Tetsuma Kawaji

AI was strongly correlated with lesion depth, width, and volume, but only within a small range of contact angles and RF power delivery settings.

In 35 consecutive patients with TC, those with significant LVOT obstruction (33%) had a more serious clinical presentation such as CHF and hypotension, but had similar 3-year mortality rate as compared with those without.

The long-term mortality of STEMI patients complicated by cardiogenic shock due to acute pump failure remains high even in the current clinical practice. In this high-risk category of patients, shorter onset-to-balloon and door-to-balloon time were associated with significantly lower long-term risk for mortality.

EAVM during AF rhythm was feasible and the optimal cutoff value of LVA was 0.2 mV for detecting LVA ≤ 0.5 mV during SR. However, the evidence is restricted to patients with relatively small LVA.

Intravenous nifekalant injection during additional CFAE ablation did not improve sinus maintenancerate after RFCA procedure for AF, but AF termination by nifekalant injection could be a clinical predictor of better success rates after procedure.

Low BNP concentrations had a favorable impact on clinical outcomes after AF ablation. The heterogeneous impact of baseline BNP concentrations on arrhythmia recurrence for the subgroups of patients divided by AF type warrants future larger studies with longer follow-up periods.

Inverted T wave was commonly observed in patients with AF and its presence during AF rhythm was associated with subsequent cardiac events.

Background The clinical significance of fibrillatory wave on electrocardiography during atrial fibrillation (AF) is poorly understood. The aim of the current study was to explore the association of fine fibrillatory wave with heart failure (HF) in AF. Methods and Results The current study enrolled 2442 patients with AF whose baseline ECG during AF rhythm was available from a community-based prospective survey, the Fushimi AF Registry. The impact of fine fibrillatory wave, defined as the amplitud

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DES implantation provided favorable long-term clinical outcomes with an acceptably low incidence of fatal bleeding in a real-world population of ACS patients. However, prolonged DAPT seems to be associated with major bleeding after DES implantation.