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Patient testimonials

First, I can’t thank you enough for all your time, interest and care on Thursday.

Secondly, the one stop ‘plumb and sparks’ shop is seriously impressive, staffed by great, caring and efficient people who are fun. In about an hour to do an echo, treadmill test and take 49 blood samples etc. must be close to a W.R....

Seriously, from the patients point of view you are offering full diagnostics almost in the ‘golden hour’ whereas with most other approaches it takes more like a month! The expeditious approach apart from removing patients uncertainty which often weighs heavily means if necessary you are in to treatment almost immediately....

Patients will definitely feel that they and their quality of lfe is being put first.

Mr Y. (2010) Suffolk.

Latest research 2006

Professor Peters, Dr Mayet and Dr Malik are active researchers and are asked to speak locally, nationally and internationally. Below is a selection of their papers.

Dr Jamil Mayet and Tony Blair

49: Peters NS.
Gap junctions: clarifying the complexities of connexins and conduction.
Circ Res. 2006 Nov 24;99(11):1156-8. Review. No abstract available.
PMID: 17122445 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

50: Manisty CH, Willson K, Wensel R, Whinnett ZI, Davies JE, Oldfield WL, Mayet J, Francis DP.
Development of respiratory control instability in heart failure: a novel approach to dissect the pathophysiological mechanisms.
J Physiol. 2006 Nov 15;577(Pt 1):387-401. Epub 2006 Sep 7.
PMID: 16959858 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

51: Cabo C, Yao J, Boyden PA, Chen S, Hussain W, Duffy HS, Ciaccio EJ, Peters NS, Wit AL.
Heterogeneous gap junction remodeling in reentrant circuits in the epicardial border zone of the healing canine infarct.
Cardiovasc Res. 2006 Nov 1;72(2):241-9. Epub 2006 Jul 12.
PMID: 16914125 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

52: Whinnett ZI, Davies JE, Willson K, Manisty CH, Chow AW, Foale RA, Davies DW, Hughes AD, Mayet J, Francis DP.
Haemodynamic effects of changes in atrioventricular and interventricular delay in cardiac resynchronisation therapy show a consistent pattern: analysis of shape, magnitude and relative importance of atrioventricular and interventricular delay.
Heart. 2006 Nov;92(11):1628-34. Epub 2006 May 18.
PMID: 16709698 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

53: Kojodjojo P, Kanagaratnam P, Segal OR, Hussain W, Peters NS.
The effects of carbenoxolone on human myocardial conduction: a tool to investigate the role of gap junctional uncoupling in human arrhythmogenesis.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006 Sep 19;48(6):1242-9. Epub 2006 Aug 28.
PMID: 16979013 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

54: Wong T, Hussain W, Markides V, Gorog DA, Wright I, Peters NS, Davies DW.
Ablation of difficult right-sided accessory pathways aided by mapping of tricuspid annular activation using a Halo catheter : Halo-mapping of right sided accessory pathways.
J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 2006 Sep;16(3):175-82. Epub 2006 Nov 18.
PMID: 17115266 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

55: Tolmachov O, Ma YL, Themis M, Patel P, Spohr H, Macleod KT, Ullrich ND, Kienast Y, Coutelle C, Peters NS.
Overexpression of connexin 43 using a retroviral vector improves electrical coupling of skeletal myoblasts with cardiac myocytes in vitro.
BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2006 Jun 6;6:25.
PMID: 16756651 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

56: Whinnett ZI, Davies JE, Willson K, Chow AW, Foale RA, Davies DW, Hughes AD, Francis DP, Mayet J.
Determination of optimal atrioventricular delay for cardiac resynchronization therapy using acute non-invasive blood pressure.
Europace. 2006 May;8(5):358-66.
PMID: 16635996 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

57: Kanagaratnam P, Dupont E, Rothery S, Coppen S, Severs NJ, Peters NS.
Human atrial conduction and arrhythmogenesis correlates with conformational exposure of specific epitopes on the connexin40 carboxyl tail.
J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2006 May;40(5):675-87.
PMID: 16600287 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

58: Lindsay AC, Wong T, Segal O, Peters NS.
An unusual twist: ventricular tachycardia induced by a loop in a right ventricular pacing wire.
QJM. 2006 May;99(5):347-8. No abstract available.
PMID: 16638753 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

59: Davies JE, Whinnett ZI, Francis DP, Manisty CH, Aguado-Sierra J, Willson K, Foale RA, Malik IS, Hughes AD, Parker KH, Mayet J.
Evidence of a dominant backward-propagating "suction" wave responsible for diastolic coronary filling in humans, attenuated in left ventricular hypertrophy.
Circulation. 2006 Apr 11;113(14):1768-78. Epub 2006 Apr 3.
PMID: 16585389 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

60: Wong T, Markides V, Peters NS, Davies DW.
Anatomic left atrial circumferential ablation to electrically isolate pulmonary veins using a novel focused ultrasound balloon catheter.
Heart Rhythm. 2006 Mar;3(3):370-1. No abstract available.
PMID: 16500315 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

61: Ma YL, Peters NS, Henry JA.
Alpha 1-acid glycoprotein reverses cocaine-induced sodium channel blockade in cardiac myocytes.
Toxicology. 2006 Mar 1;220(1):46-50. Epub 2006 Jan 10.
PMID: 16406254 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

62: Davies JE, Whinnett ZI, Francis DP, Willson K, Foale RA, Malik IS, Hughes AD, Parker KH, Mayet J.
Use of simultaneous pressure and velocity measurements to estimate arterial wave speed at a single site in humans.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2006 Feb;290(2):H878-85. Epub 2005 Aug 26.
PMID: 16126811 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

63: Aguado-Sierra J, Parker KH, Davies JE, Francis D, Hughes AD, Mayet J.
Arterial pulse wave velocity in coronary arteries.
Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2006;1:867-70.
PMID: 17946867 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

64: Peters NS, Shah DC.
Remotely likely?
Heart Rhythm. 2006 Jan;3(1):77. No abstract available.
PMID: 16399058 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]