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Doctor Katsuomi Iwakura

Sakurabashi-Watanabe Hospital, Osaka (Japan)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology

Dr. Iwakura received M.D. in 1984, and Ph.D. in 1989 from Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. He is specialized in echocardiography, and also interested in heart failure and in ischemic heart disease. He has been a cardiologist in Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital, Osaka, Japan, since 1993, and is now a vice-president of Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital.

A novel risk score incorporating frailty or congestion status predicted mortality in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

Session: HFpEF: data from animal studies and registries

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Estimated transmitral E- and A-wave overlapping predicted prognosis in patient with heart failure with preserved ejection.

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

Session: Diagnosis and prognosis of HFpEF

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Triglyceride glucose index, a novel marker of insulin resistance, predicts outcomes in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

Session: Further insights into inflammation, immunology, and insulin resistance in heart failure

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Development of the new risk score to predict occurrence of atrial fibrillation early after acute myocardial infarction.

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Atrial Stressors

Session: Atrial fibrillation in context of concomitant medical conditions

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Prediction of functional capacity by the HFA-PEFF score in patients with acute decompensated heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a post-hoc analysis from the PURSUIT-HFpEF registry.

Event: ESC Congress 2021 - The Digital Experience

Topic: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

Session: Chronic heart failure e-posters

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Validation of the HFA-PEFF- and H2FPEF score in Japanese patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Event: ESC Congress 2020

Topic: Diagnostic Methods

Session: Circulating and Imaging Biomarkers in Heart Failure

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