Dr Peter O Kane

Medical qualifications

BSc, MBBS, MRCP, MD

Year of qualification:

1995

Areas of expertise:

General (Internal) Medicine, Cardiology

Practising at:

Bournemouth Hospital

Clinics:

  • Wednesday mornings and evenings by appointment.

Member of:

  • British Cardiac Interventional Society.
  • Royal College of Physicians (London).

Contact details:

01202 704333
01202 726133

Profile:

Dr O'Kane is a General Cardiologist specialising in General Internal Medicine and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention  (PCI) including Transradial and transfemoral balloon angioplasty and stenting.

He also specialises in Intravascular ultrasound to facilitate lesion assessment and optimize stent deployment and pressure wire to determine physiological significance as a lesion to decide if it requires stenting.

In addition he specialises in rotational athrerctomy to treat heavily calcified coronary arteries.

Additional treatments include laser coronary atherectomy,  useful in treating saphenous vein grafting, mild calcified lesions, coronary thrombus and in-stent  restenosis.

Research:

2010               
Jokhi P & O’Kane P, Induction of pulsus alternans following angioplasty in severe heart failure, Eurointervention 2010; 6(1); 171.

2009              
Redwood S & O’Kane P, Laser for PCI,  Chapter 34 in Oxford Textbook of Interventional Cardiology (Book Published May 2010).

2009               
O'Kane P, Xie L, Liu Z, Queen L, Jackson G, Yong J & Ferro A., Aspirin acetylates nitric oxide synthase type 3 in platelets thereby increasing its activity, Cardiovascular Research 2009; 83: 131-139.

2008               
Jokhi P, Talwar S, O’Kane P,  Use of laser atherectomy and IVUS guidance during PCI on a saphenous vein bypass graft with subacute total occlusion, Eurointervention 2008; 4 (Web).

2008               
O’Kane P, Reebye V, Yong J, Stratton P, Jackson, Aspirin and clopidogrel treatment impair nitric oxide biosynthesis by platelets, Journal Molecular & Cellular Cardiology 2008 45; 223-229.

2008               
O'Kane P, Jackson G & Ferro A., Whole body nitric oxide production is not decreased in patients with coronary atherosclerosis but is inversely related to plasma homocysteine, Atherosclerosis: 2008; 196 574-579

2007               
O'Kane P, Blows L, & Redwood S, New Devices Illustrated: The Venture Wire Control Catheter, The British Journal of Cardiology 14 (6) 293-295.

2003               
O'Kane P & Jackson G, Atrial fibrillation (Review), In: M Selby (ed) Clinical General Practice, vol. 1, Ch. 9, pp 43–48, Butterworth Heinemann, Edinburgh, 2004.

2002               
O'Kane P, Queen L, Stratton P, Jackson G & Ferro,  Aspirin modifies nitric oxide synthase activity in platelets: effects of acute versus chronic aspirin treatment, Cardiovascular Research 2003; 59; 152-9.

2001               
O'Kane P & Jackson G., Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly (Review),  Chapter 13 for Cardiology: Current Perspectives, Martin Dunitz, London 2002.

2001               
O'Kane P & Jackson G., Erectile dysfunction: Is there underlying obstructive coronary artery  disease?,  International Journal of Clinical Practice 2001; 55(3):219-220 (63 Citations).

2000               
O'Kane P & Jackson G., Atrial Fibrillation: an update (Review), Update February 2000; 241-249.

1999               
O'Kane P & Jackson G., Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly (Review), Practitioner 1999 Jul, 243(1600):574-80.

Current posts:

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
Nuffield Health Bournemouth Hospital.

Services that this consultant provides:

Coronary Interventions