Alternative Access (Axillary, Transcaval)

Dr. Basir specializes in the treatment of complex heart blockage with minimally invasive techniques using balloons and stents. He is one of a handful of people in the country who has completed dedicated training specializing in techniques to open chronic total occlusions or heart blockages that have been completely blocked for many months or years. He is a national leader in the treatment of cardiogenic shock and lectures around the world on the use of temporary heart pumps when the heart is failing.  Dr. Basir is highly published in the treatment of cardiogenic shock when the heart fails due to a heart attack, heart blockage or weakness in the heart muscle. He lectures internationally on the topic and has published numerous article of the subject.  Dr. Basir has also published on the treatment of highly complex heart blockage in the hope of working toward making these procedures safer for patients.

Chris Brown is a Interventional Cardiologist and Vascular Medicine Specialist at Swedish Heart and Vascular Institute. He graduated from medical school at Oregon Health and Sciences university. He went on to complete his residency at Vanderbilt University medical center, cardiology fellowship at Cedars Sinai and Interventional cardiology fellowship at Scripps Clinic La Jolla. His areas of interest are complex PCI, TAVR, endovascular interventions and outcomes research.

Dr. Pratik Sandesara is an interventional cardiologist at Emory University Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. His clinical focus is on complex and high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention including chronic total occlusion revascularization.