Dr Rosie Swallow

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

Specialties

Cardiology

Undergraduate training in London. Junior medical training in Oxford. Cardiology training and intervention training at Southampton University Hospital. Consultant for 10 years at RBCH.

What people can be referred for

General Cardiology - chest pain, palpitations, blood pressure problems, syncope, breathlessness. Ischaemic heart disease. Coronary intervention.

Why I chose my specialties

The ability to follow the evidence base and improve outcomes for patients.

Primary contact

Secretary: Alena Galton

0300 019 6138

Membership of professional bodies

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, British Cardiac Society, British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, European Society of Cardiology, European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Year of registration

1995

Special clinical interests

Coronary Intervention, Elderly Cardiology, Platelet Function, Pulmonary Hypertension

Publications

Thrombelastography: A reliable method for assessing the effects of antiplatelet therapy. - RA Swallow, RA Agarwala, KD Dawkins, NP Curzen
Platelets. 2006 Sep;17(6):385-92.

Thrombelastography: Current clinical applications and its potential role in Interventional Cardiology - AR Hobson, RA Agarwala, RA Swallow, KD Dawkins, NP Curzen Platelets. 2006 Dec;17(8):509-18.

Pressure wire assessments of side branches following stenting NG Bellenger, RA Swallow, KD Dawkins, NP Curzen - Heart. 2007 Feb;93(2):249-50.

Percutaneous Coronary Angioplasty in a District General Hospital: Safe and Effective - The Bournemouth Model - Dominic Kelly, Manas Sinha, Rosie Swallow, Terry Levy, Johannes Radvan, Adrian Rozkovec, Suneel Talwar - British journal of Cardiology October 2008

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the very elderly (>85 years): trends and outcomes. - O Rana, R Moran, P O'Kane, R Swallow, S Talwar, T Levy. - Br J Cardiol 2013;20:27-31

Beyond the balloon: excimer coronary laser atherectomy used alone or in combination with rotational atherectomy in the treatment of chronic total occlusions, non-crossable and non-expansible coronary lesions. - Fernandez JP, Hobson AR, Mckenzie D, Shah N, Sinha MK, Wells TA, Levy TM, Swallow RA, Talwar S, O'Kane PD.
Eurointervention 2013,9(2);243-250

The impact of routine and intravascular ultrasound-guided high-pressure post dilatation after drug-eluting stent deployment. The STent OPtimisation (STOP) study. Omar Rana, DM, MRCP; Nimit C. Shah, MBBS, MRCP, MD; Samuel Wilson, MRCP; Rosie Swallow, FRCP; Peter O'Kane, MD; Terry Levy, BSc, MBChB - Journal of Invasive Cardiology 2014, 269120:640-646

Outcome data

BCIS outcome data (RBCH), NICOR outcome data (personal)

Research

Multiple national and international Coronary Intervention and Cardiology trials