Strategy for Redo Aortic Surgery
Keishu Yasuda
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

The Nishimaru Memorial Lecture: Recent Progress in Cardiovascular Research
Yoshio Yazaki
National Hospital Organization, Tokyo, Japan

Therapeutic Angiogenesis for the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease: Can We Improve the Results? Frank W. Sellke, et al. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Development of the Japanese Version of Walking Impairment Questionnaire (WIQ)
Shunya Ikeda, et al.
Department of Health Policy and Management, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

C-reactive Protein in Prognosis of Chronic Aortic Dissection Keiko Takahashi, et al. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Coronary Heart Disease, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Augmentation Index to the Degree of Arteriolosclerosis and Coronary Artery Disease: Can Augmentation Index Predict the Severity of Coronary Angiographical Morphology?
Takanobu Kawaharada, et al.
Department of Cardiology, Kagoshima Kouseiren Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan

Inhibition of Intimal Hyperplasia by Photodynamic Therapy Using Talaporfin Sodium in the Hypercholesterolemic Rabbit Model
Hiromasa Nakai, et al.
Department of Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Mechanism of FR-167653 against Postoperative Intimal Hyperplasia
Mitsuhiro Yamamura, et al.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan