Clinical expertise
Dr Abtehale Al-Hussaini is an interventional cardiologist and general cardiologist with specialist expertise in complex interventional cardiology, coronary artery disease, women’s heart health, preventive cardiology, lipid management, and metabolic cardiovascular disease.
She has expertise in:
- Complex interventional cardiology
- coronary angiography and diagnostic cardiac catheterisation
- complex coronary angioplasty and high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
- treatment of heavily calcified coronary artery disease
- intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT)
- coronary physiology assessment and pressure wire studies
- intravascular lithotripsy (shockwave therapy)
- rotational atherectomy (rota ablation)
- imaging-guided and physiology-guided coronary intervention
- Preventive cardiology, lipid management and metabolic cardiovascular disease
- high cholesterol and complex lipid disorders
- lipid management and cholesterol optimisation
- familial hypercholesterolaemia
- metabolic syndrome and cardiometabolic disease
- hypertension management
- obesity-related cardiovascular disease
- insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk
- primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention
- Women’s heart health and SCAD specialist
- women’s heart health
- coronary artery disease in women
- microvascular angina and coronary microvascular dysfunction
- spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD)
- fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD)
- pregnancy-associated cardiovascular disease
- hormonal and menopause-related cardiovascular risk
- General cardiology
- chest pain
- arrhythmias and palpitations
- valve disease assessment.
- hypertension
- coronary artery disease
- high cholesterol and lipid disorders
- preventive cardiology and cardiovascular risk assessment
Locations
Our specialist provides care at these locations:
Biography
Dr Al-Hussaini graduated from Imperial College London in 2005 and completed advanced cardiology and interventional cardiology training across leading London teaching hospitals. She subsequently undertook prestigious specialist fellowships in interventional cardiology and complex coronary intervention, developing extensive expertise in the management of coronary artery disease and advanced minimally invasive heart procedures.
Alongside her clinical practice, Dr Al-Hussaini is an internationally recognised academic cardiologist. Following her clinical training, she was awarded the prestigious National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Rare Disease Fellowship to undertake advanced research in spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). Her work has contributed significantly to improving understanding, diagnosis, and management of SCAD both in the UK and internationally.
She has played a leading role in the UK SCAD Registry and continues to contribute to major European research collaborations and international clinical guidance in this field. Her research interests also include HIV-associated cardiovascular disease, aortopathy, and metabolic cardiovascular disease.
She has authored and contributed to important scientific publications and clinical research that have helped shape contemporary cardiovascular practice and improve patient care.
Her awards and distinctions include:
- British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professional Hero Award
- NIHR Best Research Award
- NIHR Rare Disease Fellowship
- European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Scholarship in Health Economics
In addition to her clinical and research work, she is actively involved in postgraduate medical education and international cardiovascular training. She lectures nationally and internationally on interventional cardiology, women’s heart health, preventive cardiology, and SCAD, and has extensive experience teaching across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and West Africa.
She has also worked closely with the Royal College of Physicians in physician education and specialist training and continues to supervise postgraduate research and cardiovascular education programmes internationally.
Research
Dr Abtehale Al-Hussaini has vast clinical and research expertise in women with cardiovascular disease. Her main academic interest is focused on SCAD and aortopathy.
She is one of the UK’s only experts within this field, with an extensive background in leading the UK SCAD registry and the phenotyping study and continues to contribute to the pan European registry.
She also works alongside international partners and collaborators to further research, understand the pathophysiology, and best manage this condition. She has recently led and contributed to significant papers which have formulated guidelines in SCAD.
She continues her research theme in HIV and cardiovascular disease and understanding the pathophysiology. She has published several papers and led on several lectures within this arena.
Her other passion is working on health care reforms in low- and middle-income countries and producing outcome data that helps improve and shape better health care through policy.
Teaching
Alongside academia, Dr Al-Hussaini has an extensive background in teaching and training. She has lectured extensively at national and international levels and universities and trains and teaches postgraduate students in the UK and globally
She supervises research students and contributes to organising annual cardiovascular update courses.
She has been working with, and representing, the Royal College of Physicians in training and teaching. She has extensive teaching experience across the EMEA and West Africa.
