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Takashi Akasaka is affiliated with Wakayama Medical University in Japan and specializes primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research topics center on several specific areas within cardiology and related disciplines, including:

  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Aortic aneurysm repair treatments

Takashi Akasaka has contributed to the academic literature with papers published in highly regarded journals. Recent papers include:

  • "Optical coherence tomography in coronary atherosclerosis assessment and intervention," 2022, Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • "JCS 2020 Guideline Focused Update on Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease," 2020, Circulation Journal
  • "JCS/JSCS/JATS/JSVS 2020 Guidelines on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease," 2020, Circulation Journal
  • "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," 2022, JAMA Cardiology
  • "Optical Coherence Tomography-Guided versus Angiography-Guided PCI," 2023, New England Journal of Medicine

Their work frequently appears in the following publication venues:

  • Circulation Journal
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • EuroIntervention
  • JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging
  • European Heart Journal

Takashi Akasaka has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, most notably:

  • Takashi Kubo (52 publications)
  • Yasutsugu Shiono (40 publications)
  • Hitoshi Matsuo (33 publications)
  • Atsushi Tanaka (31 publications)
  • Tetsuya Amano (29 publications)

Best Publications

  • Consensus standards for acquisition, measurement, and reporting of intravascular optical coherence tomography studies: a report from the International Working Group for Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Standardization and Validation.

    Guillermo J. Tearney;Evelyn Regar;Takashi Akasaka;Tom Adriaenssens

  • Assessment of culprit lesion morphology in acute myocardial infarction: ability of optical coherence tomography compared with intravascular ultrasound and coronary angioscopy.

    Takashi Kubo;Toshio Imanishi;Shigeho Takarada;Akio Kuroi

  • 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

    Francesco Prati;Evelyn Regar;Gary S. Mintz;Eloisa Arbustini

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

    Ziad A Ali;Akiko Maehara;Philippe Généreux;Richard A Shlofmitz

  • Noninvasive assessment of coronary flow velocity and coronary flow velocity reserve in the left anterior descending coronary artery by Doppler echocardiography: comparison with invasive technique.

    Takeshi Hozumi;Kiyoshi Yoshida;Takashi Akasaka;Yoshio Asami

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

    Takeshi Hozumi;Kiyoshi Yoshida;Yumiko Ogata;Takashi Akasaka

  • Assessment of Coronary Arterial Plaque by Optical Coherence Tomography

    Teruyoshi Kume;Takashi Akasaka;Takahiro Kawamoto;Nozomi Watanabe

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

    Hiroto Tsujioka;Toshio Imanishi;Hideyuki Ikejima;Akio Kuroi

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

    Kazuo Kimura;Takeshi Kimura;Masaharu Ishihara;Yoshihisa Nakagawa

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

    Francesco Prati;Giulio Guagliumi;Gary S. Mintz;Marco Costa

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

    Soo-Jin Kang;Gary S. Mintz;Takashi Akasaka;Duk-Woo Park

  • Color Doppler evaluation of valvular regurgitation in normal subjects.

    K Yoshida;J Yoshikawa;M Shakudo;T Akasaka

  • Coronary pressure measurement after stenting predicts adverse events at follow-up: A multicenter registry

    Nico H.J. Pijls;Volker Klauss;Uwe Siebert;Eric Powers

  • Measurement of the thickness of the fibrous cap by optical coherence tomography

    Teruyoshi Kume;Takashi Akasaka;Takahiro Kawamoto;Hiroyuki Okura

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

    Tsuyoshi Nishiguchi;Atsushi Tanaka;Yuichi Ozaki;Akira Taruya

  • Feasibility of Noninvasive Assessment of Thin-Cap Fibroatheroma by Multidetector Computed Tomography

    Manabu Kashiwagi;Atsushi Tanaka;Hironori Kitabata;Hiroto Tsujioka

  • 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.

    Thomas W Johnson;Lorenz Räber;Carlo di Mario;Christos Bourantas

  • Effect of statin therapy on coronary fibrous-cap thickness in patients with acute coronary syndrome: assessment by optical coherence tomography study.

    Shigeho Takarada;Toshio Imanishi;Takashi Kubo;Takashi Tanimoto

  • Effect of Atorvastatin Therapy on Fibrous Cap Thickness in Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque as Assessed by Optical Coherence Tomography: The EASY-FIT Study

    Kenichi Komukai;Takashi Kubo;Hironori Kitabata;Yoshiki Matsuo

  • OCT compared with IVUS in a coronary lesion assessment: the OPUS-CLASS study.

    Takashi Kubo;Takashi Akasaka;Junya Shite;Takahiko Suzuki

Frequent Co-Authors

Junichi Yoshikawa
Junichi Yoshikawa Osaka Metropolitan University
Takeshi Kimura
Takeshi Kimura Kyoto University
Bon-Kwon Koo
Bon-Kwon Koo Seoul National University Hospital
Manesh R. Patel
Manesh R. Patel Duke University
Koen Nieman
Koen Nieman Stanford University
Giulio Guagliumi
Giulio Guagliumi ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital
Bernard De Bruyne
Bernard De Bruyne Cardiovascular Center Aalst
Jonathon Leipsic
Jonathon Leipsic University of British Columbia
Hiroyuki Tsutsui
Hiroyuki Tsutsui Kyushu University
Daniel S. Berman
Daniel S. Berman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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