Cardiologist
Dato’ Dr Yap Yee Guan
Sunway Medical Centre
Procedure Focus:
- Complex percutaneous coronary intervention (angioplasty & stenting)
- Diagnostic right and left heart cardiac catheterisations (trans-femoral & trans-radial)
- Percutaneous device closure of atrial septal defect (ASD)
- Percutaneous device closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO)
- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) implantation
- Single, dual-chamber and biventricular pacemaker implantations
- Loop recorder implantation
- Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) pressure wire study
- Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) coronary imaging
- Optical coherence tomography (OCT) coronary imaging
- Percutaneous embolisation of coronary arterio-venous fistula
- Percutaneous transvenous mitral valvuloplasty
- Renal denervation
- Renal artery angiogram and stenting
- Inferior Vena Cava filter insertion
- Pericardiocenteses
- D/C cardioversion
- Intra-aortic balloon pump insertion
- Transthoracic echocardiogram
- Transoesophageal echocardiogram
- Multi-slice coronary CT scan
- Non-invasive cardiac investigations: Electrocardiogram Holter recordings, treadmill and pharmacological stress tests, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, tilt-table testing, metabolic exercise testing, heart-rate variability study
Clinical Focus:
- Coronary artery disease screening and treatment
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Arrhythmia
- Sudden Cardiac death
- Valvular heart disease
- Heart failure
- Resistant hypertension
- Preventive cardiology
Certification & Qualification:
- DIMP
- BMedSci (Hons) (Nottm)
- MBBS (Nottm)
- MD (Lond)
- CCT (UK) (Cardiology & Int Medicine) Eur Cardiol (Europe)
- AM
- FAMS (S’pore)
- FRCP (Glasg)
- FRCP (Edin)
- FRCP (Lond)
- FESC (Europe)
- FSCAI (USA)
- FAHA (USA)
- FACC (USA)
Language:
- English
- Bahasa Malaysia
- Mandarin
- Hokkien
- Cantonese
