Publications by authors named "Yoshiyuki Tomishima"
J Artif Organs
August 2024
Article Synopsis
- Early use of EcMELLA has shown better outcomes, but guidelines for its use are still unclear, especially concerning risks related to access routes and contraindications like left ventricular thrombosis.
- In a case study, a 74-year-old patient with heart failure and left ventricular thrombosis successfully received a single-access EcMELLA treatment after surgery, leading to significant recovery and discharge after 31 days.
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates how high-intensity coronary plaques (HIPs) detected through T1-weighted MRI relate to fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurements in patients with chronic coronary syndrome.
- - Researchers analyzed data from 281 vessels and found that a higher plaque-to-myocardial signal intensity ratio (PMR) in stenotic lesions correlated with lower FFR values, indicating greater myocardial ischemia risk.
- - The presence of HIPs was identified as a significant independent predictor of low FFR, underscoring the impact of plaque characteristics on myocardial ischemia severity, even when accounting for other plaque features.
