Daisuke Morisawa

TL;DR: Increased diastolic filling pressure is associated with a higher rate of LAA thrombus in AF, partly through blood stasis or impaired LAA function, and increased quartile of E/e' was negatively associated with LAA flow velocity and positively with rate of SEC.

TL;DR: Renal iron accumulation seems to be associated with renal interstitial fibrosis in a rat model of CKD, and increased renal gene expression of CD68, tumor necrosis factor-α and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 was suppressed in CKD rats with iron chelation.

TL;DR: Salt supplementation rather than salt restriction evoked favorable diuresis through increasing GFR in patients with ADHF, and the findings support an efficacious novel approach of the treatment of ADHF.

TL;DR: Diagnostic and prognostic significance of vortices and vortex imaging in the heart, their applications in clinical medicine, and how these flow features can be used to assess functional status of the heart are summarized.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of telmisartan and olmesartan in 20 patients with chronic heart failure and metabolic syndrome were compared, and the authors concluded that telisartan was more beneficial than olmes-artan for controlling blood pressure in the early morning, as well as for improving glucose and lipid profiles in patients with hypertension, chronic congestive heart failure, and metabolic disorders.