Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
Vol.23 No.2 2007 CONTENTS

Editorial

Entrance Examination
Kensuke Harada

Feature Articles

Therapeutic Strategy for Asplenia Syndrome Explanatory Note
Toyoki Fukuda, et al. ……86 Full text PDF
Surgical Outcome of Palliative Procedures for Patients with Asplenia Syndrome
Masakuni Ishiyama, et al. ……88 Full text PDF
Usefulness of Three-dimensional Diagnosis with Multi-slice CT Angiography in Pre- and Post-operative Management of Patients with Asplenia
Isao Shiraishi, et al. ……94 Full text PDF
Pre-operative Evaluation of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection with Right Atrial Isomerism by Multidetector-row CT under General Anesthesia
Minori Tateishi, et al. ……102 Full text PDF

Review

Briefing on Criteria for Metabolic Syndrome in Japanese Adults
Tadashi Nakamura ……109 Full text PDF
Pathology of Atherothrombosis in Metabolic Syndrome
Katsumi Inoue, et al. ……113 Full text PDF

Original

How MCP-1 A-2518G and CCR2 G190A Polymorphism Interfere withKawasaki Disease
Ryuji Fukazawa, et al. ……120 Full text PDF
Problems in Follow-up for Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Shinya Tsukano, et al. ……131 Full text PDF

Editorial Comments

Basic Research on Kawasaki Disease in the Post-genomic Era
Hiroyuki Yamagishi ……126 Full text PDF