St Joseph’s hospital provides Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for a UK multi-centre trial in patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Date Posted: 9th January 2025
St Joseph’s hospital has been invited by a research team from the Royal United Hospital in Bath to provide Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CMR) as part of a United Kingdom wide multi-central trial called the PHoenix trial.
The study’s primary objective is to evaluate an implantable device which is inserted into the pulmonary artery, and its ability to record physiological data such as total pulmonary resistance, cardiac output and stroke volume. CMR imaging is utilised to correlate these findings. During the trial the patients receive two different drug therapy treatments and required 4 separate CMR scans at pre-determined time points.
Professor Jay Suntharalingam, PHoenix trial Co-investigator & Consultant Respiratory Physician, Respiratory Dept, Royal United Hospitals Bath was impressed by the service St Jospeh’s hospital could provide and commented, “We’ve been really impressed with how flexible St Joseph’s has been and the high-quality Cardiac MRI service they provide. Royal United Hospital, Bath have been one of the first 3 hospitals to recruit to the PHoenix study in the UK, so we are very thankful for St Joseph’s collaboration.”
Benny Lawton, Executive Cardiac MR Radiographer at St Joseph’s hospital had these words to say about the research aspect of the CMR service, “It has been a great experience for the CMR team to be involved in this novel and exciting multi-centre translational research trial. The RUH team have been a joy to work with, as to have the clinical trials team at the lead centre in Sheffield. I imagine it is uncommon for a private hospital to be involved in such research but here at St Joseph’s we have the perfect CMR facilities and expertise to offer an excellent service. We have just commenced another CMR research study and gained great feedback already about our image quality from the lead centre. Hopefully, I will be able to provide an account on this shortly.”
