Dr Carla Plymen Consultant cardiologist
- Patient age group
- Adults
- Consultant registered on
- 01/07/2001
- Primary medical qualifications
- MBBS
- Foreign languages
- Gender
- Female
- Services
- Hospitals
Background
Dr Carla Plymen trained at Guy's & St Thomas' Medical Schools and qualified in 2001. She completed MRCP (UK) in 2004 and entered higher specialty training in cardiology thereafter. She received her CCT in 2015 and has been leading the Heart Failure team at Imperial College Healthcare since 2016 as a Consultant in Cardiology. She is currently a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, and a Fellow of the Heart Failure Association (ESC). She is also the North London lead for Heart Failure within the NL Cardiac ODN.
She leads a geographically extensive integrated heart failure service in North West London, covering both acute and community services.
Expertise
All form of heart failure and general cardiology
Research & publications
Bachtiger P, Kelshiker MA, Petri CF, Gandhi M, Shah M, Kamalati T, Khan SA, Hooper G, Stephens J, Alrumayh A, Barton C, Kramer DB, Plymen CM, Peters NS. Survival and health economic outcomes in heart failure diagnosed at hospital admission versus community settings: a propensity-matched analysis. BMJ Health Care Inform. 2023 Mar;30(1):e100718. doi: 10.1136/bmjhci-2022-100718.
Cannata A, Badawy L, Anyu AT, Samways J, Sweeney M, Jordan-Rios A, Zakeri R, Scott PA, Piper S, Plymen CM, McDonagh TA, Bromage DI. The prognostic impact of specialist cardiology input in patients admitted for heart failure and normal ejection fraction. ESC Heart Fail. 2023 Aug;10(4):2648-2655
Auton A, Zaman S, Padayachee Y, Samways JW, Quaife NM, Sweeney M, Tenorio I, Linton NWF, Cole GD, Peters NS, Mayet J, Barton C, Plymen CM. Smartphone-Based Remote Monitoring for Chronic Heart Failure: Mixed Methods Analysis of User Experience From Patient and Nurse Perspectives. JMIR Nurs. 2023 Jun 6;6:e44630.
Patrik Bachtiger, Camille F Petri, Francesca E Scott, Se Ri Park, Mihir A Kelshiker, Harpreet K Sahemey, Bianca Dumea, Regine Alquero, Pritpal S Padam, Isobel R Hatrick, Alfa Ali, Maria Ribeiro, Wing-See Cheung, Nina Bual, Bushra Rana, Matthew Shun-Shin, Daniel B Kramer, Alex Fragoyannis, Daniel Keene, Carla M Plymen, Nicholas S Peters. Point-of-care screening for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction using artificial intelligence during ECG-enabled stethoscope examination in London, UK: a prospective, observational, multicentre study. Lancet Digit Health 2022; 4: e117–25 . https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(21)00256-9
Carys Barton, Simon Gordon, Afsana Safa, Carla M Plymen. Heart Failure care pathways: the power of collaboration and marginal gains. Br J Cardiol 2022;29:9–11