Great team work, go blue!!!!

We have done 140+ consecutive now, including two cases of endocarditis. The results remained the same. Hemodynamics and LVH further improved in the second year. Median AVA went up to 2.4 cm2, and mean gradient remained 6-7 mmHg, better than TAVR (presented at STS 2023)

Look into figure 8. The PPM defined using EOA by individual echo measurement reflects dramatic difference of long term survival between no PPM and any PPM. That’s how PPM should be defined, not the EOA from valve company or predicted EOA published in literature

Will use excellent illustrations from Sarah Chen, a PGY5 I6 resident at UC Davis, and a medical illustrator for Ann thorac surg and short video clips to explain each step. Welcome discussions and question.

✋ Would you like to learn how to deal with the small aortic annulus? If so, do not miss this EACTS webinar on the 8th of March! 👇

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PARTNER 3 by no means was designed to study the effect of root enlargement. Comparing small annuli needing ARE to large annuli who didn’t need ARE. wrong message. The design should be randomizing the patients with small annulus and same annular size into AVR and AVR + AAE

#STS 2024 Vinod Thourani presenting #PARTNER3 SAVR outcomes: isolated SAVR show outcomes similar to benchmark #STS -database outcomes, better than SAVR-concomitant

Root enlargement just 5%, yet higher mortality than isolated SAVR

This comparison is like any other studies: small annulus needing root enlargement VS large annulus that didn’t need root enlargement. Apple to oranges. need show small annulus with or without enlargement. Our study showed in small annuli, AAE improve 6 year survival.

The aortic club of Michigan graduated, current, and coming aortic fellows at STS 2024. Great meeting, great reunion

This is the updated steps and results of Y incision aortic annular enlargement of 119 pts. Anyone can download this article using this correct link if they are interested. nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

To address aortic aneurysm-associated remodeling, Dr. Dogukan Mizrak employed single-molecule spatial transcriptomics of the human aorta. Tomorrow, he will present his novel findings about male thoracic aortic aneurysm at #AHA23 . AHA Science

Excellent job by all the members in the lad, especially Dr. Dogukan Mizrak, a genius in our group and, great collaboration with Eugene Chen

Looks who's on the plane, my partner Mott Children's MD Jennifer Romano! She's on her way home from the The Society of Thoracic Surgeons planning meeting for the upcoming Annual Meeting where she will be inaugurated as the first woman president of this prestigious society.

We have dedicated faculty, variety of aortic pathology from the aortic root to femoral artery to train our aortic fellows.

One week remains to register for the Heart Valve Disease Forum (Sept. 15-16, Seoul, Korea)! Co-presented by STS and KTCVS, the meeting will feature expert international faculty and the latest on the causes, diagnosis, treatment & future of valve disease. bit.ly/3qXuvNz