Extent of cardiac sympathetic neuronal damage is determined by the area of ischemia in patients with acute coronary syndromes

I Matsunari, U Schricke, FM Bengel, HU Haase… - Circulation, 2000 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Prior studies have demonstrated that acute ischemic injury causes sympathetic
neuronal damage exceeding the area of necrosis. The aim of this study was to test the …

Peripheral sympathetic dysfunction in patients with Parkinson's disease without autonomic failure is heart selective and disease specific

J Taki, K Nakajima, EH Hwang, I Matsunari… - European journal of …, 2000 - Springer
The study was undertaken to investigate by means of iodine-123-labelled metaiodobenzylguanidine
(MIBG) scintigraphy the peripheral sympathetic function in patients with Parkinson’s …

Presence of sympathetically denervated but viable myocardium and its electrophysiologic correlates after early revascularised, acute myocardial infarction

MV Simões, P Barthel, I Matsunari… - European heart …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Aims After acute myocardial infarction (AMI), regional denervation exceeding the scar area
has been described. We sought to define the electrophysiologic correlates of denervated, but …

Brain FDG PET study of normal aging in Japanese: effect of atrophy correction

D Yanase, I Matsunari, K Yajima, W Chen… - European journal of …, 2005 - Springer
Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of atrophy correction on the
results of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) in the context of …

Partial volume effect-corrected FDG PET and grey matter volume loss in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease

M Samuraki, I Matsunari, WP Chen, K Yajima… - European journal of …, 2007 - Springer
Purpose Although 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET is an established imaging technique
to assess brain glucose utilisation, accurate measurement of tracer concentration is …

Iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging and carbon-11 hydroxyephedrine positron emission tomography compared in patients with left ventricular dysfunction

I Matsunari, H Aoki, Y Nomura, N Takeda… - Circulation …, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
Background— Although both 123 I-metaiodobenzylguanidine ( 123 I-MIBG) imaging and 11
C-hydroxyephedrine ( 11 C-HED) positron emission tomography (PET) are used for …

18F-FDG uptake by primary tumor as a predictor of intratumoral lymphatic vessel invasion and lymph node involvement in non-small cell lung cancer: analysis of a …

…, T Ishikawa, T Sakuma, I Matsunari… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2005 - Soc Nuclear Med
Intratumoral lymphatic vessel invasion and lymph node involvement are important factors in
the planning of therapeutic strategies, particularly limited surgical resection in patients with …

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related microbleeds and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease

…, J Komatsu, M Samuraki, I Matsunari… - Journal of …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) commonly accompanies cerebral amyloid
angiopathy (CAA). Objective: We aimed to reveal associations between CAA-related brain …

Comparison of 18F-FDG PET and optimized voxel-based morphometry for detection of Alzheimer's disease: aging effect on diagnostic performance

I Matsunari, M Samuraki, WP Chen… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2007 - Soc Nuclear Med
The aim of this study was to compare optimized voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and 18 F-FDG
PET for discrimination between patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy …

Gender differences in myocardial blood flow dynamics: lipid profile and hemodynamic effects

…, V Seifert-Klauss, F Dayanikli, I Matsunari… - Journal of the American …, 1999 - jacc.org
Objectives The purpose of the study was to compare myocardial blood flow (MBF) in
hyperlipidemic postmenopausal women and age-matched hyperlipidemic men, and to analyze the …