Professor Alexander Kempny

Prof Kempny is a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. He specialises in general cardiology and congenital heart disease. Prof Kempny has a wealth of experience across various cardiology domains, including adult congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, echocardiography, heart failure, and exercise physiology.

Areas of special interest

Professor Kempny has many years of experience at tertiary university centres, including Barts Heart Centre (former Heart Hospital) at University College London, University Hospital of Muenster in Germany and at Royal Brompton Hospital, with expertise in:

- Adult congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension 

- Valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease

- Echocardiography, including TTE, TOE and stress echocardiography

- Heart failure and intensive care management of ACHD and PH patients

- Exercise physiology.

Professor Kempny leads the adult congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension intervention programme at Royal Brompton Hospital and performs the following procedures in adults and children:

- ASD, PFO, VSD, PDA closure and CoA stenting

- Percutaneous valve implantation (Melody, Edwards-Sapien, MyVal and Venus P-valve)

- Balloon valvuloplasty

- Paravalvular leak closure

- Closure of vascular malformations

- Diagnostic cardiac catheterisation

- 3D reconstructions and 3D printing for advanced planning of percutaneous procedures.

Research interests

Professor Kempny’s research is focused on clinical cardiology and analysis of outcomes in cardiology, including congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, valvular heart disease, exercise physiology and percutaneous cardiac interventions. 

Publications

Professor Kempny has authored more than 200 publications at conferences and in leading journals, including Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, Heart, International Journal of Cardiology and the New England Journal of Medicine, with a Hirsch Index of 42. 

He is a reviewer for major cardiovascular journals, including Circulation, European Heart Journal, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Heart, International Journal of Cardiology and regularly lectures at national and international conferences.