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Rafid Fayadh Al-Aqeedi

Rafid Fayadh Al-Aqeedi

M.B.CH./Higher Diploma in Pediatrics and pediatric cardiology

Degrees

  • MB ChB (Baghdad / Iraq)
  • DM (Diploma in Medicine-Baghdad / Iraq)
  • FIBMS (Board in Medicine / Baghdad / Iraq)
  • MRCP (London / UK) (Member of Royal College of Physician)
  • DM (Diploma in Interventional Cardiology, Milano / Italy)
  • FACC (Fellow of American College of Cardiology)
  • FESC (Fellow of European Society of Cardiology)

 

Roles

  • Consultant interventional cardiologist-Surgical Specialty Hospital-Erbil

Cardiac Center

  • Head of Interventional Cardiology Department
  • Director of Erbil Center of Kurdistan Cardiology Fellowship Program (Kurdistan Board in Cardiology)

 

Publications

Published Books (3 books)

  1. Book title “Myocarditis” 2011, Al-Aqeedi RF, ISBN 979-953-307-018-5, In-Tech publishing, Vienna, Austria.
  2. Book title “Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients with a Prior Coronary Artery Bypass Graft” 2014, Rafid Fayadh Al-Aqeedi, Jassim Al Suwaidi, Erbil / Kurdistan, Iraq) ISBN: 978-1-62948-584-3, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York.

Published Articles

  1. Majwal TK, Ismail A, Al-Aqeedi R. Renal artery stenosis associated with saccular aneurysm and arterio-venous fistula. J Invas Cardiol 2002;14:411-413.
  2. Majwal TK, Ismail A, Fayadh Rafid. et al. Immediate and mid-term outcome of unprotected left main coronary artery stenting. JACC. Supplement, May 1, 2002 vol.39 no.9,
  3. Majwal TK, Ismail A, Fayadh Rafid. et al. Self-expandable stent in adults with coarctation of aorta. JACC Supplement, May 1, 2002 vol.39, no.9.
  4. Al-Aqeedi RF, Alnabti AD. Drug-eluting stent implantation for acute myocardial infarction during pregnancy with use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor, aspirin and clopidogrel. J Invas Cardiol 2008;20:E146E149.
  5. Al-Aqeedi RF, Kamha A, Al-Aani FK, Al-Ani AA. Salmonella myocarditis in a young adult patient presenting with acute pulmonary edema, rhabdomyolysis, and multi-organ failure. J Cardiol. 2009. Dec;54(3):475-9.
  6. Al-Aani FK, Abusalah S, Al-Aqeedi R, Ibrahim A. Salmonella meningitis in an adult with type B viral hepatitis and an incidental schwannoma. BMJ Case Reports 2009: bcr1120081209.
  7. BMJ Case Reports 2009: bcr1120081209. Al-Aqeedi RF, Alqahtani A. Pulmonary hypertension insights from experience of the last decade and highlights from the guidelines. Heart Views 2010;162-173.
  8. Al-Aqeedi RF. Acute Myocardical Infarction in Young Patients. The Bulletin of The Iraqi Cardiothoracic Society June 2011 Volume 3 No. 1.
  9. Ali WM, Al-Aqeedi RF, Gehani AA. Acute myocardial infarction in a young adult male associated with the use of smokeless tobacco (Sweka). Heart Views Journal 30-03-2011.
  10. Al-Aqeedi RF, Ali WM, Al-Ani F, Abdulrahman YS, Alnabti A. A Blunt Chest Trauma Causing Left Anterior Descending Artery Dissection and Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated by Deferred Angioplasty. Heart Views Journal 01-12-2010.
  11. Al-Aqeedi R, Sulaiman K, Al Suwaidi J, Al Habib K, El-Menyar A, Panduranga P, Al-Shiek-Ali A, Al Saif S. Characteristics, management and outcomes of patients with acute coronary syndrome and prior coronary artery bypass surgery: findings from the second Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2011.
  12. Al-Aqeedi RF, Alnabti A, Al-Ani F, Dabdoob W, Abdullatef WK. Successful Delivery by a Cesarean Section in a Parturient with Severe Dilated Cardiomyopathy, an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator, and a Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot. Heart Views 2011;12:26-31
  13. Al-Aqeedi R, Asaad N, Al-Qahtani A, Singh R, Al Binali HA, Acute Coronary Syndrome in Patients with Prior Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Observations from a 20-Year Registry in a Middle-Eastern Country. PLoS ONE 7(7): e40571. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040571
  14. Al-Aqeedi RF, Al Suwaidi J, Singh R, Al Binali HA. Does prior coronary artery bypass surgery alter the gender gap in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome? A 20-year retrospective cohort study. BMJ Open 2012;2: e001969. doi:10.1136/ bmj open-2012-001969.
  15. Al-Aqeedi RF, Abdullatef W, Dabdoob W, Bener A, Al Binali HA, Gehani A. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome components, individually and in combination, in male patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome, without previous diagnosis of diabetes mellitus Libyan J Med 2013, 8: 20185 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ljm.v8i0.20185
  16. Al-Aqeedi RF, Al Suwaidi J. Outcomes of patients with prior coronary artery bypass graft who presented with acute coronary syndrome Expert Rev. Cardiovasc. Ther. Early online, 1–18 (2014).
  17. Zrar HR, Al-aqeedi RF. Risk Stratification and Clinical Eligibility of Invasive vs. Noninvasive Strategy in the Management of Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Admitted to Hawler Teaching Hospital. ZJPAS (2018),30 (5); 56-70 http://dx.doi.org/10.21271/ZJPAS.30.5.5
  18. Amanj WA, Al-Aqeedi RF. Angiographic characteristics, in-hospital, thirty-day, and one-year outcomes in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction, undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11239239. JCP, Volume 21 Issue 05. ISSN 1462 2815
  19. Saeed AOM, Al-aqeedi RF. Prevalence of Cardiac Complications among Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients in Erbil. JMSP 2022; 8(1):93- 56
  20. Al-Aqeedi RF, Mauuf G, Nabi E (2022) Refractory electrical storm in coronary artery disease patient, challenges of dying heart. J Cardiovasc Med Cardiol 9(1): 001-005. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.17352/24552976.000176

Affiliations (other than cardiac center)

  • Hawler Teaching Hospital
  • lecturer & examiner for graduate, diploma & board candidate of internal medicine & cardiology since 1997 to-date

Area of expertise and interest

  • Journals reviewer, editor in chief and thesis supervisor
  • Adult Interventional Cardiology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Research in Adult Cardiology and internal medicine