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.
Platelets play a key role in the pathophysiological processes of hemostasis and thrombus formation. However, platelet functions beyond thrombosis and hemostasis have been increasingly identified in recent years. A large body of evidence now exists...
Kang Gu   Xing-Min Geng   Yuan Yue   Yukio Ozaki   
JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE KYUSHU UNIVERSITY 61(2) 273-279 2016年9月 [査読有り]
High temperature has been an obstacle to grow Rhododendron plants, and there are few reports on anatomical changes of Rhododendron plants under heat stress. To identify the mechanism of anatomical adjustment under high temperature, three Rhododend...
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