Prof. Rob Kinsley

Prof. Rob Kinsley
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Experience: 54 years of experience
Hospital: Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, Durban

About

About Prof. Rob Kinsley Prof. Rob Kinsley is a senior and an immensely respectable Cardiothoracic surgeon with a vast experience of +54 years in the field. He is the founder member of the World Society of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery and is also the founder and Chairman of The Children’s Cardiac Foundation of Africa. Dr. Kinsley did his MBBch in 1963 from the Uninversity of the Witwatersrand and then in 1968 did his residency programme at the same university. Later in 1973, he completed his fellowship from the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine. His expertise includes performing patent uctus arteriosus, atrial septal defect, truncus arteriosus repair, hypoplastic left heart repair, total anomalous pulmonary venous return correction, coarctation of the aorta repair, tricuspid atresia repair, Tetralogy of Fallot, VSD, tricuspid arteriosus repair and the transposition of the great vessels repair in paediatrics. In adults, he performs, CAD, heart valve disease, CABG, heart transplants, coronary angioplasty and stenting among such other procedures. Dr. Kinsley has pioneered various initiatives in his chosen area of work. He has received a couple of awards for his work in the field of cardiac and cardiothoracic surgery.  Dr. Kinsley has a few research papers in his name.

List of Treatments

  • Arrhythmia Treatment with Ablation and Pacemakers
  • Coronary Artery Surgery
  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Treatment
  • Cardiac OPD Procedures
  • ECG-Treadmill Test TMT
  • 24 Hour Holter Monitoring
  • Ambulatory BP Monitoring (ABPM)
  • Echocardiography with Color Doppler
  • Stress Echocardiographyn
  • Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (MPI) Test
  • Thallium Test – Nuclear Stress Test
  • 64 Slice CT Angiography
  • PET Scan
  • Off Pump beating CABG LV restoration
  • surgery
  • Valve Repair Replacement
  • Atrial Fibrillation Surgery
  • Ross Procedure
  • Cardiac Tumour Treatment
  • Aortic Dissection Repair Surgery
  • Minimal access surgeries for valves
  • ASD (Atrial Septal Defect) Closure
  • Neonatal and Infant cardiac surgeries
  • Complex congenital heart surgeriesg
  • TAPVC – Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Repair Arterial Switch
  • Single Ventricle Defects Surgery
  • ECMO Support
  • heart disease
  • Device Closure- ASD VSD
  • Balloon Septostomy
  • Balloon Valvuloplasty – Aortic
  • Pulmonary and Mitral
  • Fetal Echocardiogram
  • Coronary Angiogram
  • Peripheral Angiogram
  • PTCA-Percutaneous Transluminal
  • Coronary Angioplasty
  • Aortic Stent Grafting
  • EPS-Electrophysiological
  • Radiofrequency Ablation
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Single Chamber
  • Biventricular Pacing
  • AICD
  • PTMC – Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy
  • Heart Bypass Surgery (CABG)
  • Angiography
  • Aortic Valve Replacement
  • Mitral Valve Replacement
  • VSD Closure (Adult) Surgery
  • Heart Double Valve Replacement
  • PPI-Permanent Pacemaker Implant – Double Chamber
  • CRT- D Implant (Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy)
  • PDA Device Closure
  • Single Bypass and Valve Replacement
  • Valve Replacement
  • Congenital Heart Disorder CHD
  • Heart Bypass – Minimally Invasive CABG
  • Heart Implants
  • Heart Surgery
  • Rotational Atherectomy
  • Redo CABG
  • Angioplasty – 1 Stent
  • Angioplasty – 2 Stent
  • Aortic Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve
  • Aortic Valve replacement – Tissue Valve
  • Mitral Valve replacement – Mechanical Valve
  • Mitral Valve replacement – Tissue Valve
  • Aortic Valve Repair
  • Mitral Valve Repair
  • VP Shunting – Programmable Device
  • AV Canal repair
  • Bentall procedure
  • PDA Ligation
  • CRT – D (MRI Compatible)
  • CRT – D (MRI Non-Compatible)
  • CRT – P
  • Transarterial Radioembolization – TARE
  • ICD Implantation
  • Cardiac catheterization
  • Balloon mitral valvotomy
  • Truncus Arterious Repair
  • Cardiac ablation
  • TAVI
  • LVAD

Work Experience

Consultant, Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, Durban

Consultant, Mediclinic, Johannesburg.

Special Interest

Hypoplastic Left Heart repair
Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) repair
Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) repair
Truncus Arteriosus repair
Transposition of the Great Vessels repair
Tetralogy of Fallot repair
Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) repair
Heart transplants
Heart valve disease
Coronary artery disease