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External resources

• COVID 19 related research : https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/COVID-19-infection-linked-with-higher-death-rate-in-acute-heart-failure-patients

Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
North Bristol NHS Trust
Southmead Hospital

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Bristol Heart Institute
Bristol Royal Infirmary

Research interests

Research into the causes and treatment of acute coronary syndromes (heart attacks), heart failure, COVID19, cardiac imaging, myocardial Infarction and MINOCA or ANOCA.

Personal interests

• Complex coronary intervention
• Management of coronary artery disease,
• Myocardial infarction with non-obstructed coronary artery (MINOCA)
• Cardiac impact of COVID 19
• Heart Failure
• Preventive cardiology and risk stratification
• Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
• Out of hospital cardiac arrest
• Cardiomyopathy

Awards received

• Bristol Heath Research Charity Grant- Bristol, 2021
• Spotlight Award: Working together, respecting everyone - University Hospital Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, 2020
• Certificate of Recognition: Outstanding Endeavour Award - University Hospital Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, 2020
• Early Career Award (Clinical) - SCMR/EuroCMR 2015, Nice
• Best Poster Award - ESC Congress 2015, London

Publications

Sammut E, Singhal A, Dastidar AG. MINOCA the Pandora’s Box. Int J Cardiol 2022 (ahead of print)
• Doolub G, Wong C, Hewitson L, … Dastidar A. Impact of COVID-19 on inpatient referral of acute heart failure: a single centre experience from the Southwest of the UK. ESC Heart Fail. 2021; 8(2):1691-1695
• Pataki C, Singhal P, Dastidar A. UK-India Telemedicine Project & COVID-19. QJM 2021; 114(10):759-760
• JK Ackah, AG Dastidar, et al. Acute coronary occlusion after surgical replacement of the aortic valve treated with emergency off‐pump coronary artery bypass grafting. Journal of Cardiac Surgery 2021; 36(10):3877-3880
• Mohamed A, Gogola L, Dastidar A. Chest pain with elevated troponin in a middle-aged man. Heart 2021; 107 (6): 481-512
• Paddock S, V Tsampasian, H Assadi, ... Dastidar A et al. Clinical Translation of Three-Dimensional Scar, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Four-Dimensional Flow, and Quantitative Perfusion in Cardiac MRI: A Comprehensive Review. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 2021; 670
• Hewitson L, Wong C, Aziz S, Dastidar A. Simultaneous spontaneous arterial dissections in a 38-year-old woman presenting during the covid-19 pandemic: a case report. European Heart Journal-Case Reports 2021; 5(3):ytab035
• Lawton C, Moharem-Elgamal S, Dastidar AG, et al. A pilot image interpretation teaching intervention to improve competence and confidence of radiographers to detect left ventricular thrombus in routine cardiac MRI scans. Radiography 2021; 27(2): 527-532
• Baritussio A, Biglino G, Scatteia A, DeGarate E, Dastidar AG et al. Long-term outcome of myocardial scarring and deformation with cardiovascular magnetic resonance in out of hospital cardiac arrest survivors. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2020 epub (ahead of print)
• Jones R, Varian F, Alabed S, ….. Dastidar A et al. Meta‐analysis of echocardiographic quantification of left ventricular filling pressure. ESC Heart Fail 2020; 8(1): 566-576
• Baritussio A, Biglino G, El-Gamal S, DeGarate E, Harries I, Dastidar AG et al. Are all left bundle branch blocks the same? Myocardial mechanical implications by cardiac magnetic resonance. Int J Cardiol 2021; 324: 221-226