Professor Alexander Kempny - Guys and St Thomas Specialist Care

Clinical expertise

Dr Alexander Kempny has clinical expertise in:

adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) and pulmonary hypertension (PH)
heart valve disease
coronary artery disease
echocardiography, including transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE), transoesophageal echocardiogram (TOE) and stress echocardiography
heart failure and intensive care management of ACHD and PH patients
exercise physiology

Dr Kempny leads the adult congenital heart disease and pulmonary hypertension intervention programme at Royal Brompton Hospital and performs a range of procedures in adults and children, including:

atrial septal defect, patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure, ventricular septal defect (VSD), patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure and coarctation of the aorta (CoA) stenting
percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (both Melody and Edwards-Sapien valves)
percutaneous valve-in-valve implantation in atrio-ventricular valve position
balloon valvuloplasty
balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA)
paravalvular leak closure
closure of vascular malformations
coronary angiography and cardiac catheterisation, with thermodilution and direct Fick method for accurate assessment of haemodynamics, vasoreactivity testing
3D reconstructions and 3D printing for advanced planning of percutaneous procedures

Locations

Our specialist provides care at these locations:

Royal Brompton Hospital

Royal Brompton Hospital is at the forefront of advancing heart and lung care, including developing new minimally invasive heart procedures and lung cancer treatments

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Biography

Dr Alexander Kempny trained in cardiology and internal medicine at the University Hospital of Muenster, Germany, and at Royal Brompton Hospital.

He received his PhD in Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

Dr Kempny is fully trained in general adult cardiology. Before joining Royal Brompton Hospital as a consultant, he was consultant cardiologist at the Barts Heart Centre between 2015-16. In 2016-2017, he was a visiting consultant cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, the main teaching hospital for Oxford University.

Research

Dr Alexander Kempny’s research is focused on clinical cardiology and the analysis of outcomes in cardiology including:

congenital heart disease
pulmonary hypertension
valvular heart disease
exercise physiology
percutaneous cardiac interventions

Publications

Dr Alexander Kempny has authored more than 100 publications in leading journals including:

Circulation
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
European Heart Journal
Heart
International Journal of Cardiology
New England Journal of Medicine

Memberships

A fellow at the European Society of Cardiology Find out more

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