Saib Khogali MB.ChB., MD, FRCP

Dr Khogali is a Coronary, TAVI and Structural Interventional Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton & Harefield and St Thomas' Hospitals. His training has taken him across prestigious institutions including the University of Birmingham, the University of Oxford, and Milan. He has also worked in the United States for 12 months as a senior TAVI proctor. Previously, he served as the Lead for Transcatheter/Structural Heart Interventions at the Heart and Lung Centre, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, where he was deeply involved in pioneering techniques in heart interventions.

Since 2008, Dr Khogali has been at the forefront of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), establishing one of the first TAVI centres in the UK. His experience includes successfully performing over 3000 TAVI cases using various approaches, including trans-femoral, subclavian, direct aortic, and trans-carotid. He has also contributed to the development of valve techniques and performed the first reported combined percutaneous TAVI and EVAR procedures.

Dr Khogali has trained numerous cardiologists in TAVI procedures both locally and internationally and is recognised nationally and internationally as a regular member of international and national faculty at major conferences.

His other structural interventions include:

• Day-case PFO device closure under ICE guidance
• Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
• Paravalvular leak closures using vascular plugs (mitral and aortic)
• Post-infarct VSD closures
• LAAO closure
• Mitral TEER / Tricuspid TEER 

More recently, Dr Khogali established and led the mitral and tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair programme and the LAAO closure service.