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:
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]
Khamis RY, Mayet J.
Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy in elite athletes.
Heart. 2008 Oct;94(10):1254-5. Epub 2008 Aug 13. PMID: 18701535
Roepke TK, Kontogeorgis A, Ovanez C, Xu X, Young JB, Purtell K, Goldstein PA, Christini DJ, Peters NS, Akar FG, Gutstein DE, Lerner DJ, Abbott GW.
Targeted deletion of kcne2 impairs ventricular repolarization via disruption of I(K,slow1) and I(to,f).
FASEB J. 2008 Oct;22(10):3648-60. Epub 2008 Jul 4. PMID: 18603586
Leaf DE, Feig JE, Vasquez C, Riva PL, Yu C, Lader JM, Kontogeorgis A, Baron EL, Peters NS, Fisher EA, Gutstein DE, Morley GE.
Connexin40 imparts conduction heterogeneity to atrial tissue.
Circ Res. 2008 Oct 24;103(9):1001-8. Epub 2008 Jul 3. PMID: 18599871
