The renal angina index (RAI) is a validated scoring tool for predicting acute kidney injury (AKI). We investigated the efficacy of the RAI in 2436 heterogeneous patients (mean age, 70 years) treated in cardiac intensive care units (CICUs). The RAI...
Contrast-associated acute kidney injury (CA-AKI) is a complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Because proteinuria is a sentinel marker of renal dysfunction, we assessed its role in predicting CA-AKI in patients undergoing PCI. A ...
OBJECTIVE: High-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is a damage-associated molecular pattern molecule, which suggests a potential role of this protein in the pathophysiology of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Circulating HMGB1 has been shown to be indepen...
Diabetology International 3(1) 29-36 2012年3月 [査読有り]
Background: Chronic elevation of cardiac troponin T (TnT) levels as measured by conventional assays is strongly associated with structural heart disease and cardiovascular events. A new high-sensitivity assay for TnT makes it possible to measure c...
Diabetology International 3(1) 29-36 2012年3月 [査読有り]
Background: Chronic elevation of cardiac troponin T (TnT) levels as measured by conventional assays is strongly associated with structural heart disease and cardiovascular events. A new high-sensitivity assay for TnT makes it possible to measure c...
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of statin treatment on coronary plaque composition and morphology by optical coherence tomography (OCT), grayscale and integrated backscatter (IB) intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) ima...
Ito H   Motoyama S   Sarai M   Kawai H   Nagahara Y   Harigaya H   Kan S   Naruse H   Ishii J   Ozaki Y   
Shiino K   Sugimoto K   Yamada A   Inuzuka H   Kato M   Sone M   Takada K   Sugimoto K   Takagi Y   Iwase M   Ozaki Y   
Impact of Mild   Increase in   Serum Creatinine Levels in Patients   Undergoing Emergency Coronary Intervention for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS   
Ito H   Motoyama S   Sarai M   Kawai H   Nagahara Y   Takada K   Okumura M   Naruse H   Ishii J   Ozaki Y   
Okuyama R   Ishii J   Suzuki A   Hashimoto T   Hattori K   Kawai H   Okumura M   Naruse H   Motoyama S   Matsui S   Watanabe E   Izawa H   Ito M   Ozaki Y