Live case – Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast

A consultant cardiologist at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. Features in 20 videos on Wondr Medical. Colm Hanratty generally speaks on Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), Calcium Scoring, and Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

Dr Simon Walsh has been working as a Consultant Cardiologist at the Belfast Trust for over 10 years. It is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. The centre performs ~2750 PCI per year, with 650-700 STEMI and calcium modification in ~10% of our PCI cases. Dr Walsh also works internationally as an educator, teaching advanced techniques for complex PCI and CTO PCI. This involves training visiting Cardiologists in Belfast retrograde CTO techniques, antegrade dissection and re-entry CTO techniques and other advanced PCI procedures. He has visited multiple centres in the UK, Ireland, Europe, Australia, Asia and North America to act as a visiting proctor for complex PCI and CTO PCI cases. Dr Walsh’s research interests include PCI, coronary artery disease, defibrillation, acute coronary syndromes and chronic total occlusions. Research responsibilities have included acting as a recruiting investigator for the >25 multicentre studies over the last 17 years. He acted as a primary investigator for numerous international trials including the Evolve, Noble, Leaders Free and Ischemia multicentre studies. He has been the lead UK investigator for the October trial, Syntax 2, Recharge and Ischaemia-CTO. He is also the Chief Investigator for the Consistent CTO, Celtic Bifurcation and Discrete CTO trials.

A consultant cadiologist at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. Features in 8 videos on Wondr Medical. Adrian Banning generally speaks on Bifurcation, Left Main Stem (LMS), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), and Multi Vessel Disease.

An interventional cardiologist at University Hospital of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Features in 17 videos on Wondr Medical. Julian Strange generally speaks on Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI), Bifurcation, Left Main Stem (LMS), and Coronary Interventions.

An interventional cardiology at Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. Features in 2 videos on Wondr Medical. Sundeep Kalra generally speaks on Covid19 Webinars and Discussions and Covid-19.

Prof James C Spratt has global experience in training physicians in complex and CTO PCI. He is the Director of Optimal CTO and the author of the Retrograde iBook and co-author of the antegrade iBook.