Takashi Akasaka

Research interests

Publications

• Optical Coherence Tomography–Guided versus Angiography-Guided PCI

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2305861

• Comparison of Clopidogrel Monotherapy After 1 to 2 Months of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy With 12 Months of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome

  JAMA Cardiology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2021.5244

• Optical coherence tomography in coronary atherosclerosis assessment and intervention

  Nature Reviews Cardiology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-022-00687-9

• JCS/JSCS/JATS/JSVS 2020 Guidelines on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease

  Circulation Journal · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1253/circj.cj-20-0135

• JCS 2020 Guideline Focused Update on Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

  Circulation Journal · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1253/circj.cj-19-1109

• Clinical use of intracoronary imaging. Part 2: acute coronary syndromes, ambiguous coronary angiography findings, and guiding interventional decision-making: an expert consensus document of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions

  European Heart Journal · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz332

• JCS 2018 Guideline on Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndrome

  Circulation Journal · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1253/circj.cj-19-0133

• 1-Year Impact on Medical Practice and Clinical Outcomes of FFRCT

  JACC. Cardiovascular imaging · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.03.003

• Identification of High-Risk Plaques Destined to Cause Acute Coronary Syndrome Using Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography and Computational Fluid Dynamics

  JACC. Cardiovascular imaging · 2018 · 10.1016/j.jcmg.2018.01.023

• Real-world clinical utility and impact on clinical decision-making of coronary computed tomography angiography-derived fractional flow reserve: lessons from the ADVANCE Registry

  European Heart Journal · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehy530

• Optical coherence tomography compared with intravascular ultrasound and with angiography to guide coronary stent implantation (ILUMIEN III: OPTIMIZE PCI): a randomised controlled trial

  The Lancet · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31922-5

• OCT Compared With IVUS in a Coronary Lesion Assessment

  JACC. Cardiovascular imaging · 2013 · 10.1016/j.jcmg.2013.04.014

• Prevalence of spontaneous coronary artery dissection in patients with acute coronary syndrome

  European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care · 2013 · 10.1177/2048872613504310

• Consensus Standards for Acquisition, Measurement, and Reporting of Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Studies

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2012 · 10.1016/j.jacc.2011.09.079

• Expert review document part 2: methodology, terminology and clinical applications of optical coherence tomography for the assessment of interventional procedures

  European Heart Journal · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehs095

• Optical Coherence Tomographic Analysis of In-Stent Neoatherosclerosis After Drug–Eluting Stent Implantation

  Circulation · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.110.988436

• Expert review document on methodology, terminology, and clinical applications of optical coherence tomography: physical principles, methodology of image acquisition, and clinical application for assessment of coronary arteries and atherosclerosis

  European Heart Journal · 2009 · 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp433

• Impact of Heterogeneity of Human Peripheral Blood Monocyte Subsets on Myocardial Salvage in Patients With Primary Acute Myocardial Infarction

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2009 · 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.04.021

• Deregulated expression of cytokine receptor gene, CRLF2, is involved in lymphoid transformation in B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia

  Blood · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2009-03-208397

• Assessment of Culprit Lesion Morphology in Acute Myocardial Infarction

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2007 · 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.04.082

• Assessment of Coronary Arterial Plaque by Optical Coherence Tomography

  The American Journal of Cardiology · 2006 · 10.1016/j.amjcard.2005.11.035

• Assessment of Coronary Arterial Thrombus by Optical Coherence Tomography

  The American Journal of Cardiology · 2006 · 10.1016/j.amjcard.2006.01.031

• Coronary Pressure Measurement After Stenting Predicts Adverse Events at Follow-Up

  Circulation · 2002 · 10.1161/01.cir.0000020547.92091.76

• Noninvasive Assessment of Significant Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Stenosis by Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve With Transthoracic Color Doppler Echocardiography

  Circulation · 1998 · 10.1161/01.cir.97.16.1557

• Noninvasive assessment of coronary flow velocity and coronary flow velocity reserve in the left anterior descending coronary artery by Doppler echocardiography

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 1998 · 10.1016/s0735-1097(98)00389-1

Current projects

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