Dr Brian McCrossan

Consultants

Profile

Dr Brian McCrossan trained in paediatric cardiology at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. He also completed two fellowships during his training: One year at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and a further two year fellowship in paediatric cardiac catheter interventions in Dublin. He was awarded the Colonel Davis Scholarship for research in 2009 and has recently been given an honorary lecturer role at Queen's University Belfast.

Dr McCrossan has published widely in international journals across a range of topics in congenital heart disease and is frequently invited to speak at international/ national conferences & training courses. He maintains a keen interest in medical research with particular interests in telemedicine, genetic syndromes associated with heart disease and psychological impact of heart disease on children and their families.

Dr McCrossan offers consultation on the full range of cardiac conditions and symptoms in children and adolescents: Assessment of murmurs, chest pain, palpitations, dizziness, fainting, shortness of breath with exertion and inherited cardiac disorders such as cardiomyopathy & Long QT syndrome.

He offers cardiac investigations including 12 lead ECG, transthoracic echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography, exercise stress testing, ambulatory ECG monitoring, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and Implantable loop recorder insertion.

Current NHS Posts

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust

Personal profile

Dr McCrossan enjoys football, cycling and singing

Qualifications

MB BCh BaO

Member of the Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health

Medical Doctorate

Professional bodies (Positions held in last 3 years)

Council Member of British Congenital Cardiac Association

Committee member of the UK Specialty Advisory Committee for Paediatric Cardiology

Irish Congenital Cardiac Association

Association for European Paediatric Cardiology

Trisomy 21 Research Society

Publications

McCrossan BA, Karayiannis S, Shields M, Nykanen D, Forbes TJ, Kobayashi D, Kenny D. Incidence, Predictors, and Outcomes of Cardiac Perforation During Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization: a Retrospective Observational Study from the Congenital Cardiac Interventional Study Consortium (CCISC). Pediatr Cardiol. 2023 Apr;44(4):867-872.

Callaghan S, Morrison ML, McKeown PP, Tennyson C, Sands AJ, McCrossan B, Grant B, Craig BG, Casey FA. Exercise prescription improves exercise tolerance in young children with CHD: a randomised clinical trial. Open Heart. 2021 May;8(1):e001599.

Morrison ML, Grant B, McCrossan BA, Sands AJ, Owens CG, Spence MS, Casey FA, Craig BG, Lockhart CJ.. 32 year follow up of patients following atrial redirection surgery for transposition of the great arteries. Congenit Heart Dis. 2019 Sep;14(5):846-853.

McCrossan B, Nolke L, Kenny D, Oslizlok P, Crispino G, Walsh KP, McMahon CJ. Experience of stent implantation for recurrent aortic arch obstruction following Norwood or Damus-Kaye-Stansel operation over the last decade. Cardiol Young. 2019 Sep;29(9):1137-1142.

McCrossan B, McCay N. Down syndrome and transposition of the great arteries. Cardiol Young. 2017 Oct;27(8):1630-1632.

Marini D, McCrossan BA, Agnoletti G. Protein-losing enteropathy in biventricular circulation precipitated by mild stenosis of the inferior caval vein in conjunction with total occlusion of the superior caval vein: a word of caution. Cardiol Young. 2017 Sep;27(7):1430-1433.

McCrossan B, O'Callaghan B, P Walsh K Stent implantation to relieve native obstructed left partial anomalous pulmonary venous connections. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Sep;88(3):452-5.

Morrison ML, McCrossan BA, Sands AJ, Craig B, Casey FA, Grant B. Referrals to Pediatric Cardiology Outpatients: Continued Evidence of Increasing Workload.Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2016 Mar 8.

McCrossan BA, McMahon CJ, Walsh KP. First reported use of drug-eluting bioabsorbable vascular scaffold in congenital heart disease. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Feb 1;87(2):324-8.

McCrossan BA, Walsh KP. Device closure of secundum atrial septal defect in a 4.5 kilogram infant: Novel use of the Amplatzer DuctOccluder II device. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Feb 1;87(2):329-31.

Treatment Areas

Treatments and areas of interest

Full range of cardiac conditions and symptoms in children and adolescents
Assessment of murmurs, chest pain, palpitations, dizziness, fainting, shortness of breath with exertion
Inherited cardiac disorders such as cardiomyopathy & Long QT syndrome

Fees