International Heart Journal

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Volume 59 (2018) Issue 6 Pages 1458-1461

Bifurcation Intervention in Single Coronary Artery

Akira Shikuma, Jun Shiraishi, Nariko Koshi, Yuki Matsubara, Tetsuro Nishimura, Keisuke Shoji, Daisuke Ito, Masayoshi Kimura, Eigo Kishita, Yusuke Nakagawa, Masayuki Hyogo, Takahisa Sawada

A 77-year-old man was referred to our hospital for angina on effort. Coronary angiography and computed tomography demonstrated a single coronary artery arising from the right sinus of Valsalva. The left circumflex coronary artery (LCx) anomalously deriving near from the ostium of right coronary artery exhibited severe stenosis in the bifurcation of the obtuse marginal branch. Although the bifurcation lesion still remains a therapeutic challenge for guide extension catheter (GEC)-based percutaneous coronary intervention, under the guidance of intravascular ultrasound imaging, we successfully implanted an everolimus-eluting stent at the bifurcated LCx lesion and performed kissing balloon inflation using 0.014- and 0.010-inch systems through GECs.

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2018 Volume 59 Issue 6

The Inflammatory Transcription Factor C/EBPβ Plays a Critical Role in Cardiac Fibroblast Differentiation and a Rat Model of Cardiac Fibrosis Induced by Autoimmune Myocarditis Xiu Li, Menghua Sun, Suzhen Men, Yanan Shi, Lijuan Ma, Yongqiang An, Yaqing Gao, Hui Jin, Wei Liu, Zuoyi Du
Lower Circulating Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Are Associated with Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction Evaluated by Hyperemic Microvascular Resistance in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease Takahiro Muroya, Hiroaki Kawano, Seiji Koga, Satoshi Ikeda, Fumi Yamamoto, Takashi Miwa, Yusuke Kohno, Koji Maemura
Endothelial Dysfunction of Conduit Arteries in Patients with Repaired Coarctation of the Aorta Yoshihiro Nozaki, Kasumi Nakayama-Inaba, Tomoko Ishizu, Noriko Iida, Yoshiaki Kato, Yuji Hiramatsu, Hitoshi Horigome
Nanoparticle-Mediated Targeting of Pitavastatin to Small Pulmonary Arteries and Leukocytes by Intravenous Administration Attenuates the Progression of Monocrotaline-Induced Established Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Rats Kenzo Ichimura, Tetsuya Matoba, Jun-ichiro Koga, Kaku Nakano, Daiki Funamoto, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Kensuke Egashira

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