In 2019, the Japanese Circulation Society published 2 guidelines in the field of coronary
artery disease (CAD):(1) a guideline for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) that integrated …

Echocardiography has a central role in the diagnosis and management of cardiovascular
disease. Precise and reliable echocardiographic assessment is required for clinical decision …

Pacemaker treatment for bradyarrhythmia was first approved for national health insurance
coverage in Japan in 1974, and its use rapidly became widespread thereafter …

Eight years have passed since the publication of the only guideline on cardiac rehabilitation
(CR) in Japan,“Guidelines for rehabilitation in patients with cardiovascular disease (JCS …

The Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) published the “Guidelines for Pharmacological
Treatment of Arrhythmia” in 2004, and a revised edition was published in 2009. 1 Both …

Background Adoption of the results of large-scale randomized controlled trials in
percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) may differ internationally, yet few studies have …

In 2008, the Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of patients with vasospastic angina
(coronary spastic angina) 1 were developed by the Japanese Circulation Society, and the …

Background: Recently, the Academic Research Consortium for High Bleeding Risk (ARC-
HBR) has been proposed to standardize the definition of HBR, which was arbitrarily defined …

The Japanese Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (J-PCI) registry is endorsed by the
Japanese Association of Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics (CVIT) and is …

Over the last decades, antiplatelet agents, mainly aspirin and P2Y12 receptor antagonists,
have significantly reduced morbidity and mortality associated with arterial thrombosis. Their …