Professor Robert Byrne is Chair of Cardiovascular Research at the Royal College of Surgeons and Director of Cardiology at the Mater Private Hospital, Dublin.
Prof. Byrne’s internship and general medical training was undertaken in the Mater Hospital, Dublin and Mayo Clinic, Arizona. His Cardiology fellowship was in Ireland and at the German Heart Centre, Munich, Germany.
Since then he has held several strategic positions at German Heart Centre, including Consultant Cardiologist and Deputy Director of Cardiology. He returns to Ireland to the role of Director of Cardiology at Mater Private Hospital and RCSI Chair of Cardiovascular Research.
Prof. Byrne’s specialty interests are in the field of general and interventional cardiology. Specific areas of expertise are in cardiac catheterization, angioplasty and stenting, optical coherence tomography imaging, interventions for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (alcohol septal ablation), transcatheter mitral valve repair, left atrial appendage occlusion and patent foramen ovale closure.
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Jun 16, 2023 06:00 am UTC| Health
Most people know that the risk factors for heart disease are high blood pressure, smoking, raised cholesterol and being overweight. However, many people who have a heart attack do not have any of these traditional risk...
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