Dr Fawaz Akhras
MB BCh MPhil MD FESC FAHA FACC
Title: Consultant Cardiologist
Specialty 1: Cardiology
Specialty 1 Specialisation: Coronary angioplasty & stenting coronary artery disease, hypertension
Clinical Interests: Coronary disease, therapeutic & intervene mgmt of IHD, heart failure.
Pen Picture: Previous registrar at Guys, National Heart Hospitals, Lecturer/Hon Sen Registrar Kings College Hosp, Sen Lec Westminster Charing Cross, Con Interventional Cardiologist/Chief of Cardiology Military Hosp Jeddah. Author of several publications.
Languages Spoken: English, French, Arabic
Regular Cromwell Clinics: Yes
Telephone Number: 020 7460 5700
Clinic days:
Mon
: ad hoc
Tue
: ad hoc
Wed
: ad hoc
Thurs
: eve
Fri
: ad hoc
Sat
: ad hoc
Year Qualified: 1973
Memberships: AmColl of Card, Am Heart Ass, Euro Soc of Card., British Cardiac Intervention Society(B.C.I.S.)
British Society of echocardiography
NHS Hospital: King's College
Additional Posts:
Research Interests: PTCA/Stenting in Acute myocardial infection
Published Papers: • Early exercise testing and elective coronary artery bypass surgery after uncomplicated myocardial infarction: Effect on morbidity and mortality.
Br Heart J 1984;52:413-417
Akhras F, Upward JW, Keates J, Jackson G.
• Oversized balloons, low inflation pressure and prolonged coronary dilatation strategy results in dramatic improvements in angioplasty results and re-stenosis rate: Early and late results.
American College of Cardiology. Anaheim , California, 16-9 March 1997.
J Am Coll Cardiol 1997; 29: 235-236.
• Coronary angioplasty for patients with poor ejection fraction and ischaemic left heart failure refractory to maximum medical therapy: early and late follow-up results.
Heart failure '97. Cologne, Germany 24-27 May 1997
• Primary coronary angioplasty vs. thrombolytic therapy for treatment of acute myocardial infarction. Findings from the PCAT collaboration.
XIVth Congress of the European Society of Cardiology. Barcelona, August 1999.
• Primary coronary angioplasty vs. thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction (MI): Long term follow-up of ten randomised trials.
American Heart Association, 72 nd scientific sessions, Atlanta, November 1999.