著者
Kazuhiko Tanabe Akiko Yamamoto Noriyuki Suzuki Naohiko Osada Yasuhiro Yokoyama Hisanori Samejima Atsushi Seki Misa Oya Taizo Murabayashi Masaru Nakayama Masanobu Yamamoto Kazuto Omiya Haruki Itoh Masahiro Murayama
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL (ISSN:00471828)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.62, no.5, pp.341-346, 1998 (Released:2001-11-25)
参考文献数
20
被引用文献数
8 10

We have previously reported that chronic sleep deprivation causes a deficiency of intracellular magnesium (Mg) and decreased exercise tolerance. The aim of this study was to clarify whether oral administration of Mg could be effective in restoring the exercise tolerance that is decreased by chronic sleep deprivation. A bicycle ergometer cardiopulmonary exercise test was performed by 16 healthy volunteers (mean age 21.9 years). They were divided into 2 groups: 8 received doses of 100 mg of Mg orally per day for 1 month (Mg group) and the remaining 8 received no Mg and served as the control group. The study conditions were designed as follows: (1) the usual state (good sleep); and (2) the sleep-deprived state (sleeping time up to 60% Iess than the usual state for 1 month). The ratio of intracellular Mg content of the sleep-deprived state to the usual sleep state was significantly higher in the Mg group (p <0.05) than the untreated control group. There was no difference between the sleep-deprived state and the usual state with regard to anaerobic threshold and peak oxygen uptake in the Mg group, whereas both of these decreased in the sleep-deprived state in the control group. These results indicate that decreased exercise tolerance observed in the sleep-deprived state could be improved by oral Mg administration. (Jpn Circ J 1998; 62: 341-346)
著者
Makoto Kodama Hirotaka Oda Masaaki Okabe Yoshifusa Aizawa Tohru Izumi
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL (ISSN:00471828)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.65, no.11, pp.961-964, 2001 (Released:2001-10-25)
参考文献数
16
被引用文献数
21 26

The frequency of myocarditis and the prognosis for patients remains uncertain and, moreover, the clinical classification of myocarditis is controversial. From 1985 to 2000, 71 adult patients with clinically suspected myocarditis were admitted to 11 cardiovascular centers. Of these, 48 cases had histology proven myocarditis: 41 cases of lymphocytic myocarditis, 6 of giant cell myocarditis and 1 of eosinophilic myocarditis. Myocarditis was classified as acute (30 cases) or chronic (18 cases) according to the onset of the disease, and acute myocarditis was further categorized into common or fulminant type depending on whether or not patients required mechanical circulatory support in the management of heart failure (9 and 21 cases, respectively). Chronic myocarditis was divided into 3 subgroups: a persistent type lasting over 3 months after distinct onset (3 cases), a recurrent type (2 cases) and a latent form (13 cases). The early mortality of these 5 subtypes of myocarditis were acute common 22%, acute fluminant 43%, chronic persistent 33%, chronic recurrent 50%, and chronic latent 38%. The overall early mortality of all patients with myocarditis was 38% in spite of aggressive treatment during hospitalization. On the other hand, the long-term prognosis of patients with myocarditis was favorable; only 4 cases, who survived the active phase, died in the late phase: 1 had fulminant myocarditis and the other 3 had the chronic latent form. Thus, the early mortality of patients with myocarditis was very high regardless of the subtype, but if patients can survive the active phase, they have a favorable prognosis except with the chronic latent form. (Jpn Circ J 2001; 65: 961 - 964)
著者
Yoshinobu Nagasawa Sadayoshi Komori Mitsuko Sato Yoshiko Tsuboi Ken Umetani Yuichiro Watanabe Kohji Tamura
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL (ISSN:00471828)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.65, no.7, pp.587-592, 2001 (Released:2001-06-25)
参考文献数
17
被引用文献数
54 59

Hot bathing has been associated with sudden death and so the present study investigated its effects on autonomic activity and hemodynamics in the elderly patient and the healthy young by analyzing heart rate variability (HRV). Subjects were 9 elderly men (mean age, 75 years) and 9 young men (mean age, 27 years), who were immersed up to shoulder level while in a sitting position for 10 min with the bath temperature at 40°C. Blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) were monitored. BP in the young decreased during bathing (p<0.01), whereas in the elderly BP had a maximum value just at the start of immersion (p<0.05) with a slight decline at 4 min after the start of immersion. Although HR in the young increased (p<0.01), in the elderly there was an abrupt increase in HR just at the start of immersion (p<0.05), followed by a decrease in HR. With regard to HRV, the high-frequency (HF) component in the young men was suppressed during immersion (p<0.01), but was unaffected in the elderly. The LF (low frequency)/HF ratio in the elderly decreased at 4 min (p<0.05). In conclusion, hypotensive syncope may cause sudden death by drowning during hot bathing, and is a consequence of the decrease in sympathetic tone that develops approximately 4 min after immersion. (Jpn Circ J 2001; 65: 587 - 592)
著者
Mafumi Owa Kazunori Aizawa Nobuyuki Urasawa Hiroyuki Ichinose Kazuya Yamamoto Koji Karasawa Mitsuru Kagoshima Jun Koyama Shu-ichi Ikeda
出版者
日本循環器学会
雑誌
JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL (ISSN:00471828)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.65, no.4, pp.349-352, 2001 (Released:2001-06-01)
参考文献数
13
被引用文献数
66 105

Four patients had the clinical features of `ampulla cardiomyopathy', consisting of acute-onset transient left ventricular apical akinesis with basal normokinesis, normal coronary angiogram, ST-segment elevation and subsequent giant T wave inversion, which mimicked acute coronary syndrome, the onset of which occurred shortly after extreme mental stress. Myocardial necrosis was minimal, although 2 patients showed elevated serum catecholamine levels in the acute phase. Each patient underwent serial cardiac radionuclide single-photon emission computed tomography of myocardial functional sympathetic innervation, fatty acid metabolism and perfusion using I-123-metaiodobenzyl-guanidine (MIBG), I-123-β-metyl-iodophenyl pentadecanoic acid (BMIPP) and thallium-201 (201Tl), respectively. In the acute phase, MIBG and BMIPP imaging showed an uptake defect in the apical region, whereas 201Tl uptake was mildly decreased. When assessed semi-quantitatively, the MIBG images had higher defect scores from the acute phase throughout the year of observation compared with BMIPP, and 201Tl. These observations suggest that the primary cause of ampulla cardiomyopathy is related to a disturbance of the cardiac sympathetic innervation. (Jpn Circ J 2001; 65: 349 - 352)
著者
YUKIFLTMI NAKATA KISAKU KAMIYA
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL (ISSN:00471828)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.34, no.11, pp.1029-1034, 1970-12-31 (Released:2008-04-14)
参考文献数
22
被引用文献数
9 12

It has been reported that disturbance of the vasa vasorum changes permeability, flow of tissue fluid, and nutrition in the vascular wall and becomes a cause of fat deposition in these regions. In this experiment, relation between fat deposition and disturbance of the vasa vasorum was studied using new method obstructing the vasa vasorum alone.
著者
JUNICHI AZUMA AKIHIKO SAWAMURA NOBUHISA AWATA
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL (ISSN:00471828)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.56, no.1, pp.95-99, 1992-01-20 (Released:2008-04-14)
参考文献数
30
被引用文献数
95 116

We compared the effect of oral administration of taurine (3g/day) and coenzyme Q10 (CoQ<>) (30 mg/day) in 17 patients with congestive heart failure secondary to ischemic or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, whose ejection fraction assessed by echocardiography was less than 50%. The changes in echo-cardiographic parameters produced by 6 weeks of treatment were evaluated in a double-blind fashion. In the taurine-treated group significant treatment effect was observed on systolic left ventricular function after 6 weeks. Such an effect was not observed in the CoQ10-treated group.
著者
Miyuki Tsuchihashi Hiroyuki Tsutsui Kazunori Kodama Fumiyoshi Kasagi Akira Takeshita
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL (ISSN:00471828)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.64, no.12, pp.953-959, 2000 (Released:2001-05-31)
参考文献数
36
被引用文献数
80 80

The clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) have been described by a number of previous studies, but very little information is available on this issue in Japan. This study aimed to delineate the clinical characteristics and prognosis of Japanese patients hospitalized with CHF. Medical records were reviewed for 230 consecutive patients at 5 teaching hospitals in Fukuoka, Japan from January to December 1997 and the survival and hospital readmission were followed through December 1999 (mean follow-up, 2.4 years). The study population had a high mean age, contained a larger population of women especially in the older ages, and had a higher incidence of overt HF (48%) despite a relatively normal ejection fraction on echocardiography. Major causes of CHF were ischemic, valvular, and hypertensive heart diseases. The 1-year mortality rate was as low as 8.3% whereas rates of hospital readmission because of an exacerbation of CHF were as high as 40% during the follow-up period. Patients hospitalized with CHF in routine clinical practice in Japan have characteristics that differ from those in the population included in community-based studies or large clinical trials.
著者
RYOZO OKADA SACHIO KAWAI HIDEKI KASYUYA
出版者
The Japanese Circulation Society
雑誌
JAPANESE CIRCULATION JOURNAL (ISSN:00471828)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.53, no.1, pp.40-48, 1989-01-20 (Released:2008-04-14)
参考文献数
20
被引用文献数
19 20

Among a total of 634, 440 autopsy cases in "The Annulas of Pathological Autopsy Cases in Japan" from 1958 to 1984, 929 cases with nonspecific myocarditis were registered. The average incidence was 0.15%, fluctuating myocarditis were registered. The average incidence was 0.15%, fluctuating around 3- to 5-year intervals with a remarkable rise observed after 1974. The major complications in cases of myocarditis were pneumonitis, hepatitis or hepatic cirrhosis, pancreatitis, malignancies, lymphatic or thymic involvements. A clinicopathological study of 36 cases of myocarditis and 27 cases of postmyocarditic cardiomegaly indicated a classification of acute, subacute, healing and chronic or recurrent stages as well as dilatation-hypertrophy-and right ventricle-dominant types. Acute myocarditis was characterized by diffuse inflammatory cell infiltration and showed various types of arrhythmias and shock. Subacute myocarditis showed ventricular dilatation, edematous interstitium and severe congestive heart failure. Chronic myocarditis with dilatation and/or hypertrophy and irregular fibrosis included right ventricular involvement, endomyocardial disease, sick sinus syndrome in selected cases, congestive heart failure in most cases, and showed a male predominancy. Postmyocarditic cardiomegaly was similar to chronic myocarditis but showed more hypertrophy, preexcitation waves and prominent negative T waves in electrocardiography and sudden death.
著者
OKAMOTO KOZO AOKI KYUZO
出版者
社団法人日本循環器学会
雑誌
Japanese circulation journal (ISSN:00471828)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.27, no.3, pp.282-293, 1963-03-20
被引用文献数
61

A male rat with spontaneously high systolic blood pressures of 150 to 175 mmHg persisting for more than one month and a female rat with blood pressures slighty above the average, 130 to 140 mmHg, were selected from among 68 Wistar strain rats in normal condition and mated to obtain F_1 rats. Of these F_1 rats, males and females with hypertension (blood pressure exceeding 150 mmHg) persisting for more than a month (mostly over 2 months) were mated to produce F_2 rats. The procedure was repeated to obtain F_3, F_4, F_5 and F_6 rats totaliag 380 animals. The weights and blood pressures (by the tail-water-plethysmographic method) were measured once weekly biginning at 4 weeks of age, and the results can be summarized as follows : 1. In body weight, the F rats showed little difference from the normal controls. 2. The blood pressures of F rats rose with age and from generation to generation, increasing significantly above those of normotensive controls of the same age after 20 weeks of age among female F_1, after 15 weeks among male F_1 and also male and female F_2, and after 10 weeks among all F_3 to F_6 rats. E. g., the average systolic blood pressure of F_5 at 25 weeks of age was 206+__-18.5 mmHg in the male and 193+__-20.5 mmHg in female rats. The blood pressures of normotensive controls remained at 131 to 136 mmHg in the male and 130 to 135 mmHg in female rats after 10 weeks of age. 3. Many F rats showed spontaneous hypertension. The incidence of the spontaneous occurrence of hypertension increased, and the development of hypertension occurred at younger ages from generation to generation. All of the F_3 to F_6, rats developed spontaneous hypertension within 15 weeks of age. Severe hypertension with blood pressures exceeding 200 mmHg began to observed among F_2. The incidence of such severe hypertension increased with each generation, so that among male animals it inceased from only 9% in F_2 to 35% in F_3, 42% in F_4, and 56% in F_5, and in female animals from 3% in F_2, 16% in F_3, 33% in F_4, and 37% in F_5. The authors have named this Wistar strain of rats with spontaneous occurrence of hypertension as "spontaneously hypertensive rats (Okamoto-Aoki)". 4. The blood pressures of β-line rats from parents with very high blood pressures were significantly higher than among α-line rats from parents with moderately high blood pressures at the same age. 5. There was no difference in the blood pressures of offsprings resulting from inbreeding and those from cross breeding. The male blood pressure averaged about 10.6 mmHg above the female value in spontaneous hypertension, and hypertension developed at lower ages in the male. 6. It is a question for future study whether the spontaneous hypertension induced in rats in this Study is comparable in characteristics with essential hypertension in man.
著者
Shirato Kunio KANAZAWA MASAHARU ISHIKAWA KEN NAKAJIMA TOSHIYUKI TAKISHIMA TAMOTSU
出版者
社団法人日本循環器学会
雑誌
Japanese circulation journal (ISSN:00471828)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.46, no.1, pp.113-123, 1982-01-20
被引用文献数
1

We studied the effect of the pericardium on the end-diastolic pressure-segment length (P-L) relation in volume loading (Experiment I) and in acute ischemia (Experiment II). Experiment I: In 6 open chest dogs, segment length of left and right ventricles were measured using ultrasonic crystals during blood infusion. Drawing end-diastolic pressure (P, on ordinate) against segment length (L, on abscissa), the P-L curve with pericardium positioned upward compared to that without pericardium. The slopes (b) of the exponential curve (P = ae^<bL>) with pericardium were steeper than those without pericardium in both ventricles. The difference between the slopes with and without pericardium was significantly larger in the right ventricle (RV, 0.30 ± 0. 10, mean ± SEM) than in the left ventricle (LV, 0.05 ± 0.02, p < 0.05). These results show that the pericardium inhibits the distensibility of the free wall more in RV than in LV, and enhances a mechanical coupling of both ventricles during volume overload. Experiment II: In 8 open chest dogs, segment lengths of ischemic and non-ischemic regions in LV were measured after left circumflex coronary occlusion. When the segment lengths and LV pressure became stable, a pericardiectomy was performed. After the pericardiectomy, whereas heart rate and LV systolic pressure did not change, end-diastolic segment length in the ischemic region further lengthened (12.0 0.2 to 12.5 0.2 mm, p < 0.01) and that in the non-ischemic region did not change despite the concomitant fall in LV end-diastolic pressure (EDP, 11.9 0.6 to 9.8 0.6 mmHg, p < 0.01). These results suggest that the pericardium alters the LV end-diastolic pressure-volume relation and is one of the factors contributing to an increase in LVEDP during acute ischemia.