Tatsuya Nakama MD

Dr. Tatsuya Nakama is a Japanese interventional cardiologist. His special field is endovascular intervention for peripheral arterial diseases (PAD), especially in the field of patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI). His interventional technique is outstanding, especially in below-the-knee (BTK) and below-the-ankle (BTA) diseases. He performed many live demonstrations in a famous live course in Japan (He every year performed challenging BTK intervention in Japanese Endovascular Treatment Conference (JET), which is the largest endovascular intervention conference in Asia). He definitely is one of the top operators in Asia.

Furthermore, he wrote some manuscripts about techniques and evidence about BTK/BTA intervention. In last year (2017) January, he published an article about BTA angioplasty, named RENDEZVOUS registry, in JACC Cardiovascular Interventions. This study is only one multi-center study about the clinical impact of BTA angioplasty. From April 2018, he relocates from Miyazaki to Chiba (Tokyo Bay Medical Center). He is now an Associate Director of Tokyo Bay Medical Center.