#OpenAccess Heart tx with concomitant reoperative total aortic arch replacement in a patient with end-stage heart failure and chronic aortic arch dissection. Read the JTCVS Techniques article by Kasinpila, Woo, et al: doi.org/10.1016/j.xjtc… #CTSurgery #cvsurg AATS CTSurgSocMedNetwork

Congrats to our incoming I6 @StanfordCTSurg residents! 🎉 We’re excited to have Edgar Aranda-Michel MD PhD, Jon Hochstein, and Gabe Weininger MD join our program - welcome to the farm! 🌲#WeAreStanford #Match2023

Register now bit.ly/JRFwebinar to hear about the latest aortic disease research advancements from the lab. Featuring Callie Kwartler, PhD from UTHealth Houston, Jessica Wagenseil, DSc from WashU McKelvey Engineering, and A.J. Pedroza and Alex Dalal, MD from Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery #aortaed

#HappyLabWeek! Dr. Michael Fischbein's lab focuses on advancing the understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of aortic aneurysm formation. #labweek #research Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery 🔬Learn more: ow.ly/xhCS50NPnlI

Catch Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery postdoc Dr. Cyril Zakka, MD presenting on a new open source framework for augmented reality (AR) in surgery at AATS 🫁🫀

New ATVB: An AHA Journal pub by Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery & team on potential therapy to inhibit Marfan syndrome aneurysmal growth using lineage-specific iPSC–derived smooth muscle cells. Sr. author Dr Mike Fischbein, co-1st authors Alex Dalal, MD & Ken Nakamura, et. al 🔬ow.ly/yGmK50OmRUa

In this recent #JTCVS Techniques pub, investigators explore how controlled balloon septal rupture may improve outcomes for endovascular management of chronic #aortic dissection. Authors inc. Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Dr. Claire Watkins, et al. #TAVR Read more at: ow.ly/tfp650O9Ltj

Thrilled to announce Almanac Chat, a new multi-institutional research collaboration to explore the potential uses and limitations of large multimodal language models for clinical medicine! Find out more: almanac.chat

Smooth muscle cell Klf4 expression is not required for phenotype modulation or aneurysm formation in #Marfansyndrome mice, acc. to recent ATVB: An AHA Journal pub. 🔬Authors inc. Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Dr Mike Fischbein, A.J. Pedroza, Alex Dalal, MD, Rohan Shad, MD, et al. ow.ly/cYsI50OmS7O

Klf4 expression is not required to initiate smooth muscle cell phenotype modulation or aortic aneurysm in murine Marfan syndrome A.J. Pedroza Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/AT…

Outcomes after concomitant arch replacement at the time of aortic root surgery. Read the JTCVS Open article by Krishnan, MacArthur, et al: doi.org/10.1016/j.xjon… #aorticroot #aorticsurgery #JTCVS AATS CTSurgSocMedNetwork Alex Dalal, MD

Proud to share our #aortaed research! John W. MacArthur Alex Dalal, MD A.J. Pedroza

The newest version of our Almanac preprint is out, and just in time for our demo at the Stanford AIMI Symposium 2023! Almanac is a retrieval-augmented LLM that provides up-to-date and verifiable answers to medical queries. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2303.01229 We benchmark our

Integrin av identified by iPSCs & murine models as a therapeutic target to mitigate aortic root aneurysms in Marfan Syndrome Alex Dalal, MD A.J. Pedroza Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/AT…

scientist after sequencing lots of single cells

Congrats to @StanfordCTSurg resident Dr. Stefan Elde, MD (Dr. Joe Woo lab) for receiving @nih_nhlbi F32 Award! His project will investigate single-cell characterization of angiogenesis & myocardial regeneration in small & large mammals 👏 ow.ly/Yr1550PCxtb

Thank you CTSNet and Sameh Said, MBBCh, MD, FACC, FACS for the opportunity to share our research from the labs of Dr. Brandon Guenthart Brandon A. Guenthart, MD and Dr. Joseph Woo. Much more to come on Total Beating Heart Transplantation soon.

Featured Article: Chemokine (C-C motif) Ligand 2 Expressing Adventitial Fibroblast Expansion During Loeys-Dietz Syndrome Aortic Aneurysm Formation ahajrnls.org/4i4O6jD

Woohoo!! So excited 😆 Awesome to see our very own Dr. Aravind Krishnan, MD serving as ambassador. 😁

Check it out! ✨ New paper out in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine on the rapid manufacturing of angiogenic cellular collagen patches for ischemic cardiomyopathy. Authors incl. Eric Pfrender, Yasuhiro Shudo, et al. Stanford CVI Joseph C Wu, MD, PhD Yuanjia Zhu, MD, PhD Alex Dalal, MD ✨ Read more: ow.ly/4b6p50WZFMI