著者

Hiroyuki Tsutsui Mitsuaki Isobe Hiroshi Ito Hiroshi Ito Ken Okumura Minoru Ono Masafumi Kitakaze Koichiro Kinugawa Yasuki Kihara Yoichi Goto Issei Komuro Yoshikatsu Saiki Yoshihiko Saito Yasushi Sakata Naoki Sato Yoshiki Sawa Akira Shiose Wataru Shimizu Hiroaki Shimokawa Yoshihiko Seino Koichi Node Taiki Higo Atsushi Hirayama Miyuki Makaya Tohru Masuyama Toyoaki Murohara Shin-ichi Momomura Masafumi Yano Kenji Yamazaki Kazuhiro Yamamoto Tsutomu Yoshikawa Michihiro Yoshimura Masatoshi Akiyama Toshihisa Anzai Shiro Ishihara Takayuki Inomata Teruhiko Imamura Yu-ki Iwasaki Tomohito Ohtani Katsuya Onishi Takatoshi Kasai Mahoto Kato Makoto Kawai Yoshiharu Kinugasa Shintaro Kinugawa Toru Kuratani Shigeki Kobayashi Yasuhiko Sakata Atsushi Tanaka Koichi Toda Takashi Noda Kotaro Nochioka Masaru Hatano Takayuki Hidaka Takeo Fujino Shigeru Makita Osamu Yamaguchi Uichi Ikeda Takeshi Kimura Shun Kohsaka Masami Kosuge Masakazu Yamagishi Akira Yamashina on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society and the Japanese Heart Failure Society Joint Working Group

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.83, no.10, pp.2084-2184, 2019-09-25 (Released:2019-09-25)

参考文献数

608

被引用文献数

435

著者

Tomomi Ide Hidetaka Kaku Shouji Matsushima Takeshi Tohyama Nobuyuki Enzan Kouta Funakoshi Yoko Sumita Michikazu Nakai Kunihiro Nishimura Yoshihiro Miyamoto Miyuki Tsuchihashi-Makaya Masaru Hatano Issei Komuro Hiroyuki Tsutsui the JROADHF Investigators

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.CJ-20-0947, (Released:2021-04-15)

参考文献数

35

被引用文献数

56

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Background:With aging population, the prevalence and incidence of heart failure (HF) have been increasing worldwide. However, the characteristics and outcomes of patients with HF in an era of aging are not well established in Japan.Methods and Results:The Japanese Registry Of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (JROADHF), a retrospective, multicenter, nationwide registry, was designed to study the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized with HF throughout Japan in 2013. One-hundred and twenty-eight hospitals were selected by cluster random sampling and 13,238 hospitalized patients with HF were identified by medical record review. Demographics, medical history, severity, treatment, and in-hospital and long-term outcome data were collected from the Diagnostic Procedure Combination and medical charts. Data were analyzed using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. The mean age of registered patients was 78.0±12.5 years and 52.8% were male. Elderly patients (age >75 years) accounted for 68.9%, and HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) accounted for 45.1%. Median length of hospital stay was 18 days and in-hospital mortality was 7.7%. The median follow-up period was 4.3 years, and the incidence rates for cardiovascular death and rehospitalization for HF were 7.1 and 21.1 per 100 person-years, respectively.Conclusions:A contemporary nationwide registry demonstrated that hospitalized HF patients were very elderly, HFpEF was common, and their prognosis was still poor in Japan.

著者

Minoru Ono Osamu Yamaguchi Tomohito Ohtani Koichiro Kinugawa Yoshikatsu Saiki Yoshiki Sawa Akira Shiose Hiroyuki Tsutsui Norihide Fukushima Goro Matsumiya Masanobu Yanase Kenji Yamazaki Kazuhiro Yamamoto Masatoshi Akiyama Teruhiko Imamura Kiyotaka Iwasaki Miyoko Endo Yoshihiko Ohnishi Takahiro Okumura Koichi Kashiwa Osamu Kinoshita Kaori Kubota Osamu Seguchi Koichi Toda Hiroshi Nishioka Tomohiro Nishinaka Takashi Nishimura Toru Hashimoto Masaru Hatano Haruhiko Higashi Taiki Higo Takeo Fujino Yumiko Hori Toru Miyoshi Motoharu Yamanaka Takayuki Ohno Takeshi Kimura Shunei Kyo Yasushi Sakata Takeshi Nakatani on behalf of the JCS/JSCVS/JATS/JSVS Joint Working Group

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.CJ-21-0880, (Released:2022-04-05)

参考文献数

288

被引用文献数

10

著者

Yudai Tamura Yuichi Tamura Yu Taniguchi Ichizo Tsujino Takumi Inami Hiromi Matsubara Ayako Shigeta Yoichi Sugiyama Shiro Adachi Kohtaro Abe Yuichi Baba Masaru Hatano Satoshi Ikeda Kenya Kusunose Koichiro Sugimura Soichiro Usui Yasuchika Takeishi Kaoru Dohi Saki Hasegawa-Tamba Koshin Horimoto Noriko Kikuchi Hiraku Kumamaru Koichiro Tatsumi on behalf of the Japan Pulmonary Hypertension Registry Network

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Reports (ISSN:24340790)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.CR-22-0098, (Released:2022-10-08)

参考文献数

21

被引用文献数

3

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Background: Portopulmonary hypertension (PoPH) is one of the major underlying causes of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). However, PoPH, especially treatment strategies, has been poorly studied. Therefore, this study evaluated current treatments for PoPH, their efficacy, and clinical outcomes of patients with PoPH.Methods and Results: Clinical data were collected for patients with PoPH who were enrolled in the Japan Pulmonary Hypertension Registry between 2008 and 2021. Hemodynamic changes, functional class, and clinical outcomes were compared between patients with PoPH treated with monotherapy and those treated with combination therapies. Clinical data were analyzed for 62 patients with PoPH, including 25 treatment-naïve patients, from 21 centers in Japan. In more than half the patients, PAH-specific therapy improved the New York Heart Association functional class by at least one class. The 3- and 5-year survival rates of these patients were 88.5% (95% confidence interval [CI] 76.0–94.7) and 80.2% (95% CI 64.8–89.3), respectively. Forty-one (66.1%) patients received combination therapy. Compared with patients who had received monotherapy, the mean pulmonary arterial pressure, pulmonary vascular resistance, and cardiac index were significantly improved in patients who had undergone combination therapies.Conclusions: Combination therapy was commonly used in patients with PoPH with a favorable prognosis. Combination therapies resulted in significant hemodynamic improvement without an increased risk of side effects.

著者

Teruhiko Imamura Koichiro Kinugawa Taro Shiga Naoko Kato Miyoko Endo Toshiro Inaba Hisataka Maki Masaru Hatano Atsushi Yao Yasunobu Hirata Takashi Nishimura Shunei Kyo Minoru Ono Ryozo Nagai

出版者

一般社団法人 インターナショナル・ハート・ジャーナル刊行会

雑誌

International Heart Journal (ISSN:13492365)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.53, no.6, pp.391-393, 2012 (Released:2012-12-18)

参考文献数

16

被引用文献数

7 9

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Hypervolemic hyponatremia is often complicated with advanced heart failure together with increased excretion of sodium by diuretics. Tolvaptan, an oral vasopressin-2-receptor antagonist, has been previously reported to improve congestion and correct hyponatremia through increased excretion of free water. However, there is little evidence concerning the administration of tolvaptan in patients with stage D heart failure. We experienced 2 patients with stage D heart failure who received 3.75 mg/day of tolvaptan to correct hyponatremia before ventricular assist device implantation. It may be useful, even for patients with stage D heart failure, to administer a low dose of tolvaptan to treat hyponatremia before ventricular assist device implantation to avoid a drastic alteration in serum sodium concentration perioperatively.

著者

Teruhiko Imamura Koichiro Kinugawa Masaru Hatano Takeo Fujino Toshiro Inaba Hisataka Maki Osamu Kinoshita Kan Nawata Shunei Kyo Minoru Ono Issei Komuro

出版者

日本循環器学会

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.78, no.9, pp.2259-2267, 2014-08-25 (Released:2014-08-25)

参考文献数

28

被引用文献数

17 48

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Background:Depressed hemodynamics stimulates arginine vasopressin (AVP) release, but the relationship between plasma AVP levels (P-AVP) and cardiac parameters, especially in patients with stage D heart failure (HF) receiving guideline-directed medical therapy, has not examined.Methods and Results:Data including P-AVP were obtained from 162 in-hospital patients with stage D HF and from 80 patients receiving ventricular assist device (VAD, n=46) or heart transplantation (HTx, n=34) at 3 months after surgery. In the HF group, considerably high P-AVP (5.9±6.1 pg/ml) negatively correlated with serum sodium concentration (S-Na, 135.3±5.8 mEq/L, r=–0.548 [P<0.01]) and cardiac index (CI, 2.2±0.5 L·min–1·m–2, r=–0.458 [P<0.01]). After VAD/HTx treatment, improvement in the CI (2.7±0.5 L·min–1·m–2[P<0.01] vs. HF) was accompanied by normalization of serum sodium concentration (S-Na; 138.2±2.0 mEq/L [P<0.01] vs. HF) and suppressed release of AVP (1.7±3.4 pg/ml [P<0.01] vs. HF). P-AVP positively correlated with only S-Na (r=0.454 [P<0.01]), whereas no correlation was observed with CI after VAD/HTx treatment. P-AVP ≥5.3 pg/ml well predicted poor 2-year survival in HF group (60% [P<0.01] vs. 90%).Conclusions:Low cardiac output stimulates AVP release via a non-osmotic process that results in hyponatremia and poor prognosis in patients with stage D HF. After sufficient recovery of cardiac output by cardiac replacement therapy, AVP release is suppressed and is mainly regulated by serum osmolality. (Circ J 2014; 78: 2259–2267)

著者

Teruhiko Imamura Koichiro Kinugawa Naoko Kato Hironori Muraoka Takeo Fujino Toshiro Inaba Hisataka Maki Osamu Kinoshita Masaru Hatano Shunei Kyo Minoru Ono

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.78, no.3, pp.625-633, 2014 (Released:2014-02-25)

参考文献数

34

被引用文献数

56 57

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Background: The continuous flow (CF) left ventricular assist device (LVAD) has replaced the pulsatile flow (PF) LVAD because of its advantages of better patient survival and higher quality of life. However, “late-onset right ventricular failure (RVF)” after CF LVAD implantation has emerged as an increasing concern, but little is known about the mechanism. Methods and Results: We retrospectively analyzed the 3-month hemodynamic and echocardiographic data from 38 consecutive patients who had received CF LVADs, and from 22 patients who had received PF LVADs. Late-onset RVF was defined as persistent right ventricular stroke work index (RVSWI) <4.0g/m2 at any rotation speed and after saline infusion test at 5 weeks after implantation of CF LVAD. Patients with late-onset RVF had significantly impaired exercise tolerance indicated by shorter 6-min walking distance and lower peak VO2, and worsened tricuspid regurgitation, together with enlargement of the RV under CF LVAD treatment (all P<0.05). Univariable analyses demonstrated that preoperative smaller LV diastolic diameter (LVDd) was the risk factor for late-onset RVF with a cutoff value of 64mm calculated by ROC analysis (area under curve, 0.925). In contrast, there was no correlation between preoperative LVDd and postoperative RVSWI in the PF LVAD group, though their preoperative background was worse than that of the CF group. Conclusions: In the setting of preoperative small LVDd, CF LVAD may cause late-onset RVF by leftward shift of the interventricular septum.  (Circ J 2014; 78: 625–633)

著者

Teruhiko Imamura Koichiro Kinugawa Shun Minatsuki Hironori Muraoka Naoko Kato Toshiro Inaba Hisataka Maki Taro Shiga Masaru Hatano Atsushi Yao Shunei Kyo Issei Komuro

出版者

The Japanese Circulation Society

雑誌

Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.77, no.5, pp.1208-1213, 2013 (Released:2013-04-25)

参考文献数

29

被引用文献数

39 41

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Background: Urine osmolality (U-OSM) is valuable to predict response to tolvaptan (TLV) in decompensated heart failure patients, but measurement of U-OSM is not always available on site. Methods and Results: Data were collected from 66 hospitalized patients with decompensated heart failure who had received TLV at 3.75–15mg/day. U-OSM, which was estimated using the following formula: 1.07×{2×[(urine sodium (mEq/L)]+[urine urea nitrogen (mg/dl)]/2.8+[urine creatinine (mg/dl)]×2/3}+16, was well correlated with the actual measurement (r=0.938, P<0.001). Criteria consisting of C1 (estimated baseline U-OSM >358mOsm/L) and C2 (%decrease in estimated U-OSM >24% at 4–6h after the first TLV dose) significantly discriminated responders from non-responders (P<0.05). Conclusions: Response to TLV can be predicted using U-OSM, which can be estimated using urine urea nitrogen, sodium, and creatinine concentration data.  (Circ J 2013; 77: 1208–1213)

著者

Naoko Kato Koichiro Kinugawa Etsuko Nakayama Takako Tsuji Yumiko Kumagai Teruhiko Imamura Hisataka Maki Taro Shiga Masaru Hatano Atsushi Yao Chikako Miura Issei Komuro Ryozo Nagai

出版者

International Heart Journal Association

雑誌

International Heart Journal (ISSN:13492365)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.54, no.6, pp.382-389, 2013 (Released:2013-12-03)

参考文献数

36

被引用文献数

26 45

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Self-care is a cornerstone for the successful management of heart failure (HF). The purpose of this study was to examine the impacts of HF self-care on prognosis in Japanese patients with HF. A total of 283 HF outpatients (age 64 ± 14, 70% male, 52% HFrEF) were enrolled. We asked patients to answer about their adhevence to 5 self-care behaviors (medication, eating a low-sodium diet, regular exercise, daily weight check, and treatment seeking behavior). On the basis of the results, we classified patients into a good self-care group and a poor self-care group. The primary outcome was HF hospitalization and/or cardiac death. In total, 65% of patients were classifi ed into the poor self-care group. During a median follow-up of 2 years, cardiac events occurred more frequently in the poor self-care group (22% versus 9.6%, P = 0.013). Poor self-care was an independent risk factor for cardiac events in Cox regression analysis adjusted for clinical parameters (hazard ratio = 2.86, P = 0.005). Poor self-care was also associated with an increased number of HF hospitalizations as well as an extended length of hospital stay for HF. Poor knowledge about HF was an independent determinant for poor self-care in multivariate logistic regression analysis (odds ratio = 0.92, P = 0.019). Insufficient self-care is an independent risk factor for cardiac events in Japanese patients with HF.

著者

Shun Minatsuki Ichiro Miura Atsushi Yao Hiroyuki Abe Hironori Muraoka Mariko Tanaka Teruhiko Imamura Toshiro Inaba Hisataka Maki Masaru Hatano Koichiro Kinugawa Takashi Yao Masashi Fukayama Ryozo Nagai Issei Komuro

出版者

一般社団法人 インターナショナル・ハート・ジャーナル刊行会

雑誌

International Heart Journal (ISSN:13492365)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.14-220, (Released:2015-02-23)

被引用文献数

2 40

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Pulmonary hypertension (PH) induced by pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (PTTM) can be fatal because its rapid progression confounds diagnosis, and it is difficult to control with therapy. Here we describe a woman with symptomatic PTTM-PH accompanying gastric cancer that was suspected from perfusion scintigraphy. PTTM-PH was diagnosed by gastroesophageal endoscopy and lung biopsy after partial control of PH using the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) receptor (PDGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor, imatinib. Treatment with sildenafil and ambrisentan further decreased PH, and she underwent total gastrectomy followed by adjuvant TS-1 chemotherapy. PH did not recur before her death from metastasis. Postmortem histopathology showed recanalized pulmonary arteries where the embolized cancer masses disappeared. PDGF-A, -B, and PDGFR-α, β expression was detected in cancer cells and proliferating pulmonary vascular endothelial cells. Thus, PTTM-PH was successfully controlled using a combination of imatinib, drugs to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension, and cancer management.