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 ...
Sadako Motoyama   Masayoshi Sarai   Kaori Inoue   Hideki Kawai   Hajime Ito   Hiroto Harigaya   Kayoko Takada   Yoshihiro Sanda   Hirofumi Anno   Hiroyuki Naruse   Junnichi Ishii   Yukio Ozaki   
Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society 77(2) 411-7 2013年 [査読有り]
BACKGROUND: The role of combined evaluation of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI; by single-photon emission computed tomography) and computed tomography angiography (CTA) for risk stratification of coronary artery disease was evaluated. For CTA, t...
Journal of Epidemiology 23(3) 163-168 2013年 [査読有り]
Background: Several epidemiologic studies have reported an inverse association between serum levels of carotenoids and cardiovascular disease risk. However, no studies have reported an association between serum carotenoids and N-terminal pro-brain...
Objective To study the usefulness of combined risk stratification of coronary CT angiography (CTA) and myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in patients with previous coronary-artery-bypass grafting (CABG).
Design A retrospective, observational, sing...
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