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Open AccessSPON1 is an independent prognostic biomarker for ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer has the worst outcome among gynecological malignancies; therefore, biomarkers that could contribute to the early diagnosis and/or prognosis prediction are urgently required. In the present study...
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Isolated posterior mitral valve leaflet cleft with mitral regurgitation
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Cleft posterior mitral leaflet with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
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Successful percutaneous coronary intervention for right coronary artery chronic total occlusion after Cabrol procedure and the following coronary artery bypass grafting
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Coexistence of left ventricular hypertrophy and noncompaction: a case report
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Aging Effects on Liquefaction Resistance and Shear Wave Velocity in Reconstituted Sand
In this paper two series of undrained cyclic triaxial tests with measuring shear wave velocity were performed in order to quantitatively evaluate aging effects on liquefaction resistance. In the first series, ...
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Current Status of Uterine Leiomyosarcoma in the Tohoku Region: Results of the Tohoku Translational Center Development Network Survey
To prepare for a future clinical trial for improving the long-term prognosis of patients with uterine leiomyosarcoma (ULMS), we conducted a multi-institutional survey in the Tohoku region of Japan.
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Resolution of mid-ventricular thrombus in a patient with heart failure and high hematocrit
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Calcified left ventricular noncompaction with complete atrioventricular block
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Resonant cardiac chamber with diastolic thrill
A 70-year-old man with a diastolic Levine V/VI musical murmur came to our department. Doppler color-flow imaging showed eccentric severe aortic regurgitation. M-mode echocardiography demonstrated fluttering of...
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Paradoxical increase in E/e′ ratio after treatment of heart failure in two patients with preserved ejection fraction
We report an increase in E/e′ ratio after treatment of heart failure (HF) in two patients. In case 1, the E/e′ ratio increased from 15 to 18 after treatment of HF. In case 2, the E/e′ ratio also increased from 24...
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Open AccessA case of postpartum spontaneous coronary artery dissection
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is rare and usually affects younger women in the peripartum period. Here, we report an interesting case of a 34-year-old woman with spontaneous coronary artery dissection...
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Access site-related complications after transradial catheterization can be reduced with smaller sheath size and statins
The aim of this study was to investigate the risk factors for access site-related complications after transradial coronary angiography (CAG) or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Transradial PCI has bee...
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Initial experience with X-ray ct based attenuation correction in myocardial perfusion spect imaging using a combined spect/ct system
Objective: Attenuation artifacts adversely affect the diagnostic accuracy of myocardial perfusion imaging. We assessed the clinical usefulness of X-ray CT based attenuation correction (AC) in patients undergoing ...
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GSH depletion enhances adenoviral bax-induced apoptosis in lung cancer cells
The utility of dominant acting proapoptotic molecules to induce cell death in cancer cells is being evaluated in preclinical studies and clinical trials. We recently developed a binary adenoviral expression sy...
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TRAIL (APO-2L) induces apoptosis in human prostate cancer cells that is inhibitable by Bcl-2
To determine if TRAIL-induced apoptosis in human prostate tumor cells was suppressed by bcl-2, we compared the levels of apoptosis induced by recombinant human TRAIL in pairs of isogenic cell lines that do or ...
