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    Impact of insulin resistance on subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in normal weight and overweight/obese japanese subjects in a general community

    Insulin resistance carries increased risk of heart failure, although the pathophysiological mechanisms remain unclear. LV global longitudinal strain (LVGLS) assessed by speckle-tracking echocardiography has em...

    Kazutoshi Hirose, Koki Nakanishi, Masao Daimon, Naoko Sawada in Cardiovascular Diabetology (2021)

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    Multiple calcified amorphous tumors in a patient with end-stage renal disease

    Naoko Sawada, Tomoko Nakao, Masao Daimon, Kan Nawata in Journal of Echocardiography (2020)

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    Brachial artery diameter has a predictive value in the improvement of flow-mediated dilation after aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis

    Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common valvular disease and aortic valve replacement (AVR) is one of its most effective interventions. AS affects not only the left ventricle, but also vascular function beyond...

    Munenori Takata, Eisuke Amiya, Masafumi Watanabe, Atsuko Ozeki in Heart and Vessels (2015)

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    Mitral valve thickening in Cogan’s syndrome

    Katsuhiro Koyama, Masao Daimon, Hiroaki Semba, Jack H. Wang in Journal of Echocardiography (2014)

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    Impairment of flow-mediated dilation correlates with aortic dilation in patients with Marfan syndrome

    Marfan syndrome is an inherited disorder characterized by genetic abnormality of microfibrillar connective tissue proteins. Endothelial dysfunction is thought to cause aortic dilation in subjects with a bicusp...

    Munenori Takata, Eisuke Amiya, Masafumi Watanabe, Kazuko Omori in Heart and Vessels (2014)

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    Diurnal body temperature rise is reduced in diabetes with autonomic neuropathy

    We conducted a retrospective study of 60 patients with ischemic heart disease (31 with diabetes and 29 without diabetes) to investigate the impact of diabetes on diurnal body temperature patterns. We found tha...

    Eisuke Amiya, Masafumi Watanabe, Munenori Takata in Clinical Autonomic Research (2014)