Dr Kalpa De Silva, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

Dr Kalpa De Silva

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

Dr Kalpa De Silva MBBS PhD FRCP FACC

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

MBBS PhD FRCP FACC

Dr Kalpa De Silva

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist MBBS PhD FRCP FACC

MBBS PhD FRCP FACC

Areas of expertise

  • Chest pain
  • High blood pressure
  • Palpitations
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Angina

Address

About Dr Kalpa De Silva

GMC number: 6103405

Year qualified: 2004

Place of primary qualification: University of London

Dr Kalpa De Silva is a consultant interventional cardiologist, practicing at St. Thomas' Hospital, London. Dr De Silva qualified from St. Bartholomew's & The Royal London Medical School in 2004, became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2007, and subsequently obtained a PhD in cardiovascular medicine from King’s College London in 2014.

His general and interventional cardiology training was undertaken at King’s College and St Thomas’s Hospitals, London. He also completed an international fellowship in complex coronary intervention at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He is experienced in a range of cardiac conditions and has a particular interest in the treatment of coronary artery disease. He specialises in managing coronary disease using minimally invasive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) techniques. He is interested in optimising his patients’ outcomes by using physiology and imaging modalities and treats patients with complex coronary disease including multi-vessel disease and chronic total occlusions.

Dr De Silva remains active in academic research within his field. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College London and was previously a nominee for the American College of Cardiology’s young investigator award. His research interests include the management of heart attacks, angina, and cardiogenic shock, as well as the use of mechanical circulatory support to assist during stenting procedures. He has published in excess of 50 peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored books on a variety of topics in interventional cardiology. He is also a regular invitee to leading national and international conferences.

Dr De Silva treats conditions such as angina, chest pain, heart attacks, and microvascular angina. He performs procedures including coronary angiography, stent insertion (PCI), complex coronary angioplasty, and the treatment of multi-vessel coronary disease and chronic total occlusions.

Areas of expertise

  • 24 hour blood pressure monitor
  • Acute coronary syndrome (ACS)
  • Angina
  • Angioplasty
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Atrial fibrillation
  • Calcium coronary score
  • Cardiac CT
  • Cardiac MRI
  • Cardiac screening in sport
  • Cardiac shock wave therapy (CSWT)
  • Cardio-pulmonary exercise testing
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Cardioversion
  • Chest pain
  • Chronic total occlusion
  • Congestive heart failure
  • Coronary angiography
  • Coronary artery disease
  • Coronary stent insertion
  • CT coronary angiogram
  • Dizziness
  • Dvla assessments
  • Dyslipidaemia
  • Ecg (electrocardiogram)
  • Ecg holter monitor
  • Endomyocardial biopsy
  • Exercise stress test
  • Exercise testing
  • Fainting
  • Health assessments
  • Heart attack
  • Heart failure
  • Heart scan
  • Heart valve problems
  • High blood pressure
  • High cholesterol
  • Hypertension (high blood pressure)
  • Intravascular ultrasound
  • Low blood pressure
  • Myocardial perfusion scan
  • Oedema
  • Palpitations
  • Pericarditis
  • Pressure wire study (coronary angiography)
  • Refractory angina management
  • Rotablation (coronary arteries)
  • Spontaneous coronary artery dissection
  • Stenting procedures
  • Stress echocardiogram
  • Unstable angina

Professional memberships

General Medical Council