mabuchi","doi":"10.1253/JCJ.65.761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1253/JCJ.65.761","url":null,"abstract":"A 49-year-old female presented with a 1-month history of cough and low-grade fever. Echocardiography showed a large mass in the right ventricle and percutaneous right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy provided the histologic diagnosis. Despite radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the patient died. At autopsy, the metastatic deposit in the heart was larger than the primary cervical carcinoma.","PeriodicalId":14544,"journal":{"name":"Japanese circulation journal","volume":"72 1","pages":"761-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89624276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Balloon aortic valvuloplasty in children: a multicenter study in Japan.","authors":"H. Tomita, S. Echigo, K. Kimura, T. Kobayashi, T. Nakanishi, R. Ishizawa, T. Akagi, T. Ino, Y. Harada, H. Kado, T. Yagihara","doi":"10.1253/JCJ.65.599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1253/JCJ.65.599","url":null,"abstract":"A questionnaire was used to survey the experience of 8 Japanese institutions with percutaneous transluminal aortic valvuloplasty (PTAV) in children. Among 99 procedures reported in 88 patients, sufficient data for analysis was obtained from 76 procedures in 72 patients. In those 76 procedures the pressure gradient decreased significantly from 68+/-25 (20-140) to 33+/-22 (0-100) mmHg (p<0.01), whereas aortic regurgitation (AR) increased at least one grade in 26 cases (34%). None of the parameters analyzed in this study were predictors of an increase in AR. The reduction in pressure gradient was judged as good in 44 of the 76 procedures (58%). A larger ring diameter, larger balloon diameter and larger ratio balloon diameter/the normal predicted diameter of the aortic valve ring significantly contributed to an effective reduction of pressure gradient. Follow up data (mean interval, 4 years) was available for 26 of 39 clinically effective procedures. AR progressed at least 1 grade in 11 (42%), and the pressure gradient re-developed to more than 50mmHg in 2 cases (8%). In Japan, PTAV has been accepted as a useful procedure for valvular aortic stenosis in children, but progressive AR or re-development of the pressure gradient is not uncommon even after clinically effective PTAV.","PeriodicalId":14544,"journal":{"name":"Japanese circulation journal","volume":"36 1","pages":"599-602"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85474797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ischemic preconditioning and nicorandil pretreatment improve donor heart preservation.","authors":"Zhiwei Zhang, Toshio Kaneda, Kwansong Ku, Masaki Otaki, Hidetaka Oku","doi":"10.1253/JCJ.65.678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1253/JCJ.65.678","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigated the effects of ischemic preconditioning (IPC) and nicorandil pretreatment on myocardial storage in a donor heart preservation model. Isolated rat hearts were separated into groups: group 1, non-preconditioned control group; group 2, 2.5 min of normothermic ischemia followed by 15 min of normothermic Langendorff perfusion (one IPC cycle); and group 3, 2 cycles of IPC. All hearts were subsequently stored in University of Wisconsin solution at 4 degrees C for 2, 4 and 6h, and the concentrations of high-energy phosphate metabolites were measured for each time point. Heart function parameters (aortic flow, coronary flow and cardiac output) were measured when the heart was reperfused following the 2, 4 or 6 h of preservation. The effects of nicorandil, an ATP-sensitive potassium channel opener, on heart function following preservation were also evaluated. Nicorandil was injected intravenously before heart harvesting. The results showed that the energy status was well preserved in the IPC groups. The 2-cycle IPC group showed better recovery of heart function following preservation. Pretreatment with nicorandil also improved functional recovery of the heart following preservation. The present study showed that IPC of the rat heart resulted in improved myocardial energy metabolism and functional recovery after hypothermic preservation, and that nicorandil has potential for pharmacological preconditioning in heart preservation for transplantation.","PeriodicalId":14544,"journal":{"name":"Japanese circulation journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"678-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83197696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of hot bath immersion on autonomic activity and hemodynamics: comparison of the elderly patient and the healthy young.","authors":"Y. Nagasawa, S. Komori, Mitsuko Sato, Yoshiko Tsuboi, K. Umetani, Yuichiro Watanabe, K. Tamura","doi":"10.1253/JCJ.65.587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1253/JCJ.65.587","url":null,"abstract":"Hot bathing has been associated with sudden death and so the present study investigated its effects on autonomic activity and hemodynamics in the elderly patient and the healthy young by analyzing heart rate variability (HRV). Subjects were 9 elderly men (mean age, 75 years) and 9 young men (mean age, 27 years), who were immersed up to shoulder level while in a sitting position for 10min with the bath temperature at 40 degrees C. Blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) were monitored. BP in the young decreased during bathing (p<0.01), whereas in the elderly BP had a maximum value just at the start of immersion (p<0.05) with a slight decline at 4 min after the start of immersion. Although HR in the young increased (p<0.01), in the elderly there was an abrupt increase in HR just at the start of immersion (p<0.05), followed by a decrease in HR. With regard to HRV, the high-frequency (HF) component in the young men was suppressed during immersion (p<0.01), but was unaffected in the elderly. The LF (low frequency)/HF ratio in the elderly decreased at 4 min (p<0.05). In conclusion, hypotensive syncope may cause sudden death by drowning during hot bathing, and is a consequence of the decrease in sympathetic tone that develops approximately 4min after immersion.","PeriodicalId":14544,"journal":{"name":"Japanese circulation journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"587-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88069487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carcinomatous lymphangitis mimicking pulmonary thromboembolism.","authors":"Y. Koutaki, T. Nii, K. Eguchi, K. Kousa, H. Niimura","doi":"10.1253/JCJ.65.683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1253/JCJ.65.683","url":null,"abstract":"A 41-year-old woman was admitted with rapidly worsening dyspnea. Echocardiography disclosed interventricular septal flattening and a markedly decreased left ventricle, although left ventricular contraction remained normal. Computed tomography of the chest demonstrated slightly dilated main pulmonary arteries and fine reticulonodular densities in the lung. Examination of a transbronchial lung biopsy specimen revealed carcinomatous lymphangitis, and the patient died 7 days after admission. The clinical presentation of this patient was difficult to discriminate from that seen with pulmonary thromboembolism.","PeriodicalId":14544,"journal":{"name":"Japanese circulation journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"683-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85480230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Life-threatening pulmonary edema following unilateral stent implantation for bilateral branch pulmonary stenosis: recovery after contralateral stent implantation.","authors":"H. Tomita, K. Kimura, Y. Ono, O. Yamada, T. Yagihara, S. Echigo","doi":"10.1253/JCJ.65.688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1253/JCJ.65.688","url":null,"abstract":"A 13-year-old girl, who was suffering complications with bilateral pulmonary artery stenosis after intracardiac repair for tetralogy of Fallot, suffered life-threatening left pulmonary bleeding and edema following inadvertent unilateral stent implantation for a left pulmonary stenosis. Pulmonary edema and subsequent hypoxia persisted despite intensive medical treatment; however, contralateral stent deployment resolved her symptoms quickly.","PeriodicalId":14544,"journal":{"name":"Japanese circulation journal","volume":"24 2","pages":"688-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91405080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}