Posts by Makoto Araki, MD, PhD
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STEMI Due to Plaque Rupture Most Likely to Occur in Morning
Acute myocardial infarction caused by plaque rupture may be related to catecholamine surge in the morning.
Biography
Makoto Araki, MD, PhD, is a research fellow who came from Tokyo Medical and Dental University to work with Dr. Ik-Kyung Jang in the Cardiac OCT Research Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Araki received his MD in 2011 and PhD in cardiovascular medicine in 2019. Before he joined Mass General, he was working as a interventional cardiologist in Japan. Now he is working on clarifying the localization of coronary atherosclerosis.
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