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:
Sharp A, Malik I.
Secundum atrial septal defects: time to close them all?
Heart. 2008 Sep;94(9):1120-2. No abstract available. PMID: 18703691 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
Hadjiloizou N, Davies JE, Malik IS, Aguado-Sierra J, Willson K, Foale RA, Parker KH, Hughes AD, Francis DP, Mayet J.
Differences in cardiac microcirculatory wave patterns between the proximal left mainstem and proximal right coronary artery.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2008 Sep;295(3):H1198-H1205. Epub 2008 Jul 18. PMID: 18641272 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
Sharp A, Tapp R, Francis DP, McG Thom SA, Hughes AD, Stanton AV, Zambanini A, Chaturvedi N, Byrd S, Poulter NR, Sever PS, Mayet J.
Ethnicity and left ventricular diastolic function in hypertension an ASCOT (Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial) substudy.
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008 Sep 16;52(12):1015-21. PMID: 18786484 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE
Fox KF, Porter A, Unsworth B, Collier T, Leech G, Mayet J.
Report on a national echocardiography quality-control exercise.
Eur J Echocardiogr. 2008 Sep 17. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18801723 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
Whinnett ZI, Davies JE, Nott G, Willson K, Manisty CH, Peters NS, Kanagaratnam P, Davies DW, Hughes AD, Mayet J, Francis DP.
Efficiency, reproducibility and agreement of five different hemodynamic measures for optimization of cardiac resynchronization therapy.
Int J Cardiol. 2008 Sep 26;129(2):216-26. Epub 2007 Sep 18. PMID: 17881070 [PubMed – in process]
Diller GP, Wasan BS, Kyriacou A, Patel N, Casula RP, Athanasiou T, Francis DP, Mayet J.
Effect of coronary artery bypass surgery on myocardial function as assessed by tissue Doppler echocardiography.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2008 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18829341 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
