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Angiography

STEMI

Job title: Head of Department
Dr Christopher Zeitz is the Head of Department of the Cardiology Unit at theUniversity of Adelaide, Adelaide Medical School; and Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide, Australia. For his education, Dr Zeitz studied at the university of Adelaide. He received his MBBS in 1988, and his PhD in 1999. He is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians. In 2019, Dr Zeitz… View more
Author(s): Wolfgang Koenig Added: 3 years ago
The notion that atherosclerosis carries features of an inflammatory disease has existed for quite some time. As early as 1856, Rudolf Virchow in his Textbook on Pathology mentioned the term “coronaritis”. Almost 150 years later, following the elucidation of major cardiovascular risk factors in the 1950s Framingham Study, Russell Ross entitled his 1999 review on mechanisms of atherosclerosis … View more
Job title: Senior Consultant Cardiologist and Head of Interventional Cardiology Services
Dr Ho Hee Hwa graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1997 and completed his cardiology training in Queen Mary Hospital in 2004. He undertook an Interventional Cardiology Fellowship program in 2006 at New York Presbyterian Weill-Cornell Hospital, USA. Dr Ho joined the Department of Cardiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore in 2010. He is currently a Senior Consultant Cardiologist… View more
Author(s): E Magnus Ohman Added: 4 years ago
GEMINI-ACS - Comparison of the Safety of Rivaroxaban Versus Aspirin in Addition to Either Clopidogrel or Ticagrelor Therapy in Participants With Acute Coronary Syndrome. Interview with Professor E. Magnus Ohman from Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA at ACC 2017. View more
Research Area(s) / Expertise:

Coronary Artery Disease and Myocardial Infarction

Coronary Interventions

Job title: Senior Lecturer in Clinical Cardiology and Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Ranil de Silva is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Cardiology and Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, where he leads the Specialist Angina Service. Dr de Silva completed his training in general and interventional cardiology in London, including at the Royal Brompton, Hammersmith and St Mary’s Hospitals. He undertook post-doctoral research at the Division of… View more
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Dr Olivia Manfrini graduated from Bologna University Medical School with full honors, and passed with full honors the Postgraduate Boards in Internal Medicine at Bologna University Medical School. Dr Olivia Manfrini works at the University of Bologna where she teaches at the graduate course and postgraduate course, and performs clinical research focusing on the pathophysioloy of acute coronary… View more
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Professor and Chairman of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Mario Marzilli has been Professor and Chairman of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cardiothoracic Department of Pisa University Medical School (Italy) since 2007. He is also Director of the Post-Graduate School of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Pisa (from 2010). His research is focused on coronary pathophysiology, interventional cardiology, ischemic heart disease,… View more
Author(s): Vinoda Sharma , Abdul Mozid Added: 1 year ago
What considerations must be made when screening chronic total occlusion patients undergoing PCI, and how can CT be used in daily practice? In this month's episode of ECR Podcast, Dr Vinoda Sharma, (Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK) and Dr Abdul Mozid, (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK) discuss the ways in which CT coronary angiography can be utilised… View more
Author(s): Abhiram Prasad Added: 3 years ago
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) or syndrome was first described more than 2 decades ago by Dote and colleagues in Japan, but has since been increasingly recognised around the world.1 Takotsubo is the Japanese name for a the traditional octopus trapping pot that has a round bottom and narrow neck, resembling the appearance the left ventricle during the acute presentation (see Figure 1).2 Although,… View more
Author(s): Pablo Avanzas Added: 3 years ago
It is a great pleasure for me to introduce the International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy (ISCP) section on cardiovascular pharmacotherapy. This issue features a variety of excellent manuscripts on intriguing topics, including the anti-inflammatory effects of curcumin, the effects of statins on T-cell function in acute coronary syndrome in Asian populations, and the cost… View more