Dr Sandeep Basavarajaiah

Dr Sandeep Basavarajaiah has been working as a consultant cardiologist at Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom, since 2014. He received intervention training at world-renowned centres (Papworth Hospital, Cambridge; San Raffaele Hospital, Milan; and Imperial College, London). He also researched the athlete’s heart, focusing on differences in the cardiovascular adaptation to training in black and white athletes.

He works in a busy unit that undertakes around 2000 angioplasties per year, and he performs over 250 PCI annually. Most of his cases are complex interventions, including CTO-PCI, calcified lesions, and left main cases. He leads the CTO-PCI at Heartlands Hospital and regularly organises workshops in collaboration with World experts. Sandeep also has special interests in drug-coated balloons and is considered one of the field's experts. He has presented at various international meetings. He has also been proctoring various centres in Europe and Asia on performing DCB angioplasty. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is also the research lead in his trust and is part of several randomised control trials and registries.

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