Radiology consultants
Dr. Muhammad Affan Zamir
Name, qualifications:
Dr. Muhammad Affan Zamir, MBBS BSc FRCR EBIR
Practising at:
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Specialty:
Clinical Radiology
Sub-specialty:
Musculoskeletal, Gastrointestinal and Interventional Radiology
Special clinical interests:
- Vascular & non-Vascular Intervention, Musculoskeletal Imaging & Intervention
Current posts (NHS, University):
Consultant radiologist at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Year of first medical qualification:
2009
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
- Fellow of the Royal College of Radiology
- Member of the British Society of Interventional Radiology
- Member of the Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiological Society of Europe
- Member of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists
- Member of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology
- Member of the European Society of Radiology
- Member of the British Medical Association
Contact details:
- Secretary's name: Eileen Wingfield
- Secretary's telephone number: 01923217523
- Secretary's email address: westherts.radiology@nhs.net
Background:
Dr. Zamir is a Consultant Radiologist with dual-accreditation in Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology and the Clinical Lead for Interventional Radiology at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He qualified with a distinction from the Imperial College School of Medicine and completed general & subspecialist radiological training at Imperial College having trained at several centres of international excellence including St. Mary’s Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Royal Marsden Hospital and Royal Free Hospital.
He has introduced multiple emergency & elective services including embolisation for internal bleeding, endovascular management of post-partum haemorrhage, percutaneous transhepatic biliary decompression, transjugular liver biopsies and uterine fibroid embolisation. He also has an interest in cardiac, gastrointestinal & musculoskeletal imaging and undertakes all manner of image-guided musculoskeletal intervention.
Areas of Expertise:
Interventional Radiology
- Vascular
- Angiography, angioplasty and stent insertions for peripheral vascular disease including complex revascularisation for critical limb ischaemia
- Endovascular management of visceral and peripheral aneurysms
- Embolisation for bleeding control (haemoptysis, post-traumatic, genitourinary and gastrointestinal bleeds)
- Hepatobiliary procedures
- Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC)
- Biliary drainage and stenting
- Transjugular liver biopsies
- Genitourinary
- Uterine artery embolisation for fibroids and adenomyosis
- Pelvic congestion syndrome and pelvic varicose vein treatment
- Varicocele embolisation
- Renal angiomyolipoma treatment
- Nephrostomy and ureteric stenting
- Oncology
- Simple and complex vascular access including portacaths and central venous catheters
- Complex deep biopsies including lung and liver
- Musculoskeletal
- Image-guided joint, bursal, nerve root and facet joint injections
Diagnostic Radiology
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Cardiac
- CT coronary angiography
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Vascular
- Duplex of neck, abdominal and peripheral vasculature
- CT and MR angiography
- Musculoskeletal
- Multi-modality imaging of orthopaedic and rheumatological disease including plain film, CT, MR and ultrasound
- Imaging of sports injuries
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Gastrointestinal
- Multi-modality imaging of hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease
- Fluoroscopic examinations
