BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: While Prof. Dr. Yukio Ozaki is an interventional cardiologist having specialty in the field of acute myocardial infarction (Ozaki Y. et al; CVIT expert consensus document on primary PCI for AMI in 2018. Cardiovasc Interv Ther. 2018;33:178-203), coronary imaging such as OCT, IVUS, NIRS, angioscopy, CT angiography as well as structural heart disease (SHD). While Dr. Yukio Ozaki is the first Japanese fellow under the supervision of Prof. Patrick W. Serruys in the Thoraxcenter Erasmus University Rotterdam, he defended his thesis entitled “Clinical Application of IVUS and QCA to Assess PCI and Atherosclerosis” at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Based on his Rotterdam experience, Prof. Dr. Yukio Ozaki proposed for the first time that intact fibrous cap ACS (IFC-ACS) by OCT and angioscopy would be plaque erosion (EHJ 2011), reported firstly integrated backscatter IVUS defined thin cap fibroatheroma (TCFA) in comparison with OCT (Circ J 2015), initially examine the fate of incomplete stent apposition (ISA) in DES by OCT (EHJ 2010). While Yukio Ozaki, Sadako Motoyama and Jagat Narula initially reported that positive remodeling (PR) and low attenuation plaque (LAP) are crucial factors in ACS lesions by CT angiography, they published these features could predict the occurrence of future ACS and play a role in the long-term prognosis for the first time (JACC 2007, JACC 2009 & JACC 2015). Subsequently, Dr. Ozaki’s CITATION INDEX has reached 7,214 by Pure System in Elsevier in December 2019.
S. M. Ziauddin   Jorge Luis Montenegro Raudales   Kayo Sato   Hidenobu Yoshioka   Yukio Ozaki   Takashi Kaneko   Atsutoshi Yoshimura   Yoshitaka Hara   
JOURNAL OF PERIODONTOLOGY 87(9) 1083-1091 2016年9月 [査読有り]
Background: It has been shown that toll-like receptor (TLR) 2- and TLR4-stimulating abilities of supragingival plaque (SPP) are associated with periodontal conditions. It is hypothesized that SPP might affect the periodontium through its influence...
Montenegro Raudales JL   Yoshimura A   Sm Z   Kaneko T   Ozaki Y   Ukai T   Miyazaki T   Latz E   Hara Y   
INTERNATIONAL HEART JOURNAL 57(4) 507-510 2016年7月 [査読有り]
We report the case of a 66 year-old woman with chronic atrial fibrillation, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), and spinocerebellar atrophy (SCA). Her mother and first-born son had died of heart disease at the ages of 65 and 16 years, respectively....
Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions 94(7) 947-955 2019年12月
OBJECTIVES: We sought to examine associations between plaque characteristics by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and detectability of external elastic lamina (EEL) by optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) in human coronary arteries. BACKGROUND: I...
Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society 83(5) 1054-1063 2019年4月
BACKGROUND: Beta-blockers are standard therapy for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, despite current advances in the management of AMI, it remains unclear whether all AMI patients benefit from β-blockers. We investigated whether admissio...
Previous studies have demonstrated that use of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was associated with lower incidence of death, myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularization. Recently, opti...
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) improve survival in patients who are at risk of sudden death. However, inappropriate therapy is commonly given to ICD recipients, and this situation may be associated with an increased risk of death. ...
Ito H   Motoyama S   Sarai M   Kawai H   Nagahara Y   Harigaya H   Kan S   Naruse H   Ishii J   Ozaki Y   
Shiino K   Sugimoto K   Yamada A   Inuzuka H   Kato M   Sone M   Takada K   Sugimoto K   Takagi Y   Iwase M   Ozaki Y   
Naruse H   Ishii J   Okuyama R   Ohta M   Hashimoto T   Hattori K   Okumura M   Mori Y   Matsui S   Izawa H   Ozaki Y   
Ito H   Motoyama S   Sarai M   Kawai H   Nagahara Y   Takada K   Okumura M   Naruse H   Ishii J   Ozaki Y