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:
Khurana R, Malik IS
Metformin: safety in cardiac patients
Postgrad Med J. 2010 Jun;86(1016):371-3. Review. PubMed PMID: 20547605.
Manisty C, Mayet J, Tapp RJ, Parker KH, Sever P, Poulter NR, Thom SA, Hughes AD; ASCOT Investigators
Wave reflection predicts cardiovascular events in hypertensive individuals independent of blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk factors: an ASCOT (Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcome Trial) substudy
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2010 Jun 29;56(1):24-30. Erratum in: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Jan 4 ;57(1):117. Poulter, Neil H [corrected to Poulter, Neil R]. PubMed PMID: 20620713
Kojodjojo P, O’Neill MD, Lim PB, Malcolm-Lawes L, Whinnett ZI, Salukhe TV, Linton NW, Lefroy D, Mason A, Wright I, Peters NS, Kanagaratnam P, Davies DW
Pulmonary venous isolation by antral ablation with a large cryoballoon for treatment of paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation: medium-term outcomes and non-randomised comparison with pulmonary venous isolation by radiofrequency ablation
Heart. 2010 Sep;96(17):1379-84. PubMed PMID: 20801856; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2976075
Pabari PA, Willson K, Stegemann B, van Geldorp IE, Kyriacou A, Moraldo M, Mayet J, Hughes AD, Francis DP
When is an optimization not an optimization? Evaluation of clinical implications of information content (signal-to-noise ratio) in optimization of cardiac resynchronization therapy, and how to measure and maximize it
Heart Fail Rev. 2011 May;16(3):277-90. Review. PubMed PMID: 21110226; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3074062
Malik I
Is coronary artery bypass grafting the treatment of choice for diabetic patients with multivessel disease?
No. BMJ. 2010 Dec 13;341:c6975. doi:
10.1136/bmj.c6975. PubMed PMID: 21149467
Lim PB, Malcolme-Lawes LC, Stuber T, Wright I, Francis DP, Davies DW, Peters NS, Kanagaratnam P
Intrinsic cardiac autonomic stimulation induces pulmonary vein ectopy and triggers atrial fibrillation in humans. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol
2011 Jun;22(6):638-46. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2010.01992.x. Epub 2011 Jan 15. PubMed PMID: 21235671
