Dr Aigul Baltabaeva

 Professional experience

• More than 30 years of experience
• Consultant cardiologist, The Royal Brompton and Harefield Foundation Trust (July 2012 - present)
• Locum consultant cardiologist, St. George’s Hospital, London (May 2010 - July 2012)
• Specialist registrar, St. George's Hospital, London (January 2009 - April 2010)
• Specialist registrar, Core Laboratory Cardiologist for European Multicenter Study, St George's Hospital London (January 2007 - January 2009)
• Senior clinical physician (equivalent of consultant cardiologist), National Centre of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (January 2002 - January 2003)
• Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology and General Medicine, Kyrgyz State Medical Academy with clinical base at the National Centre of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (January 1999 - January 2000)
• Head of Research Group, ​Kyrgyz State Medical Academy with clinical base at the National Centre of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (January 1999 - January 2000)

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 Sub-specialties

• Heart valve disease
• Hypertension
• Chest pain and breathlessness
• Echocardiography: stress echo, contrast studies
• CMR (cardiac magnetic resonance imaging)
• General cardiology
• Heart risk assessment
• Cardiac cause of stroke in young people

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 Teaching posts

• Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology and General Medicine, Kyrgyz State Medical Academy with clinical base at the National Centre of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (January 1999 - January 2000)
• Head of Research Group, Kyrgyz State Medical Academy with clinical base at the National Centre of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (January 1999 - January 2000)

 Education

• FESC, European Society of Cardiology (2010)
• EAE Echo Accreditation, European Association of Echocardiology (2009)
• ​SPQ (MRCP equilvalent), Ministry of Health Kyrgyz Republic (2000)
• ​PhD - the incidence of arrhythmias in hypertensive heart disease and the effect of antihypertensive treatment on recurrence of atrial fibrillation, Supreme Scientific Committee of Kyrgyz Republic (2000) 
• CCT in General Cardiology, National Centre of Cardiology (Kyrgyz Republic) (1995)
• ​MBBS, MD (Hons), Kyrgyz State Medical Institute (1993)

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 Publications and conferences

• 1. Eshan Ashcroft, Otar Lazariashvili, Jonathan Belsey, Max Berrill, Pankaj Sharma and Aigul Baltabaeva. Right ventricular ejection fraction as predictor of outcome in acute heart failure using RV ellipsoid model: A retrospective analysis of a prospective cross-sectional study. JRSM Cardiovascular Disease, 2021, Volume 10: 1–7
• 2. M Berrill , J Karaj , G Zamfir , J Coleman , R Mason , S Akbar , S Sharma , F Sheehan, K Dhamija, FSaltissi , A Baltabaeva & S Saikia. Chest radiographs may assist in predicting the outcome in the early phase of Covid-19. UK district general hospital experience of Covid-19 first wave, Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2020.
• 3. S. Sulemane, S.R. Haley, U.A. Stock, R. Chester, A. Baltabaeva. Huge thrombus attached to implantable cardioverter defibrillator line resulting in severe tricuspid inflow obstruction. European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, April 2020.
• 4. T.Mittal, L. Reichmuth, S. Bhattacharyya, M. Jain, A. Baltabaeva, S. Rahman Haley, S. Mirsadraee, V. Panoulas, T. Kabir, E. Nicol, M. Dalby, Q Long. Inconsistency in aortic stenosis severity between CT and echocardiography: prevalence and insights into mechanistic differences using computational fluid dynamics. BMJ. Open Heart. July, 2019.
• 5. Sabry H; Baltabaeva A; Gkikas A et al. Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement Using Rapid Deployment Aortic Valve Prosthesis. Harefield Hospital Experience. Central Asian Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, May, 2019.
• 6. Barron AJ, Aijigitov T, Baltabaeva A. Is it time to change? Portable echocardiography demonstrates high prevalence of abnormalities in self-presenting members of a rural community in Kyrgyzstan. JRSM. June, 2018:1-7.
• 7. Bhattacharyya S, Ilsley CD, Baltabaeva A. Disintegration of polyvinyl alcohol membrane covering atrial septal defect closure device. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2015 Oct;16(10):1153.
• 8. Bhattacharyya S, Mittal T, Abayalingam M, Kabir T, Dalby M, Cleland J, Baltabaeva A, Rahman Haley S. Classification of Aortic Stenosis By Flow and Gradient Patterns Provides Insights into the Pathophysiology of Disease. Accepted to Angiology, Sept 2015
• 9. Shanmugam N, Prada-Delgado O, Campos AG, Grimster A, Valencia O, Baltabaeva A, Jones S, Anderson L. Rate-adaptive AV delay and exercise performance following cardiac resynchronization therapy. Heart Rhythm. 2012 Nov;9(11):1815-21
• 10. Rösner A, Avenarius D, Malm S, Iqbal A, Baltabaeva A, Sutherland GR, Bijnens B, Myrmel T. Persistent dysfunction of viable myocardium after revascularization in chronic ischaemic heart disease: implications for dobutamine stress echocardiography with longitudinal systolic strain and strain rate measurements. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2012 Sep;13(9):745-55.

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 Prizes and awards

• IDB Scholarship, Islamic Development Bank Post-Doctoral Fellowship (open to all Sciences). There were only 93 successful applicants from more than 20,000 applications representing 35 countries over the period of five years. (2002)
• President’s Award, Annual Awards for Progress in Scientific Research (all branches of Science) (2002)

 Professional membership

• Fellow of Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) (2015)
• British Society of Cardiology (2014)
• European Society of Cardiology (2010)
• European Association of Echocardiography (2007)
• British Echocardiography Society (2006)
• ​Association of Doctors of Internal Medicine of Kyrgyz Republic (1995)

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