Takashi Kajiya
Latest contributions
Complex coronary interventions - Current day challenges and solutions
11 Oct 2025 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2025
Addressing current challenges in complex coronary interventions, this session covers management strategies for CHIP patients, advanced techniques for highly calcified lesions, and principles for mechanical circulatory support application in high-risk PCI scenarios. It offers practical insights and case-based discussions to optimize safety and efficacy in contemporary...
Stent failure: LIVE Educational Case from Apollo Hospitals - Chennai, India
11 Oct 2025 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2025
This educational session presents a live case from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, focusing on stent failure management. It emphasizes the critical role of imaging in optimizing treatment for in-stent restenosis, discusses essential lesion preparation tools, and reviews various therapeutic options to improve patient care.
Complex non left main bifurcation: LIVE Educational Case from Apollo Hospitals - Chennai, India
11 Oct 2025 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2025
This educational session focuses on complex non-left main bifurcation lesions, highlighting the importance of intracoronary imaging to understand lesion anatomy and complexity. It provides detailed guidance on selecting optimal stenting strategies and demonstrates a step-by-step provisional stenting approach through a live case from Apollo Hospitals, Chennai,...
IVUS or OCT? Choosing the right imaging for the right lesion - A case-based debate
10 Oct 2025 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2025
This case-based debate examines the complementary roles of IVUS and OCT imaging modalities in precision PCI. It highlights lesion-specific factors guiding modality choice, including left main disease, bifurcations, calcified plaques, and acute coronary syndromes, supported by real-world clinical cases demonstrating imaging-based decision-making.
Challenging STEMI cases
05 Oct 2024 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2024
Dive into a collection of challenging STEMI cases submitted to the AICT-AsiaPCR 2024 conference. Explore complex scenarios, such as managing coronary artery dissection, confronting silent threats, and performing zero-contrast PCI. This session offers valuable lessons and insights to enhance your approach to STEMI management.

How should I treat complex lesion from the intracoronary imaging view?
05 Oct 2024 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2024
Intracoronary imaging plays a crucial role in guiding treatment strategies for complex lesions. This session delves into the use of various imaging modalities, such as IVUS and OCT, to optimize PCI outcomes. Explore real-world case examples, including a sudden coronary arrest caused by focal stenosis with...

How to manage complications in CTO PCI
22 Sep 2023 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2023
Explore complex CTO PCI scenarios and gain insights into complications and their solutions in this session. Topics include CTO vessel rupture after a covered stent bailout, epicardial channel perforation management, dissection from collateral tip injection, and more!

Learning - A mission impossible: smorgasboard of high bleeding risk issues
21 Sep 2023 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2023
Consult this session to explore practical insights into identifying high bleeding risk individuals and implementing effective strategies to prevent and reduce bleeding complications, especially in complex scenarios, to learn to navigate the intricate maze of post-PCI anti-thrombotic strategies in high bleeding risk patients and to find...

Rotational atherectomy for the treatment of calcified coronary lesion - Session with LIVE case
07 Oct 2022 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2022
Let's see how this 80-year-old female patient with hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, history of ischaemic heart disease (2018) and NSTEMI (August 2022), currently asymptomatic but mainly homebound, was treated LIVE, and learn more about the treatment of calcified coronary lesion.

Deep dive into TRI-PCI: big data to clinical practice
13 Dec 2020 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2020
Watch this session to understand the value of big data, to learn and gain confidence in TRI for complex PCI cases and to discuss the intricacies of TRI-PCI with the experts.
This session was originally presented during AICT-AsiaPCR 2020.

Challenging cases
05 Jul 2019 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2019
Consult this session to discover a selection of compelling cases, such as a distal left main stenosis in adolescent boy, a case of PCI with essential thrombocythemia, an ostial right coronary artery in-stent CTO, and more!

Some STEMI PCI are more difficult than others!
04 Jul 2019 – From AICT-AsiaPCR 2019
Consult this session to discover challengig STEMI PCI cases, and learn more about how to manage them and what could be the best treatment strategy in different STEMI scenarios.
