Yoritaka Otsuka, MD

Repaired Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture After Acute Myocardial Infarction by Percutaneous Intrapericardial Fibrin-Glue Injection Therapy

08/29/2013

Taichi Okonogi , MD;

Evangelos A. Diamantakos , DO, FHRS, FACC, FACOI;

Yoritaka Otsuka , MD;

Taro Saito , MD;

Left ventricular free wall rupture is a rare, but occasionally lethal, complication after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We describe a patient who presented with cardiogenic shock due to oozing-type rupture secondary to AMI and...

Left ventricular free wall...

08/29/2013

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Usefulness of the Corsair Microcatheter for Treatment of Complex Chronic Total Occlusion

01/31/2012

Yoritaka Otsuka , MD;

Keita Nakamura , MD;

Taro Saito , MD;

ABSTRACT: Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for the treatment of chronic total occlusion (CTO) is one of the most technically challenging areas of interventional cardiology. When CTO is combined with angulation and tortuosity of the...

ABSTRACT: Percutaneous coronary...

01/31/2012

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Usefulness of the SafeCut Dual Wire PTCA Catheter for the
Treatment of Calcified Lesions

08/01/2008

Yoritaka Otsuka , MD;

Shumpei Mori , MD;

Atsushi Kawamura , MD;

In-stent restenosis has long remained the major limitation of coronary stenting. Recent randomized trials have shown that the use of drug-eluting stents (DES) markedly reduce the risk of in-stent restenosis following treatment of de novo...

In-stent restenosis has long...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Intractable Prinzmetal‚Äôs Angina Three Months after Implantation of Sirolimus-Eluting Stent

11/04/2008

Mitsuru Abe , MD;

Akemi Yoshida , MD;

Yoritaka Otsuka , MD;

ABSTRACT: Sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) prevent neointimal proliferation and have been widely used to treat stenotic lesions in coronary arteries because of a significant reduction of restenosis in comparison with bare-metal stents....

ABSTRACT: Sirolimus-eluting...

11/04/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Snaring the Retrograde Wire in the Aortic Root for Chronic Total Occlusion after Bentall Operation (Full title below)

07/14/2009

Yoritaka Otsuka , MD;

Yu Kataoka , MD;

Tetsuya Fukuda , MD;

Snaring the Retrograde Wire in the Aortic Root for Chronic Total Occlusion after Bentall Operation in a Patient with Behcet’s Disease From the Division of Cardiology and *Radiology, National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan. The...

Snaring the Retrograde Wire in...

07/14/2009

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Case Report

Use of SafeCut Balloon‚Ñ¢ for Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis of a Previously Underexpanded (Full title below)

09/06/2009

Yoritaka Otsuka , MD;

Yoichiro Kasahara ;

Atsushi Kawamura , MD;

ABSTRACT: Calcified lesions are a cause of stent underexpansion which significantly increases the subsequent risks of in-stent restenosis and thrombosis, even when drug-eluting stents are used. In this report, we describe a novel balloon...

ABSTRACT: Calcified lesions are...

09/06/2009

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Original Contribution

Scanning Electron Microscopic Analysis of Defects in Polymer Coatings of Three Commercially Available Stents: Comparison of Biod

08/01/2008

Yoritaka Otsuka , MD;

Nicolas A.F. Chronos , MD;

Robert P. Apkarian , PhD;

Keith A. Robinson , PhD;

Coronary stenting has demonstrated a consistent ability to reduce restenosis rates compared with percutaneous “plain old” balloon catheter angioplasty. However, in-stent restenosis has long remained the major limitation of coronary stenting....

Coronary stenting has...

08/01/2008

Journal of Invasive Cardiology