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Job title: Professor for Cardiac Surgery, University of Dresden
ProfDrMichael Knaut is a Professor for Cardiac Surgery atUniversity of Dresden. He attended medical school atMartin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Since 1996, Prof Dr Knaut has worked at the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Heart Centre, University of Dresden. His scientific interests include rhythm surgery / surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation, minimally… View more
Job title: Full Professor of Physiology, Pathophysiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery
Adelino Leite-Moreira is Full Professor of Physiology, Pathophysiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, being also the Head of the Department of Physiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Coordinator of the Cardiovascular R&D Center of the same institution. He has an appointment as Senior Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the affiliated University… View more
Job title: Director of Heart and Vascular Center
Dr Jose L Navia is the Director of the Heart and Vascular Center at Cleveland Clinic Florida; Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Florida; and the S. Donald Sussman Distinguished Chair in Heart and Vascular Research. Dr Navia is also Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Dr Navia earned his medical degree from the School of Medicine at the National University of… View more
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Medical Director and Director of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
Professor Volkmar Falk is the Medical Director and Director of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery of the German Heart Center Berlin, Chair of the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Charité Berlin and Professor for Translational Cardiovascular Technologies at the ETH, Zurich. After successfully completing medical school and his doctorate at the University of Bonn, he… View more
Prof Sacha Salzberg was born in Geneva, Switzerland on December 5th, 1970. He studied medicine at the Free University of Brussels and graduated in July 2000. After a general surgery residency in Brussels, Belgium, Dr Salzberg joined the University Hospital in Zurich to be trained by Professor Marko Turina in Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery. During this training, he was offered a post… View more
Author(s): Ricardo Boix-Garibo , Mohammed Mohsin Uzzaman , Vinayak Bapat Added: 3 years ago
Aortic valve replacement via full sternotomy is the gold standard surgical therapy for patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) and insufficiency.1 This procedure has proved to be reliable, reproducible, relieves symptoms and improves prognosis of the patients. Degenerative AS is the most frequently acquired valve disease in the elderly population. In the current era, aortic valve surgery is the… View more
Author(s): Alec Vahanian , Volkmar Falk , Nicole Karam , et al Start date: Aug 29, 2021
Author(s): Karel M Van Praet , Christof Stamm , Simon H Sündermann , et al Added: 3 years ago
Reconstructive valve surgery encompasses a comprehensive system of valve analysis and related techniques based on three basic principles as described by Alain Carpentier and colleagues: restoring or preserving the full mobility of the leaflets, creating a large surface of leaflet coaptation and remodelling the annulus to provide an optimal and stable orifice area.1 Mitral valve regurgitation (MR)… View more