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Current NHS consultant posts held

Interventional cardiologist and electrophysiologist Trent Cardiac Centre Nottingham University Hospitals since 1994

Research interests

MD Catheter ablation 1992
Papers on ablation,pacing,stents,angina.
Numerous international studies including currently Pegasus and Fourier Previously involved in Aristotle study, DANPACE, ARISE, UKPACE.

Awards received

Clinical excellence award level 9 (maximum local award) 2013

Publications

Ahsan AJ, Cunningham AD, Rowland E, and Rickards AF. Catheter ablation without fulguration: Design and performance of a new system. PACE 1989;12:1557-1561

Rowland E, Cunningham AD, Ahsan AJ and Rickards AF. Catheter ablation of AV conduction using a new power source. Br Heart J. 1989; 62:361-6

Ahsan AJ, Cunningham AD, Rowland E. Low energy catheter ablation of right ventricular outflow tract tachycardia. Br. Heart J. 1991;65: 231-233.

Connelly DT, Rowland E, Ahsan AJ and Cunningham D. Low energy ablation of a posteroseptal accessory pathway associated with a diverticulum of the coronary sinus. PACE 1991;14:1217-21.

Porter J, Ahsan AJ, Mulcahy D and Sigwart U. Coronary stents. Brit J Hosp Med 1992:47;411-9.

Ahsan A. Indications for pacing. Lancet 1992:339;62.

Ahsan A, Aldridge R and Bowes R. 1:1 atrioventricular conduction in atrial flutter with digoxin and flecainide. Int J. Cardiol 1993:39;88-90

R J Siegel, J Gunn, A Ahsan,et al Use of therapeutic ultrasound in percutaneous coronary angioplasty Experimental in vitro studies and initial clinical experience Circulation. 1994;89:1587-92,

Zachariah BJ, Ahsan AJ Nicorandil – a clinical review. British J Cardiology 1995:35:37

Katritsis D, Heald S, Ahsan A et al, Catheter ablation for successful management of left posterior fascicular tachycardia: an approach guided by recording of fascicular potentials. Heart 1996;75:344-8

Myat A Ahsan A Percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy for the treatment of acute massive pulmonary embolism: case report Thrombosis J. 2007; 5: 20.16

Ellen Berry, Helen Padgett, Melanie Doyle, Arif J Ahsan, Andrew D Staniforth Incidence screening for primary prevention ICDs based on UK guidelines following STEMI 2012 Br J Cardiol 2012;19:170–2

Storey RF, Angiolillo DJ, Bonaca MP, Thomas M, Judge HM, Rollini F, Franchi F, Ahsan AJ, Bhatt DL, Kuder J, Steg PJ, Cohen M, Muthasamy R, Braunwald E, Sabatine MS,. Platelet Inhibition with Ticagrelor 60 mg Versus 90 mg Twice Daily in the PEGASUS-TIMI 54 Trial JACC 2015 67;1155-7

Thomas M, Angiolillo DJ, Bonaca MP, Ajjan RA, Judge HM, Rollini F, Franchi F, Ahsan AJ, Bhatt DL, Kuder J, Steg PJ, Cohen M, Muthasamy R, Sabatine MS, Storey RF. Consistent platelet inhibition with ticagrelor 60 mg twice-daily following myocardial infarction regardless of diabetes status. Thrombosis and Haemostasis 2017 117;940-7

Courses offered to GPs

Talks on atrial fibrillation, arrhythmias, coronary intervention, devices including pacemakers and ICDs