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 ...
Hajime Ito   Sadako Motoyama   Masayoshi Sarai   Hideki Kawai   Hiroto Harigaya   Shino Kan   Shigeru Kato   Hirofumi Anno   Hiroshi Takahashi   Hiroyuki Naruse   Junichi Ishii   Jagat Narula   Yukio Ozaki   
Heart and vessels 29(6) 743-9 2014年11月
We previously reported that serial coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) had a potential to evaluate the interval change of plaque morphology of coronary arteries. The aim of this study was to evaluate variables associated with the plaque...
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