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    Successful echocardiography-guided medical management of severe early post-implant right ventricular failure in a patient with left ventricular assist device support: a case report

    Post-implant right heart failure (RHF) has been recognized as a crucial prognostic factor in patients receiving left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), and its management has long attracted attention from car...

    Shingo Kunioka, Osamu Seguchi, Tasuku Hada in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (2023)

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    A unique cuff-sewing method to implant heartmate3 LVAD for arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, facilitated by 3D-printing heart model

    Implantation of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) for arrhythmogenic right ventricular (RV) cardiomyopathy is challenging associated with small LV cavity, laterally dislocated LV apex, thin and fragile RV ...

    Naoki Tadokoro, Kohei Tonai, Satoshi Kainuma in Journal of Artificial Organs (2023)

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    Bridge from central extracorporeal life support is a risk factor of cerebrovascular accidents after durable left ventricular assist device implantation

    A bridging strategy from extracorporeal life support (ECLS) is effective in salvage and a bridge to recovery or to a durable left ventricular assist device (LVAD) for acute refractory heart failure. However, t...

    Kohei Tonai, Satsuki Fukushima, Naoki Tadokoro in Journal of Artificial Organs (2022)

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    Maxacalcitol (22-Oxacalcitriol (OCT)) Retards Progression of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy with Renal Dysfunction Through Inhibition of Calcineurin-NFAT Activity

    Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is a cardiovascular complication highly prevalent in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Previous studies analyzing 1α-hydroxylase or vitamin D receptor (Vdr) knockout m...

    Kazunori Inoue, Isao Matsui, Takayuki Hamano in Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy (2021)

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    A case of tacrolimus-induced reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome after heart transplantation

    Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) after heart transplantation is a rare, but serious complication, because of a high risk for permanent neurological deficits or allograft rejection. A 48-yea...

    Shusaku Maeda, Shunsuke Saito, Koichi Toda in General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2020)

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    Diagnosis, medical treatment, and stepwise mechanical circulatory support for fulminat myocarditis

    Fulminant myocarditis is one of the most challenging diseases. We sought to examine the outcomes of our multidisciplinary treatment strategy for fulminant myocarditis. A retrospective review of consecutive 30 ...

    Shunsuke Saito, Koichi Toda, Shigeru Miyagawa in Journal of Artificial Organs (2018)

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    Electrical Stability (Read and Write Operations)

    In SRAM, read and write are fundamental operations. To ensure the correct operations, the stability analysis is indispensable. In this chapter, electrical stability analysis is explained. In Sect. 3.1, the SRA...

    Masanao Yamaoka, Yasumasa Tsukamoto in Low Power and Reliable SRAM Memory Cell an… (2011)

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    Silencing factors participate in DNA repair and recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    DNA double-strand breaks are repaired by homologous recombination or DNA end-joining, but the latter process often causes illegitimate recombination and chromosome rearrangements. One of the factors involved i...

    Yasumasa Tsukamoto, Jun-ichi Kato, Hideo Ikeda in Nature (1997)