Research
Our cardiologists are at the cutting edge of their fields of interest. They are active researchers and are asked to lecture locally and internationally. See below for a selection of their research:
Stansby G, Macdonald S, Allison R, de Belder M, Brown MM, Dark J, Featherstone R, Flather M, Ford GA, Halliday A, Malik I, Naylor R, Pepper J, Rothwell PM
Asymptomatic carotid disease and cardiac surgery consensus. Angiology.
2011 Aug;62(6):457-60. Epub 2011 Mar 18. PubMed PMID: 21421624
Cleland JG, Teerlink JR, Senior R, Nifontov EM, Mc Murray JJ, Lang CC, Tsyrlin VA, Greenberg BH, Mayet J, Francis DP, Shaburishvili T, Monaghan M, Saltzberg M, Neyses L, Wasserman SM, Lee JH, Saikali KG, Clarke CP, Goldman JH, Wolff AA, Malik FI
The effects of the cardiac myosin activator, omecamtiv mecarbil, on cardiac function in systolic heart failure: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover, dose-ranging phase 2 trial.
Lancet. 2011 Aug 20;378(9792):676-83. PubMed PMID: 21856481
Tondato F, Robinson K, Cui J, Goodchild T, Chronos N, Peters NS
Effects on Arrhythmogenesis and Arrhythmic Threshold of Injection of Autologous Fibroblasts into Myocardial Infarcts in Adult Pigs.
J Cardiovasc Transl Res. 2011 Aug 25. PubMed PMID: 21866384
Kapur A, Qureshi AC, Gallagher S, Finlay M, Malik IS, Mayet J, Roughton M, Beatt KJ, Hall RJ, Nihoyannopoulos P.
Myocardial function may improve equally in diabetic patients following both multivessel percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass grafting: results from a CARDia trial substudy.
Eur J Echocardiogr. 2011 Sep 6. PubMed PMID: 21900302.
Davies JE, Sen S, Broyd C, Hadjiloizou N, Baksi J, Francis DP, Foale RA, Parker KH, Hughes AD, Chukwuemeka A, Casula R, Malik IS, Mikhail GW, Mayet J
Arterial pulse wave dynamics after percutaneous aortic valve replacement: fall in coronary diastolic suction with increasing heart rate as a basis for angina symptoms in aortic stenosis. Circulation.
2011 Oct 4;124(14):1565-72. Epub 2011 Sep 12. PubMed PMID: 21911781
Unsworth B, Casula RP, Yadav H, Baruah R, Hughes AD, Mayet J, Francis DP
Contrasting effect of different cardiothoracic operations on echocardiographic right ventricular long axis velocities, and implications for interpretation of post-operative values.
Int J Cardiol. 2011 Sep 12. PubMedPMID: 21917325.
