I thought this was worth sharing. I have only encountered this once. For a lack of a better term, I am going to call this a MAComa = liquefaction necrosis of mitral annular calcifications. #cardiotwitter Valva Mitralis

Our abstract was presented half way around the world yesterday at PAPS in Hong Kong by Stanford Ped Surg’s Dr. Claudia Mueller! Stay tuned for our manuscript.. 📄

🎉 Thrilled to announce our newest residents to the traditional #CTsurgery adult cardiac surgery & thoracic surgery tracks! Pls welcome James Beckett from Johns Hopkins Medicine (adult cardiac) & Sidra Bonner from University of Michigan (thoracic). Excited to welcome them to Stanford Medicine!👏 #Match2024

Our next Global Grand Rounds webinar will feature the best #congenital content of 2024. Register to join us this Wednesday, 5/8 at 7pm ET: aats.org/events/best-of…

🎉 Excited to announce Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Chair Dr. Joseph Woo has been named Vice President of AATS for the 2024-2025 term! 👏 This appointment puts Dr. Woo in line to become the 107th AATS President for 2026-2027. Stanford Bioengineering Stanford CVI Read more: ow.ly/pIM250RAStW

Congrats to Dr. Anson Lee who was elected to the prestigious AATS! 👏 "...it’s nice to be a part of a community that was an important part of my formative years,” says Dr. Lee. ow.ly/yaBX50RxxiQ

That’s a wrap! The Intro to CT Surgery class finishes off with Dr. Natalie Lui talking to Stanford Medicine Stanford University students about robotic surgery. A huge thank you to all our speakers for a great semester! 🙌 Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Stanford CVI John W. MacArthur

Our recent Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery work was featured in Atherosclerosis’s Editorial! “The SR-B1ΔCT/LDLR KO mouse: A new tool to shed light on coronary artery disease” doi.org/10.1016/j.athe… Check out our article here: doi.org/10.1016/j.athe… Stanford CVI 🐭🫀

doi.org/10.1111/petr.1… “Intellectual disability should not be a contraindication to bilateral lung transplantation on the basis of inferior graft survival.”

A Science Translational Medicine study in macaques showcases how editing pig donor kidneys with human transgenes prolongs graft survival, underscoring how gene editing and immunosuppression could expand the clinical promise of xenotransplantation. 📄: scim.ag/7ry

Ken Miller recently became #Michigan's first beating heart #transplant recipient thanks to the groundbreaking work led by Dr. Kyle Miletic and his team. Discover how this revolutionary surgery is redefining cardiac care: bit.ly/3XGmMkR

😃WTSA_Surgery President Dr. Michael Fischbein delivering his presidential address this morning on the exciting future of cardiothraocic surgery at the #WTSA2024 50th annual meeting. ✨ (PC Winston Trope)

#WTSA2024 ✨Dr. John W. MacArthur presented the latest advances in heart heart transplantation at Stanford Medicine Stanford Health Care. Our very own Dr. Joseph Woo co-moderated the session 😃. Congrats on the innovative work!👏 Western Thoracic Surgical Association (📸 Winston Trope)

Today we along with The Texas Heart Institute, @BiVACOR and St. Luke's Health hosted a press conference to announce the successful completion of the first-in-human implantation of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart as part of the U.S. FDA Early Feasibility Study. #HeartFailure #MedTech

A team of Stanford Children's heart specialists, including Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Dr. Elisabeth Martin, quickly assembled together to provide life-saving treatments to an extremely ill baby who was born a congenital heart defect. ✨ Read more: ow.ly/TZux50RK6Mj

Published with Stanford Surgery Stanford Ped Surg Ob/Gyn @ Stanford “gender diversity in pediatric surgery: academic ranks and scholarly productivity amongst pediatric surgeons” … Our work was recently presented in Hong Kong at PAPS 2024. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

SR-BI∆CT/∆CT::Ldlr-/- mouse model of late-stage #Atherosclerosis upon #Paigendiet 50% mortality at day 38 Cardiac hypertrophy Enlarged liver Splenomegaly Atherosclerotic lesions in🐭coronary arteries😎 Such a low cellularity, low eosin stain (Fig 2 J,K)- love to see more

Do you recognize the illustration on the cover of the Augusto Issue of our Journal? 🕵️ It is taken from the original article by Danielle Mullis et al. If you missed it, read it today! 🔗 atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-… European Atherosclerosis Society Elsevier Cardiology #EASSoMe #CvPrev

🌟 Join us for our inaugural Research Symposium! 🌟 👩🏻 WHO: Stanford researchers in transplantation 🕞 WHEN: 9/20/24 | 3:30-5:00 PM 📍 WHERE: Li Ka Shing Learning & Knowledge Center | LK130 🥂 Lectures will be followed by discussion and a reception. Varia Kirchner Brandon A. Guenthart, MD

🚨Mark your calendar🚨Come learn about exciting opportunities in transplant research this Friday! Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Stanford Surgery StanfordAbdTxp Stanford Engineering Brandon A. Guenthart, MD Varia Kirchner