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Specialises in

• General cardiology

• Interventional cardiology

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Dr Vivek Kodoth is a consultant interventional cardiologist at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital. His sub-speciality interest is coronary intervention and is one of the high volume coronary interventional cardiologist in the United Kingdom. Dr Kodoth trained in cardiology in Belfast, Northern Ireland and further specialised in coronary intervention with a two years of complex coronary intervention fellowship. He was awarded MD from the Queens University, Belfast and he is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He is a member of British Cardiac Interventional Society (BCIS) and an affiliate member of Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention (SCAI, USA) . After his fellowship, he was appointed as a consultant cardiologist with special interest in complex coronary intervention to the Leeds Teaching Hospital, Leeds. Moreover, he is an honorary senior lecturer at the Leeds Medical School. Dr Kodoth, relocated to Bournemouth in 2018, after he was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Dr Vivek Kodoth sees patients with general cardiology problems like chest pain, palpitation, breathlessness, heart valve disease and heart failure. He performs coronary angiogram, coronary angioplasty with stenting (using wrist artery), complex coronary intervention using rotablation and laser. Moreover, he is proficient in the use of intracoronary imaging using intracoronary ultrasound, OCT and pressure wire assessment to optimise outcomes.

Research and Publications: Dr Kodoth did research on the management of atrial fibrillation leading to the award of MD from Queens University, Belfast. He has published extensively in national and international peer reviewed journals.

Areas of interest

Dr Vivek Kodoth sees patients privately with general cardiology symptoms/ conditions like chest pain, palpitation, breathlessness, swollen legs, heart valve disease, heart failure, dizziness, fainting episodes, hypertension and abnormal cholesterol level. Furthermore, he sees patients for assessment for fitness to fly for pilots, driving and family screening for inherited cardiac conditions. He performs coronary angiogram, coronary angioplasty with stenting (using wrist artery), complex coronary intervention using rotablation and laser. Moreover, he is proficient in the use of intracoronary imaging using intracoronary ultrasound, OCT and pressure wire assessment to optimise outcomes.

Subspeciality interest: Coronary intervention with stent deployment via wrist artery; Chronic total occlusion (CTO) intervention; Rotablation; Pressure wire assessment; intravascular ultrasound assessment; coronary angiogram; medical management of atrial fibrillation and management of palpitation

Medical secretaries

• Dorset Heart Clinic
• Royal Bournemouth Hospital Castle Lane East Bournemouth BH7 7DW
• 01202 117250
• enquiries@dorsetheartclinic.co.uk

• Emma Watkins
• Nuffield Health Bournemouth Hospital 67-71 Lansdowne Road Bournemouth BH1 1RW
• 01202 702805
• 07717 824225
• emma.watkins@nuffieldhealth.com