Mr Toufan Bahrami, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Mr Toufan Bahrami
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Mr Toufan Bahrami MD, FRCS (CTh)
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
Mr Toufan Bahrami
Consultant Cardiac Surgeon MD, FRCS (CTh)
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About Mr Toufan Bahrami
GMC number: 6024981
Year qualified: 2000
Place of primary qualification: Universite de Paris VI (UFR de Médecine Broussais Hôtel Dieu)
Mr Toufan Bahrami is a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Harefield Hospital, where he leads the minimally invasive and endoscopic cardiac surgery service. He has considerable expertise in endoscopic minimally invasive heart surgery, particularly mitral valve repair surgery and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG).
Mr Bahrami qualified at Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital in Paris, France, where he trained under pioneering doctors such as Professor Alain Carpentier, Sir Magdi Yacoub, and Professor Alain Cabrol. His successful career has seen him complete between 3,000 and 4,000 surgical procedures on the heart. These utilised innovative surgical techniques and include the UK's first endoscopic vein harvesting surgery, the first Inspiris Resilia aortic valve implantation using a minimally invasive technique, and the first worldwide mitral valve repair, valve repair ablation, and CABG using a minimally invasive technique. He was also the first surgeon to perform a double-lung transplant from a non-heart beating donor.
Mr Bahrami continues to have a strong clinical research programme focusing on developing new technology in cardiac surgery. His work has been widely published in medical journals, making him a highly respected leader in his field.
Areas of expertise
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Cardiac surgery
- Endoscopic valve replacements
- Endoscopic invasive CABG
- Mitral valve repair
- Endoscopic surgical
- Heart transplantation
- lung transplantation
Professional memberships
Articles by Mr Toufan Bahrami
10 years experience with maastricht category iii donation after circulatory death (dcd) in lung transplantation (ltx) - analysis of early and long-term results in large single-centre cohort
The role of extracorporeal life support in the management with severe idiopathic pulmonary artery hypertension undergoing lung transplantation: are those patients referred too late?
Regional left atrial function assessment using tissue doppler imaging following left atrial appendage exclusion as part of minimally invasive thoracoscopic surgical ablation
Surgical pen testing during thoracoscopic ablation is effective to assess electrical conduction block when multi-point testing strategy is utilised
Catheter ablation vs. thoracoscopic surgical ablation in long-standing persistent atrial fibrillation: casa-af randomized controlled trial
Midterm follow up of heart transplantation with routine ex-vivo normothermic preservation with adverse donor - recipient risk profile
Long-term survival following the freestyle versus homograft aortic root replacement. results from a prospective randomized trial
On-pump and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting for patients needing at least two grafts: comparative outcomes at 20 years
Midterm followup of heart transplantation with ex vivo normothermic preservation using extended criteria donor hearts