Publications by authors named "Katsuaki Yokota"

We herein report the case of a 25-year-old Japanese woman with left-main-trunk acute myocardial infarction (LMT-AMI). She had cardiogenic shock, so emergency percutaneous intervention was performed. Intravascular ultrasound of LMT-AMI showed that the three-layered structure of the intima, tunica media, and adventitia was not clearly visible, and the vessel was concentrically thickened; unstable plaque and calcification were not seen.

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A 52-year-old woman with Takayasu arteritis developed acute coronary syndrome and received percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The patient experienced restenosis three times even with drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation. We started steroid administration after the fourth PCI to reduce inflammation due to autoimmunity.

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