Yukio Ozaki, M.D.
Fujita Health University Hospital
Tokyo
Japan
Biographical Sketch: While Prof. Dr. Yukio Ozaki is an interventional cardiologist having specialty coronary stenting and imaging such as OCT, IVUS, NIRS and CT angiography. While Yukio 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” (2005). Based on 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). Yukio, Sadako and Jagat reported that positive remodeling and low attenuation plaque by CT angiography would predict the occurrence of ACS in the future and predict the long-term prognosis (JACC 2007, JACC 2009 & JACC 2015). Recently he is a PI of Rivaroxaban in AF patients with coronary stent (REWRAPS) and a Japanese PI of Master DAPT study.
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