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:
Kontogeorgis A, Li X, Kang EY, Feig JE, Ponzio M, Kang G, Kaba RA, Wit AL, Fisher E, Morley GE, Peters NS, Coetzee WA, Gutstein DE.
Decreased connexin43 expression in the mouse heart potentiates pacing-induced remodeling of repolarizing currents.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2008 Aug 29. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18757477 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher
Ferenczi EA, Malik IS, Mayet J, Foale RA, Francis DP.
Abciximab in coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction and stable ischemic heart disease: early investment for growing benefit.
J Invasive Cardiol. 2008 Sep;20(9):437-41. PMID: 18762671 [PubMed – in process]
Lim PB, Linton NW, Salukhe TV, Kojodjojo P, Koa-Wing M, Stuber T, Davies DW, Kanagaratnam P, Peters NS, O’Neill MD.
His delay: a case of ice on the path?
J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2008 Sep;19(9):995-6. Epub 2008 Jul 8. No abstract available. PMID: 18631269 [PubMed – in process]
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
