Background: Recent studies suggested that perivascular components, such as perivascular
adipose tissue (PVAT) and adventitial vasa vasorum (VV), play an important role as a source …

Recent clinical trials have highlighted that percutaneous coronary intervention in patients
with stable angina provides limited additional benefits on top of optimal medical therapy …

According to the current paradigm, chronic vascular inflammation plays a central role in the
pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. The plaque progression is typically completed with rupture …

Coronary artery spasm plays important roles in the pathogenesis of a wide range of
ischemic heart disease. Recent studies have demonstrated that coronary spasm is …

Background: The importance of adventitial inflammation has been implicated for the
pathogenesis of coronary artery disease. However, the roles of adventitial changes in drug …

Background Myocardial bridge (MB) is a myocardial bundle through which coronary
segment tunnels and could compress coronary arteries causing myocardial ischemia …

Background: Recent studies have suggested that coronary perivascular adipose tissue
(PVAT) impairs coronary vasomotion, so we examined whether PVAT is increased at the …

Introduction The vasa vasorum interna were described during the last decade as a special
kind of vessels originating directly from the lumen of the paternal artery and participating in …

ABSTRACT Introduction Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an intravascular imaging
providing high-resolution images of morphological features of arterial wall. Nowadays, OCT …

Abstract Background Patients with Kawasaki disease (KD) prone to develop coronary artery
aneurysm (CAA) with unknown etiology. We aimed to disclose the relationship between …