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:
Carotid artery stenting compared with endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (International Carotid Stenting Study): an interim analysis of a randomised controlled trial. .
Lancet. 2010 Mar 20;375(9719):985-97. Epub 2010 Feb 25.PMID: 20189239
Selective right ventricular impairment following coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2009 [Epub ahead of print].
Attenuation of microvascular function in those with cardiovascular disease is similar in patients of Indian Asian and European descent.
BMC Journal of Cardiovascular Disorders (in press).
The arterial reservoir pressure increases with aging and is the major determinant of the aortic augmentation index.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Phy Physiol 2009 [Epub ahead of print].
Differences in the magnitude of wave reflection account for differential effects of amlodipine- versus atenolol-based regimens on central blood pressure: an Anglo-Scandinavian cardiac outcome trial substudy..
Hypertension. 2009;54:724-30
Atorvastatin Treatment Is Associated With Less Augmentation of the Carotid Pressure Waveform in Hypertension. A Substudy of the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcome Trial (ASCOT)..
Hypertension. 2009 [Epub ahead of print]