Evandro Martins Filho, MD

About

Evandro Martins Filho, MD, is an interventional cardiologist at University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute and Clinical Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He specializes in complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), including chronic total occlusion (CTO) and high-risk PCI with mechanical circulatory support.

Dr. Martins Filho treats patients with chest pain or shortness of breath that persists despite medications, artery blockages after bypass surgery or prior stents, heavily calcified arteries, and patients who have been told they are not candidates for surgery or stents. He uses coronary CT angiography (coronary CTA) to evaluate each case and plan the procedure, and intravascular imaging (IVUS and OCT) to guide and optimize the result. Most procedures are performed through the wrist, and patients usually go home within one to two days.

Dr. Martins Filho completed fellowships in cardiology and interventional cardiology at the Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology in São Paulo, ranked among the top 40 cardiology hospitals in the world by Newsweek (World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2027).

Before joining University Hospitals, Dr. Martins Filho built a high-volume CTO and complex coronary intervention program in Brazil that performed more than 1,000 CTO procedures. He trained in CTO techniques in Tokyo and Kobe, Japan, and has proctored complex and CTO PCI across Latin America. He is co-director of CTO Club Brasil and teaches at national and international meetings on CTO techniques and intravascular imaging.

Dr. Martins Filho has published more than 30 scientific papers, many of them on CTO PCI. His CTO work includes studies from the Latin American CTO Registry on outcomes in patients with prior bypass surgery and on the role of guide extension catheters in procedural success, new techniques to advance equipment through difficult occlusions, strategies to reduce radiation exposure during CTO procedures, and the safety of CTO proctoring programs.