Dr Antony Hermuzi is a consultant paediatric and adult congenital cardiologist at the Freeman Hospital’s Children’s Heart Unit where he specialises in congenital catheter intervention, transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation, heart failure in congenital heart disease, single ventricle physiology and mechanical circulatory support.
Dr Hermuzi was educated at University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He then trained in paediatrics in the Yorkshire and Northern Deaneries and then congenital cardiology in Newcastle upon Tyne.
He undertook additional training in congenital heart disease and cardiac catheterisation at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada (2014-2015) and a post CCT fellowship in congenital catheter intervention at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (2016-2017).
He was appointed as Consultant Paediatric and ACHD Cardiologist at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne in 2017.
Dr Hermuzi is an Associate Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University, member of the British Congenital Cardiac Association, Association for European Paediatric Cardiology and the Paediatric Interventional Cardiology Early career society.
Research
Outcome for children following admission to hospital with a first episode of heart failure, due to heart muscle disease, in the ventricular assist device (VAD) era.
Rico-Armada A, Crossland DS, Coats L, Reinhardt Z, Hermuzi A, Seller N, Hasan A, O’Sullivan JJ. Cardiol Young. 2019 Jul;29(7):888-892.
Outcome following heart transplant assessment in adults with congenital heart disease.
Crossland DS, Jansen K, Parry G, Harper A, Perri G, Davidson A, De Rita F, Hermuzi A, Nassar M, Seller N, MacGowan GA, Hasan A, O’Sullivan JJ, Coats L. Heart. 2019 Nov;105(22):1741-1747.
Early experience of transcatheter correction of superior sinus venosus atrial septal defect with partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage
Riahi M, Velasco Forte MN, Byrne N, Hermuzi A, Jones M, Baruteau AE, Valverde I, Qureshi SA, Rosenthal E.EuroIntervention. 2018 Oct 20;14(8):868-876
Duct Stenting Versus Modified Blalock-Taussig Shunt in Neonates with Duct-Dependent Pulmonary Blood Flow: Associations with Clinical Outcomes in a Multicenter National Study
Bentham JR, Zava NK, Harrison WJ, Shauq A, Kalantre A, Derrick G, Chen RH, Dhillon R, Taliotis D, Kang SL, Crossland D, Adesokan A, Hermuzi A, Kudumula V, Yong S, Noonan P, Hayes N, Stumper O, Thomson JDR.
Circulation. 2018 Feb 6;137(6):581-588. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.028972.
Restrictive cardiomyopathy or constrictive pericarditis: an unresolved conundrum
Ho G, Peng E, Hermuzi A & Hasan A. Published, World Journal of Congenital Heart Surgery, 2018 May;9(3):360-363
Interventional Correction of Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defect and Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage: Procedural Planning Using 3D Printed Models
Velasco Forte MN, Byrne N, Valverde I, Gomez Ciriza G, Hermuzi A, Prachasilchai P, Mainzer G, Pushparajah K, Henningsson M, Hussain T, Qureshi S, Rosenthal E.
JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2018 Feb;11(2 Pt 1):275-278.
Outcomes of Blalock-Taussig Shunts in current era: A single center experience
Sasikumar N, Hermuzi A, Fan CS, Lee KJ, Chaturvedi R, Hickey E, Honjo O, Van Arsdell GS, Caldarone CA, Agarwal A, Benson L.
Congenit Heart Dis. 2017 Dec;12(6):808-814.
Outcome after transcatheter occlusion of patent ductus arteriosus in infants less than 6 kgs: A national study from UK and Ireland
Kang SL, Jivanji S, Mehta C, Tometzki AJ, Derrick G, Yates R, Khambadkone S, De Giovanni J, Stumper O, Dhillon R, Bhole V, Slavik Z, Rigby M, Noonan P, Smith B, Knight B, Richens T, Wilson N, Walsh K, James A, Thomson J, Bentham J, Hayes N, Nazir S, Adwani S, Shauq A, Ramaraj R, Duke AK, Taliotis D, Kudumula V, Yong SF, Morgan G, Rosenthal E, Krasemann T, Qureshi S, Crossland DS, Hermuzi A, Martin RP
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2017 Dec 1;90(7):1135-1144.
Impact of mode of failure and end-organ dysfunction on the survival of adult Fontan patients undergoing cardiac transplantation
Murtuza B, Hermuzi A, Crossland DS, Parry G, Lord S, Hudson M, Chaudhari MP, Haynes S, O’Sullivan JJ & Hasan A
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2017 Jan;51(1):135-141.
Hybrid transatrial stent insertion for left atrial decompression in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome with intact atrial septum
Hermuzi A, McBrien A, De Rita F, McCheyne A, Griselli M, O’Sullivan JJ, Hasan A & Crossland DS
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jan 1;87(1):109-16.
