Chronic Total Occlusions (CTO): 60 Second Insights

Published: 08 March 2018

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Overview

A series of 60-second interviews where Ajay Kirtane, Simon Walsh, Paul Knappen, Emmanouil Brilakis, Carlos Di Mario, Partick Serruys and Gerald Werner provide their thoughts on CTOs.

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Faculty Biographies

Patrick W Serruys

Patrick W Serruys

Prof Patrick W Serruys has been a senior interventional cardiologist since 1977, Chief of Interventional Research since 1988, the Chief of Interventional Cardiology at the Thorax Center from 1997-2012, and Prof. of Medicine till April 1st 2014 at Erasmus MC. In 2006, Prof Serruys and Prof John Ormiston developed fully biodegradable drug-eluting scaffolds.

Prof Serruys has won career achievement awards from the TCT, the American College of Cardiology, and the European Society of Cardiology. 

Currently, he is Professor of Cardiology in the Cardiovascular Science Division of the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) of Imperial College in London (UK).

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