Fumiaki Ikeno

Efficacy and feasibility of helixcision for debulking neointimal hyperplasia for in-stent restenosis.

Coronary vasodilation by noninvasive transcutaneous ultrasound: an in vivo canine study.

Noninvasive transcutaneous ultrasound augments thrombolysis in the left circumflex coronary artery--an in vivo canine study.

Inhibition of delta-protein kinase C protects against reperfusion injury of the ischemic heart in vivo.

Early experience with a novel plaque excision system for the treatment of complex coronary lesions.

Evaluation of high-pressure retrograde coronary venous delivery of FGF-2 protein.

Six- and twelve-month results from first human experience using everolimus-eluting stents with bioabsorbable polymer.

Initial experience with the novel 6 Fr-compatible system for debulking de novo coronary arterial lesions.

Novel percutaneous adventitial drug delivery system for regional vascular treatment.

Cardioprotection by epsilon-protein kinase C activation from ischemia: continuous delivery and antiarrhythmic effect of an epsilon-protein kinase C-activating peptide.

Effect of lumen narrowing within coronary stents on proximal and distal vessel segments following bare metal stent implantation.

The conversion in application of percutaneous coronary intervention following the introduction of drug eluting stents.

Augmentation of tissue perfusion by a novel compression device increases neurologically intact survival in a porcine model of prolonged cardiac arrest.

Acute and long-term outcomes of the novel side access (SLK-View) stent for bifurcation coronary lesions: a multicenter nonrandomized feasibility study.

Long-term histopathologic and IVUS evaluations of a novel coiled sheet stent in porcine carotid arteries.

Drug-eluting stent strut distribution: a comparison between Cypher and Taxus by optical coherence tomography.

Arteriotomy closure device application following percutaneous coronary intervention may prevent bleeding complications in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Endovascular intervention for infrainguinal artery disease requires additional evidence regarding selection of devices.

Comparison of nonuniform rotational distortion between mechanical IVUS and OCT using a phantom model.

Impaired perfusion after myocardial infarction is due to reperfusion-induced deltaPKC-mediated myocardial damage.

Novel stent and delivery systems for the treatment of bifurcation lesions: porcine coronary artery model.

Mechanism of luminal gain with plaque excision in atherosclerotic coronary and peripheral arteries: assessment by histology and intravascular ultrasound.

Comparison of nonuniform strut distribution between two drug-eluting stent platforms.

Novel stent system for accurate placement in aorto-ostial renal artery disease: preclinical study in porcine renal artery model.

In vivo porcine model of reperfused myocardial infarction: in situ double staining to measure precise infarct area/area at risk.

Reporter gene imaging following percutaneous delivery in swine moving toward clinical applications.

Preserved coronary endothelial function by inhibition of delta protein kinase C in a porcine acute myocardial infarction model.

Introducing the first polymer-free leflunomide eluting stent.

The porcine restenosis model using thermal balloon injury: comparison with the model by coronary stenting.

The importance of pre-clinical animal testing in interventional cardiology.

Fractional flow reserve versus angiography for guiding percutaneous coronary intervention.

Development of animal model for calcified chronic total occlusion.

Imaging gene expression in human mesenchymal stem cells: from small to large animals.

Intraoperative fluorescence imaging system for on-site assessment of off-pump coronary artery bypass graft.

In vivo comparison between optical coherence tomography and intravascular ultrasound for detecting small degrees of in-stent neointima after stent implantation.

Tissue sirolimus levels of distal vessel, stented myocardium, and distal myocardium.

The pre-clinical animal model in the translational research of interventional cardiology.

A prospective, multicenter, randomized trial to assess efficacy of pioglitazone on in-stent neointimal suppression in type 2 diabetes: POPPS (Prevention of In-Stent Neointimal Proliferation by Pioglitazone Study).

Intriguing peri-strut low-intensity area detected by optical coherence tomography after coronary stent deployment.

Fractional flow reserve versus angiography for guiding percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease: 2-year follow-up of the FAME (Fractional Flow Reserve Versus Angiography for Multivessel Evaluation) study.

Sustained inhibition of epsilon protein kinase C inhibits vascular restenosis after balloon injury and stenting.

Evaluation of the peri-strut low intensity area following sirolimus- and paclitaxel-eluting stents implantation: Insights from an optical coherence tomography study in humans.

BMP promotes motility and represses growth of smooth muscle cells by activation of tandem Wnt pathways.

The representative porcine model for human cardiovascular disease.

Comparison of drug-eluting versus bare metal stents in cardiac allograft vasculopathy.

Preclinical derivation and imaging of autologously transplanted canine induced pluripotent stem cells.

Dual manganese-enhanced and delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI detects myocardial border zone injury in a pig ischemia-reperfusion model.

Fundamental wire technique and current standard strategy of percutaneous intervention for chronic total occlusion with histopathological insights.