Dr Vivek Kodoth

Dr Vivek Kodoth is a consultant interventional cardiologist at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital. His sub-speciality interest is coronary intervention and he is one of the high volume coronary interventional cardiologists in the United Kingdom. Dr Kodoth trained in cardiology in Belfast, Northern Ireland and further specialised in coronary intervention with a two year complex coronary intervention fellowship. He was awarded MD from the Queen's University, Belfast and he is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He is a member of British Cardiac Interventional Society (BCIS) and an affiliate member of Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention (SCAI, USA). After his fellowship, he was appointed as a consultant cardiologist with special interest in complex coronary intervention to the Leeds Teaching Hospital, Leeds. In addition, he is an honorary senior lecturer at the Leeds Medical School. Dr Kodoth, relocated to Bournemouth in 2018, after he was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

Dr Vivek Kodoth sees patients privately with general cardiology symptoms/ conditions like chest pain, palpitation, breathlessness, swollen legs, heart valve disease, heart failure, dizziness, fainting episodes, hypertension and abnormal cholesterol level. Furthermore, he sees patients for assessment for fitness to fly for pilots, driving and family screening for inherited cardiac conditions. He performs coronary angiogram, coronary angioplasty with stenting (using wrist artery), complex coronary intervention using rotablation and laser. Moreover, he is proficient in the use of intracoronary imaging using intracoronary ultrasound, OCT and pressure wire assessment to optimise outcomes. Please visit https://dr.kodoth.co.uk for details. Dr Kodoth is the clinical lead for cardiac rehabilitation at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital and he is the president of the Bournemouth Heart Club.

Research and Publications:

Dr Kodoth did research on the management of atrial fibrillation leading to the award of MD from Queen's University, Belfast. He has published extensively in national and international peer reviewed journals. Furthermore, he has been a principal investigator for multi-centric clinic trials.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Coronary angiogram via radial artery (wrist artery)

Complex coronary intervention with stent deplyment

Rotablation for coronary calcium and stent deployment

Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and pressure wire assessment

LASER PCI and stent deployment

Chronic total occlusion (CTO) PCI

Complex coronary intervention with stent deployment