A 53-year-old male with no previous cardiovascular history was transferred from a psychiatric ward for urgent angiography with a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The prior admission was due to a suicide attempt as a result of bipolar affective disease. The patient had been treated with paroxetine but had discontinued the therapy two months before the suicide attempt. As a result of j...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has become a hallmark disorder of American society, especially among children. The Center for Disease Control estimates seven percent of the school-age population has the disorder and numerous studies have shown that the number of children, adolescents and now adults who are treated with medication for the disorder continues to increase. It has be...

Recent studies indicate that in patients with muscular subaortic stenosis at rest, left ventricular outflow tract obstruction is associated with severe systolic anterior motion (SAM) of the anterior mitral leaflet and prolonged SAM-septal contact. We correlated the temporal relationships between echocardiographic and hemodynamic events in 18 patients with muscular subaortic stenosis (gradient o...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the effects of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) on baseline and hyperemic flow in both culprit and nonculprit arteries. BACKGROUND An impaired coronary flow reserve (CFR) after AMI is related to worse outcomes. The individual contribution of resting and hyperemic flow to the reduction of CFR is unknown. Furthermore, it is unclear whether c...

Objective: This study aimed to examine the factors influencing the requirement of a certificate of long-term care using a basic checklist and items listed in the Special Health Checkup. Method: This study included 7,820 individuals living in Uji city, who were selected from among 8,000 elderly individuals who, in 2008, underwent a specific health checkup (hereafter referred to as the 'specific ...

To the Editor, Stress-induced cardiomyopathy (SIC) (also known as ampulla cardiomyopathy, tako-tsubo syndrome, and broken heart syndrome) mimicking an acute myocardial infarction is a unique acute cardiac syndrome that appears under physically or emotionally stressful circumstances. It was first described in Japan and is typically characterized by chest pain, elevated ST-segment on electrocardi...

To the Editor: We read with great interest the article published by Cattaneo et al regarding recurrent episodes of apical-ballooning takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a 66-year-old man. Based on the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease by coronary angiography, mild troponin elevation, and extensive regional wall motion abnormalities with the classic apical-ballooning appearance on echocardi...

This paper presents Wechsler (WISC-R) profiles and changes following the application of an EEG biofeedback treatment regimen for brain-based learning disabilities. EEG biofeedback trained increases in activation (increased amplitude of 14Hz brainwave energy) of the central and sensorimotor cortex's neural activation network resulted in increases in bi-hemispheric skills (complementary verbal-ex...