Director, Division of Cardiology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Director, Division of Cardiology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Prof. Amit Segev is a highly qualified Interventional Cardiologist, with specialization in Catheterization.
His fields of professional interest include:
– Evaluation and treatment of coronary heart disease – diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterization. Pioneered the approach of catheterization through the wrist.
– Catheterization for carotid artery stenosis.
– Treatment and comprehensive evaluation of heart valve diseases – patient evaluation, choice of preferred treatment, transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
– Treatment and evaluation of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Pioneer of the treatment of pulmonary hypertension in the context of chronic embolism. Treatment of acute pulmonary embolism.
Prof. Segev has published 160 peer reviewed papers in prestigious scientific journals.
Clinical interests and expertise include coronary assessment and intervention; Structural heart interventions – transcatheter aortic valve implantation; Hemodynamics; Pulmonary embolism and CTEPH and Carotid interventions.
Prof. Segev is a permanent faculty member and presenter in all major international cardiology congresses with 82 invited lectures (ESC, ACC, TCT, EuroPCR, AHA, ICI).