Platelet function in pregnant women receiving aspirin and dipyridamole Keiko KinouchiTomio FujitaSeiji Kitamura Original articles Pages: 115 - 118
Continuous intra-arterial blood gas monitoring during thoracic surgery Seiji IshikawaSusumu OhmiKoshi Makita Pages: 119 - 123
Pharmacokinetic profile of propofol after a single-dose injection during general anesthesia in Japanese adults Yoshinori OkadaMasashi KawamotoOsafumi Yuge Pages: 124 - 127
Effects of sevoflurane and isoflurane on the ratio of cerebral blood flow/metabolic rate for oxygen in neurosurgery Yasuhiro KurodaMari MurakamiTakefumi Sakabe Pages: 128 - 134
Propofol injection pain is not alleviated by pretreatment with flurbiprofen axetil, a prodrug of a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug Fujio KarasawaTakafumi EhataTetsuo Satoh Pages: 135 - 137
Changes in left ventricular end-diastolic area, end-systolic wall stress, and fractional area change during anesthetic induction with propofol or thiamylal Ken YamauraSumio HokaShosuke Takahashi Pages: 138 - 142
Quantification of the degradation products of sevoflurane using four brands of CO2 absorbent in a standard anesthetic circuit Yukako IkeuchiHiromichi BitoShigehito Sato Pages: 143 - 146
Effect of linear polarized light radiation on impaired mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in skeletal muscle Akira KudohAkitomo Matsuki Pages: 147 - 150
Myocardial ischemia due to paradoxical air embolism during living-related donor liver transplantation in a child Takehiko AdachiYuji OdaKazuhiko Fukuda Clinical reports Pages: 151 - 153
Serum mucin-like glycoprotein antigen (KL-6) as a specific marker of interstitial pneumonia: a case report Ryu OkutaniSadataka KyoChikara Tashiro Pages: 154 - 156
Pulmonary edema after laparoscopic adrenalectomy in a pregnant patient with Cushing's syndrome Yasunori M. NakashimaYasuhiro ItonagaShosuke Takahashi Pages: 157 - 159
Unexpected resistance to pancuronium in a patient with myotonic dystrophy (myotonia dystrophica) Kenji KodamaTakashi AkataShosuke Takahashi Pages: 160 - 163
A randomized, double-blind trial comparing the effect of mixing propofol with either lidocaine or nafamostat mesilate on injection pain Hiroshi Iwama Short communications Pages: 164 - 165
Binding of [14C]thiopental to rat cerebrocortical membranes Kazuyoshi HirotaDavid G. Lambert Pages: 166 - 168
Inadvertent subcutaneous infusion of propofol by a syringe pump Rumiko Uda Letters to the editor Pages: 169 - 170
pH-Stat management is more appropriate during deep hypothermia, especially when circulatory arrest is added Tadaomi-Alfonso MiyamotoKoho-Julio Miyamoto Pages: 171 - 172
