Dr Andrew Wragg

Profile

Dr Wragg is consultant cardiologist at the Barts Heart Centre, one of the largest cardiac centres in Europe, where he is the Director of Quality and Safety. Dr Wragg qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in 1994 and undertook his postgraduate training Barts Health NHS Trust and the National Institute of Health in America. He was appointed as a consultant and honorary senior lecturer in 2007.

Research

Coronary artery disease, clinical cardiovascular outcomes, patient-reported outcome measures, diagnoses and management of patients with chest pain.

Key Publications

Full list of publications

• Coronary atherosclerotic plaque burden and composition by CT angiography in Caucasian and South Asian patients with stable chest pain.
  Villadsen PR, Petersen SE, Dey D, Zou L, Patel S, Naderi H, Gruszczynska K, Baron J, Davies LC, Wragg A, Bøtker HE, Pugliese F., European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging. 2017; 18(5):556-567.
• Atypical risk factor profile and excellent long-term outcomes of young patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
  Rathod KS, Jones DA, Gallagher S, Rathod VS, Weerackody R, Jain AK, Mathur A, Mohiddin SA, Archbold RA, Wragg A, Knight CJ., European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care. 2016; 5(1):23-32.
• Clinical assessment of patients with chest pain; a systematic review of predictive tools.
  Ayerbe L, González E, Gallo V, Coleman CL, Wragg A, Robson J., BMC cardiovascular disorders. 2016; 16:18.
• The Authors Reply.
  Gallagher SM, Archbold RA, Jones DA, Wragg A, Uppal R, Yaqoob MM., Kidney international. 2015; 88(5):1195-6.
• Appearances can be deceiving.
  Toscano W, Wragg A, Rossi A, Pugliese F., European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging. 2015; 16(9):1049.
• Importance of primary percutaneous coronary intervention for reducing mortality in ST-elevation myocardial infarction complicated by out of hospital cardiac arrest.
  Choudry FA, Weerackody RP, Timmis AD, Wragg A, Mathur A, Sporton S, Mills PG, Jain AK., European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care. 2015; 4(4):378-85.
• Time-trend analyses of bleeding and mortality after primary percutaneous coronary intervention during out of working hours versus in-working hours: an observational study of 11 466 patients.
  Iqbal MB, Khamis R, Ilsley C, Mikhail G, Crake T, Firoozi S, Kalra S, Knight C, Archbold A, Lim P, Mathur A, Meier P, Rakhit RD, Redwood S, Whitbread M, Bromage D, Rathod K, Jones DA, Wragg A, Dalby M, MacCarthy P, Malik IS., Circulation. Cardiovascular interventions. 2015; 8(6):e002206.
• Manual Thrombus Aspiration Is Not Associated With Reduced Mortality in Patients Treated With Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: An Observational Study of 10,929 Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction From the London Heart Attack Group.
  Jones DA, Rathod KS, Gallagher S, Jain AK, Kalra SS, Lim P, Crake T, Ozkor M, Rakhit R, Knight CJ, Iqbal MB, Dalby MC, Malik IS, Whitbread M, Mathur A, Redwood S, MacCarthy PA, Weerackody R, Wragg A., JACC. Cardiovascular interventions. 2015; 8(4):575-84.
• Clinical value of chest pain presentation and prodromes on the assessment of cardiovascular disease: a cohort study.
  Robson J, Ayerbe L, Mathur R, Addo J, Wragg A., BMJ open. 2015; 5(4):e007251.
• Radial primary percutaneous coronary intervention is independently associated with decreased long-term mortality in high-risk ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients.
  Rathod KS, Jones DA, Bromage DI, Gallagher SM, Rathod VS, Kennon S, Knight C, Rothman MT, Mathur A, Smith E, Jain AK, Archbold RA, Wragg A., Journal of cardiovascular medicine (Hagerstown, Md.). 2015; 16(3):170-7.