Dr Umar Ashfaq -Cardiologist

06/12/2025

Historic day at Peshawar Institute of Cardiology! We’ve successfully performed Pakistan’s first Hydra Valve TAVI, marking a new chapter in structural heart interventions.
Proud moment for the team and cardiac care in Pakistan.

04/11/2025

NOBLE 10-year data at confirm that IVUS-guided PCI achieves long-term mortality nearly identical to CABG, while angiography-only PCI lags behind. With lower TLR (5% vs 12%) and optimal stent expansion, IVUS defines the future of precision PCI.

01/11/2025

Presented and organised the Monthly Grand Round at the Peshawar Institute of Cardiology on the five-year results of the FAME 3 trial, which compares FFR-guided stenting with the bypass surgery and highlighting how physiology-guided PCI is improving long-term outcomes in multivessel coronary disease compared to bypass/CABG.

01/11/2025

Organized and presented the Monthly Grand Round at the Department of Cardiology, PIC–MTI, on the 5-year outcomes of the FAME 3 trial. The session reviewed NOBLE 10-year and SYNTAX 10-year follow-ups, highlighting how advances in physiology-guided PCI are bridging the long-term outcome gap with CABG in complex coronary artery disease.

20/10/2025

22/08/2025

Lighting up the arteries Making the invisible visible: contrast injection during angiography

16/08/2025

Proud moment for Peshawar Institute of Cardiology!

15/08/2025

14/08/2025

🇵🇰 Alhumdulilah! On the 78th Independence Day of Pakistan, Peshawar Institute of Cardiology have made history — setting a NEW WORLD RECORD by performing 14 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantations ( ) in a single day! 🏆💚