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  1. Association of ambient particulate matter with heart failure incidence and all-cause readmissions in Tasmania: an observational study

    Article • BMJ Open, May 2018, BMJ

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  2. Authors’ Reply

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, May 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  3. Effect of Gravitational Gradients on Cardiac Filling and Performance

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, December 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  4. Echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac function after cancer chemotherapy

    Article • Journal of Echocardiography, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  5. Association of the Active and Passive Components of Left Atrial Deformation with Left Ventricular Function

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, May 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  6. Relation of Functional Status to Risk of Development of Atrial Fibrillation

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  7. Is Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography a Panacea? Experience Is Still Required

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  8. Incremental Prognostic Value of Ventricular-Arterial Coupling over Ejection Fraction in Patients with Maintenance Hemodialysis

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  9. Normal ranges for LA strains determined!

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  10. Meta-Analysis of Association Between Mediastinal Radiotherapy and Long-Term Heart Failure

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  11. Effect of Experience and Training on the Concordance and Precision of Strain Measurements

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, October 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi, Professor Andre La Gerche

  12. Prediction of cardiovascular outcomes by imaging coronary atherosclerosis

    Article • Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, August 2016, AME Publishing Company

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  13. Prognostic Implications of LV Strain Risk Score in Asymptomatic Patients With Hypertensive Heart Disease

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, August 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  14. Predictive Score for 30-Day Readmission or Death in Heart Failure

    Article • JAMA Cardiology, June 2016, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  15. Rapid progression of nodular calcification documented by intra-coronary imaging devices and histology

    Article • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, April 2016, European Society of Cardiology

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  16. Importance of Calibration Method in Central Blood Pressure for Cardiac Structural Abnormalities

    Article • American Journal of Hypertension, April 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  17. Association of waist circumference with impaired six-minute walk in type 2 diabetes mellitus is independent of cardiac function

    Article • Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  18. Pathophysiological effects of different risk factors for heart failure

    Article • Open Heart, March 2016, BMJ

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  19. Meta-Analysis of Risks for Short-Term Readmission in Patients With Heart Failure

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  20. Mitral A-wave predicts ICD therapy

    Article • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, December 2015, European Society of Cardiology

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  21. Effect of Right Ventricular Pacing on Right Ventricular Mechanics and Tricuspid Regurgitation in Patients With High-Grade Atrioventricular Block and Sinus Rhythm (from the Protection of Left Ventricular Function During Right Ventricular Pacing Study)

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  22. Functional and Anatomic Responses of the Left Atrium to Change in Estimated Left Ventricular Filling Pressure

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  23. Pericardiectomy is Associated with Improvement in Longitudinal Displacement of Left Ventricular Free Wall Due to Increased Counterclockwise Septal-to-Lateral Rotational Displacement

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  24. A Risk Score with Additional Four Independent Factors to Predict the Incidence and Recovery from Metabolic Syndrome: Development and Validation in Large Japanese Cohorts

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2015, PLOS

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  25. Grading diastolic function by echocardiography: hemodynamic validation of existing guidelines

    Article • Cardiovascular Ultrasound, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  26. Intervendor Variability of Two-Dimensional Strain Using Vendor-Specific and Vendor-Independent Software

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  27. Association of Left Ventricular Strain with 30-Day Mortality and Readmission in Patients with Heart Failure

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  28. Improvement in Strain Concordance between Two Major Vendors after the Strain Standardization Initiative

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  29. Roles of Nonclinical and Clinical Data in Prediction of 30-Day Rehospitalization or Death Among Heart Failure Patients

    Article • Journal of Cardiac Failure, May 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  30. Comparison of different interdialytic intervals among hemodialysis patients on their echocardiogram-based cardiovascular parameters

    Article • American Heart Journal, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  31. Those who want to start strain measurement! Tips and Caveats for it!

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  32. Prediction of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus—A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  33. Clinical prediction of incident heart failure risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Article • Open Heart, April 2015, BMJ

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  34. Temporal Changes in Appropriateness of Cardiac Imaging

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  35. RISK OF OVERT HEART FAILURE IN STAGE A AND B HEART FAILURE: ASSOCIATION WITH SYMPTOMS, PHYSIOLOGY AND EXPECTED OUTCOME

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  36. Dyssynchrony, contraction efficiency and regional function with apical and non-apical RV pacing

    Article • Heart, February 2015, BMJ

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  37. Global Left Atrial Strain in the Prediction of Sinus Rhythm Maintenance after Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  38. Left Atrial Strain Provides Incremental Value for Embolism Risk Stratification over CHA2DS2-VASc Score and Indicates Prognostic Impact in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, July 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  39. Relation Between Echocardiographically Estimated and Invasively Measured Filling Pressures in Constrictive Pericarditis

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, June 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  40. IMPROVEMENT IN STRAIN CONCORDANCE BETWEEN THE VENDORS AFTER STRAIN STANDARDIZATION INITIATIVE

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  41. CONTRIBUTION OF LV STRAIN IN THE PREDICTION OF 30-DAY READMISSION IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  42. ADDITION OF IMAGING TO RISK SCORES FOR PREDICTING 30-DAY HEART FAILURE READMISSION: CONTRIBUTION OF EJECTION FRACTION AND GLOBAL LONGITUDINAL STRAIN

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  43. EFFECT OF RIGHT VENTRICULAR PACING SITE ON GLOBAL LEFT VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIAL DEFORMATION: ROLE OF DYSSYNCHRONY AND REGIONAL FUNCTION

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  44. Prolonged vortex formation during the ejection period in the left ventricle with low ejection fraction: a study by vector flow mapping

    Article • Journal of Medical Ultrasonics, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  45. PT384 Validation of a Decision Algorithm for Pericardial Drainage

    Article • Global Heart, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  46. PW327 Association of inefficient contraction with deterioration of left ventricular longitudinal function after pacemaker implantation

    Article • Global Heart, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  47. O055 The effect of right ventricular pacing site on left ventricular myocardial deformation

    Article • Global Heart, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  48. PT382 Differences in Global Strain between current versions of Strain software are analogous to variations of EF and less than LV volumes

    Article • Global Heart, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  49. O054 Incremental Value of LV Strain in the Prediction of 30-day Readmission in Patients with Heart Failure

    Article • Global Heart, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  50. Validation of Global Longitudinal Strain and Strain Rate as Reliable Markers of Right Ventricular Dysfunction: Comparison with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Outcome

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound, January 2014, Korean Society of Echocardiography (KAMJE)

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  51. Prognostic Value of LA Volumes Assessed by Transthoracic 3D Echocardiography

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  52. Appropriate test selection for single-photon emission computed tomography imaging: Association with clinical risk, posttest management, and outcomes

    Article • American Heart Journal, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  53. Incremental Diagnostic Value of LA Strain With Leg Lifts in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  54. Independent and Incremental Value of Deformation Indices for Prediction of Trastuzumab-Induced Cardiotoxicity

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  55. Impact of Repeat Myocardial Revascularization on Outcome in Patients With Silent Ischemia After Previous Revascularization

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  56. What is the Primary Source of Discordance in Strain Measurement Between Vendors: Imaging or Analysis?

    Article • Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  57. LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE EMPTYING FLOW VELOCITY AND LEFT ATRIAL STRAIN SIGNIFICANTLY CORRELATE WITH CHA2DS2-VASC SCORE

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  58. Relation of Heart-Rate Recovery to New Onset Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus and Preserved Ejection Fraction

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  59. VALIDATING DICOM-BASED STRAIN IN THE ADULT AND PEDIATRIC POPULATIONS

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  60. CARDIO-PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF BETA-BLOCKADE DURING CHEMOTHERAPY FOR BREAST CANCER

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  61. INCREMENTAL VALUES OF MYOCARDIAL DEFORMATION INDICES FOR PREDICTING SUBSEQUENT FALL IN EJECTION FRACTION IN PATIENTS WITH BREAST CANCER

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  62. OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA AND ASTHMA CO-MORBIDITIES ARE INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS OF NEW HEART FAILURE AND ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS AND PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  63. OUTCOME IMPLICATIONS OF ADDITION OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE RISK TO APPROPRIATE USE CRITERIA

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  64. Normal Values of Real-Time 3-Dimensional Echocardiographic Parameters in a Healthy Japanese Population

    Article • Circulation Journal, January 2012, Japanese Circulation Society

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  65. Role of Temporal Resolution in Selection of the Appropriate Strain Technique for Evaluation of Subclinical Myocardial Dysfunction

    Article • Echocardiography, December 2011, Wiley

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  66. Serum syndecan-4 is a novel biomarker for patients with chronic heart failure

    Article • Journal of Cardiology, May 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  67. MODELING THE HEART FROM ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC STRAIN DATA, COLLECTED ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  68. Gender Differences in Age-Related Changes in Left and Right Ventricular Geometries and Functions

    Article • Circulation Journal, January 2011, Japanese Circulation Society

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  69. The Seabed-like Appearance of Atherosclerotic Plaques: Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiographic Images of the Aortic Arch Causing Cholesterol Crystal Emboli

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  70. Serum Syndecan-4 is a Novel Biomarker for Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

    Article • Journal of Cardiac Failure, September 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  71. Association Between Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients

    Article • Circulation Journal, January 2010, Japanese Circulation Society

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  72. Infective Endocarditis Complicated by Mycotic Aneurysm of a Coronary Artery With a Perforated Mitral Valvular Aneurysm

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, May 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  73. Normal Values of Echocardiographic Parameters in Relation to Age in a Healthy Japanese Population

    Article • Circulation Journal, January 2008, Japanese Circulation Society

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi

  74. Comparison of Accurate Measurement of Left Ventricular Mass in Patients With Hypertrophied Hearts by Real-Time Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Versus Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, May 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Kazuaki Negishi