Author(s):
Giovanni Maria Vescovo,
Carlo Zivelonghi,
Benjamin Scott,et al
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3 years ago
Coronary chronic total occlusion (CTO), defined as complete occlusion of a coronary artery for at least 3 months with thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) grade 0 flow, represents one of the most complex situations in the field of interventional cardiology.1 Despite an incidence of CTO in patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) undergoing coronary angiography of 18–46%, the…
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Job title: Director of Interventional Cardiology
Dr Sean Gallagheris an interventional cardiologist. His interventional training was at The London Chest Hospital before undertaking an overseas fellowship at the Ottawa Heart Institute.
He was appointed as a consultant in 2014 and now works as the Director of Interventional Cardiology at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.
Dr Gallagher’s clinical interest is the interventional…
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Job title: Interventional Cardiologist
Mario Iannaccone is an interventional cardiologist at the San Giovanni Bosco Hospital in Turin. He received his MD from the University of Neaples in 2010. He completed his clinical and research fellowship in cardiology at Turin University Hospital in 2017 and developed his skills in complex coronary interventions at the San Giovanni Bosco Hospital (Turin) under the mentorship of Dr Roberto Garbo…
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Job title: Interventional Cardiologist
Interventional Cardiologist, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires (ICBA)
His areas of interest have centered around Coronary, complex angioplasty, chronic total occlusion angioplasty and structural heart disease interventions.
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Job title: Clinical Fellow
Jenni Perri received a B.A. degree from Princeton University and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. Following Princeton, Jenni attended Columbia University earning both medical and M.B.A. degrees as part of a dual degree offered track. Her medical training continued at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in the integrated vascular surgery residency, the first program of…
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Job title: Director, Coronary Intervention
DrJaffer is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Interventional Cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.He is Director of Coronary Intervention and Director of the Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) PCI Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.
DrJaffer is also a Principal Investigator in the MGH Cardiovascular Research Center where his NIH-funded laboratory…
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Author(s):
Mirvat Alasnag,Nick Curzen
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3 years ago
Dr Mirvat Alasnag (The King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, KSA) and Prof Nick Curzen (University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK) discuss the design, outcomes, economic implications of the FORECAST late-breaking trial.
Recorded remotely from Jeddah and Southampton, 2020.
Recording Editors: Natascha Wienand, Tom Green
Editor: Mirjam Boros
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Job title: Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Sanjog Kalra is an Interventional Cardiologist at University of Toronto, Toronto, CA.
He specialises in complex, high risk coronary revascularisation, chronic total occlusion and mechanical circulatory support.
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Job title: Head of Interventional Cardiology
Prof Javier Escaned is Head of the Interventional Cardiology Section at Hospital Clinico San Carlos (Madrid, Spain). He trained as a cardiologist in the United Kingdom (Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham and Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry) before moving to the Thoraxcenter/Rotterdam (The Netherlands), where he obtained his PhD degree in 1994.
He has authored over 300 scientific…
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