This week
@YaleCardiacSurg
@YNHH
@YaleSurgery
did it’s 200th intracardiac robotic case in less than 3 years. Majority mitral repair but lots of other cases. Great to work with a dedicated team that plays an instrumental role in program’s success.
This week the robotic cardiac team
@YaleCardiacSurg
@YNHH
did the 100th robotic mitral valve operation. Program started just over 18 months ago. 100% repair rate for mitral valve prolapse and excellent outcomes. Also done MVR for rheumatic disease, tricuspid repair and MAZE.
Great day
@YaleCardiacSurg
@YNHH
Robotic Mitral Team. New dedicated DaVinci Xi for cardiac surgery. This academic year we did 95 cases and have done 265 cases since we started the program less than four years ago. Super proud of the team and this accomplishment.
Maintaining a professional environment in and out to of the OR is key part of being a good surgeon and a leader. Affects patient outcome and also wellbeing of your coworkers.
When Surgeons Are Abrasive To Co-Workers, Patients' Health May Suffer
Incredibly proud of
@YNHH
and
@YaleMedicine
. Well thought out preparations by leadership for
#COVID
ー19. Incredible group of physicians, nurses, RT and support staff putting themselves in the frontline.
@YaleCardiacSurg
providing mobile lung rescue ECMO. We will get through this!
Unexpected issue regarding
#COVID
-19 is dramatic decrease in blood donation. Cardiac surgery and other clinical areas requiring blood products are severely affected even prior to seeing a wave of critically ill COVID patients.
#donateblood
Great academic year for the
@YNHH
Robotic Cardiac Team. Close to 100 operations performed of which 80 were robotic mitral. So impressed by everyone commitment to excellent patient care and superior outcomes.
Congratulation our two graduating cardiothoracic surgeon trainees from
@yalectsurgery
Rajesh Sekar and Jeenah Jung. It is such a pleasure to train the next generation of cardiac surgeons
@YaleCardiacSurg
One of the most interesting mitral valve repair that I have done using the robot. Check the video: .
Robotic mitral valve repair in a patient with cardiac dextroversion - JTCVS Techniques
In the next 10 yrs we will be challenged with new complications related to TAVR & TMVR. Perforation, migration, paravalvular leaks, endocarditis, degeneration etc. One can argue exciting times but also scary times. Reoperations I have done so far not straight forward.
Proud to contribute to a great event.
@STS_CTsurgery
Workshop on Robotic Cardiac Surgery with excellent faculty. Hoping to inspire cardiac surgeons at all levels to start doing robotic surgery. More to come.
@sloaneguy
@drbypass
Arman Arghami and Bob Kiaii
The sickest of the sick
#COVID19
patients can be saved with ECMO.
@YaleCardiacSurg
@YNHH
is one of the busiest program in New England and the only one in Connecticut. Incredible teamwork: MICU and CTICU intensivist and cardiac surgery.
@YaleMedicine
We are on tract to do over 60 robotic mitral valve cases this calendar year. Credit for this phenomenal growth and success of the program goes to a tremendous team at
@YNHH
Robotic surgery a “draw” for heart valve repair
Our very own
@YaleCardiacSurg
@YaleSurgery
John A Elefteriades considered the top-rated aortic aneurysm experts in the world. Appropriate recognition of his life-time commitment advancing the field of aortic surgery
Expertise in Aortic Aneurysm: Worldwide
Thank you to the
@YNHH
cardiac perfusionist team. These Certified Clinical Perfusionists (CCP) are allied health professionals who run the heart-lung machine during open heart surgery and provide ECMO support for patients in the cardiac ICU, including COVID-19 patients.
We asked if adding tricuspid repair to AVR/MVR affected outcome. Results indicates no negative effects on survival or pacemaker requirement. Subgroup of patients with TR and no repair experienced reduced TR. More to explore
@TFaggionVinholo
@mori_md
Few months ago at our Yale Cardiac Surgery Outcome Research Group weekly meeting we had a discussion how editorials appeared to interpret results of clinical trial differently. Questions were brought up about biases and conflict of interest. Upon further investigation:
Giving a talk about “Pragmatic approach to mitral valve repair” in St. Petersburg, Russia. My translator Igor, junior cardiologist, did a fantastic job getting the message across.
100 TEVARs in 15 months! Congratulations to the Aortic Institute, Cardiac Surgery, and Vascular Surgery for the interdisciplinary work in providing the best endovascular options for our patients at Yale Medicine!
#yalemedicine
#yalecardiacsurgery
#yalevascularsurgery
One of the best meetings for anyone interested in
#mitralvalve
disease is the Mitral Conclave
@AATSHQ
#Mitral2023
May 4-5 in New York. Join me and others to learn about the latest techniques and strategies from leaders in the field. Register at
Cornell Brooks
@YaleCardiacSurg
among giants of cardiac surgery presenting his work on volume outcome relationships in CABG and valve surgery
#STS2020
We developed a robust robotic mitral program
@YNHH
@YaleCardiacSurg
in 14 months. The only such program in New England and one of the busier in the US. Proud of the robotic team that made it possible. Robotic Heart Surgery: Is It Better? via
@YaleMed
Probably the definate study on volume-outcome relationship for mitral valve surgery. Using
@STS_CTsurgery
ACS database
@BadhwarVinay
and co-authors demonstrate both hospital (>75) and surgeon (>35) level association with 30-day and 1-year mortality.
Testament of the great work done by everyone
@YNHH
Heart and Vascular Center.
@YaleCardiacSurg
@YaleCardiology
High volume, complex patients and excellent outcomes.
YNHH named best heart hospital in CT
Should cardiac surgeons be more aggressive with LAAO in patients with Afib? Looks like it!
Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion and Stroke and Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
The Valve Center
@YNHH
and the structural heart team
@YaleCardiacSurg
@YaleCardiology
successfully did the first TMVR in CT last week in APOLLO Intrepid TMVR Clinical Trial. Amazing technology & partners. More to come.
#FutureIsBright
We have build up a program at the highest level over the last 3 and a half years with over 150 patients benefitting from a new heart during that time with exemplary outcomes. Proud of the support from
@YaleSurgery
@YaleCardiacSurg
@NitaAhujaMD
@KChurchwellMD
Probably the hardest part of being a successful section chief is recruiting. Happy to have Ayyaz Ali, join
@YaleCardiacSurg
@YaleSurgery
@YaleTransplant
as Surgical Director of the Yale Heart Failure program. Super hard working, excellent technical surgeon and a real team player
This is a great opportunity to get into robotic cardiac surgery. Connect with the leaders in the field and set up mentorship that will help you advance your practice
Interested in adding robotic cardiac surgery to your practice? Consider applying for the Thoracic Surgery Foundation Advanced Robotic Cardiac Surgery Fellowship! https:// roboticcardiacfellowship
@STS_CTsurgery
@ThoracicSurgFnd
Great to visit Dr Zhe Zheng, chief of cardiovascular surgery at Fuwai Hospital in Peijing. Impressive clinical service. Largest cardiac program in the world 15,000 cardiac cases and 37,000 catheter intervention annually. Inspiring research structure.
@georgetolisjr
Majority of cardiac surgeon are considered technically good. Only few are gifted. Some are challenged technically but are excellent physicians. One of the main determinance of how good you are as a surgeon is if you care and are aware of your abilities.
It was an honor to present as the Richard E Clark Memorial Paper for Adult Cardiac Surgery
@STS_CTsurgery
our work on the evolving burden of valve operations for infectious endocarditis due to drug use in the US.
#STS2020
AATS cancelled!! I am sure this was a tough decision for the
@AATSHQ
leadership but a wise one given that status and uncertainty. Social distancing is probably the best way to limit and halt the spread of COVID-19
Such a great group of menors and leaders in cardiac surgery
@pennsurgery
. Looking forward to having Dr. V join us
@YaleCardiacSurg
and the Aortic Institute
@YNHH
It’s been a real honor to work with such a great team
@YNHH
Heart and Vascular Center. My favorite days of the week. So many patients benefit from a truly minimally invasive approach to mitral valve repair for mitral valve prolapse.
When
@USNewsHealth
confirms what you’ve known for awhile - that the hospital system you work in is amongst the BEST in the US! Congratulations
@YNHH
& our superb team that work day & night to provide the best care to our patients!
#USnews
#HonorRole
#AATS2019
Mitral conclave lessons learned: 4. Concomitant MAZE for afib requires left sided box lesion. 5. Pathophysiology and ventricular strain associated with degenerative MR is poorly understood. 6. Importance of ventricular arrhythmias in MVP is under appreciated.
@AATSHQ
@mori_md
presenting his work with
@hmkyale
@YaleCardiacSurg
about machine learning in cardiac surgery followed by discussion with leaders of the field.
@mori_md
presenting a
provocative results about the proportionality of functional mitral regurgitation and survival in post hoc analysis from the CTSN ischemic MR trial
@YaleCardiacSurg
Incredible talk by Anthony Furnary
#EACTS2019
deconstructing Parter 1 data. Provided strong arguments that data presentation was heavily biased and TAVR not non-inferior to SAVR with high rates of procedural failure not reported. Industry supported trials need to be scrutinized
Excellent meeting. Lots to learn at the Aortic Valve Repair Symposium. Well organized and to the point
@BavariaMd
Dr. Vallabhajosyula and Dr. Boodhwani. Cardiac surgeons need to know how to repair the aortic valve.
In latest STS report
@YaleCardiacSurg
@YNHH
received highest 3 Star rating for STS Composite Quality Rating in 4 of 5 categories. AVR, AVR+CABG, MV repair and replacement, MVRR+CABG. One of seven centers nationwide from 1008 STS participating centers.
#Quality
@YaleSurgery
@YaleCardiacSurg
has supported our female resident through pregnacy and breastfeeding but it is very challenging for them. The system is changing but very slowly via
@nytimes
@georgetolisjr
The worst two combination are: 1. Poor technical surgeon with no self concept of abilities; 2. Technically gifted who does not care about the patient or others.
Great paper headed by the Yale Structural Heart team. Dr Mangi and Dr. Forrest
@YaleCardiacSurgery
Early Outcomes With the Evolut PRO Repositionable Self-Expanding Transcatheter Aortic Valve With Pericardial Wrap
Good news
@YaleCardiacSurg
@YNHH
@YaleSurgery
Department of Surgery, Section of Cardiac Receives Highest Quality Rating > Cardiac Surgery | Surgery | Yale School of Medicine >
On behalf of our team of national authors, I am pleased to share our paper on the risk of repair of primary mitral regurgitation (MR), published simultaneously today in JACC and The Annals.
View this video to learn more:
Such a great and kind person. Outstanding teacher. Honor to have known him
@YaleSurgery
Stanley Dudrick, whose surgical technique feeds those who can’t eat, dies at 84 - The Washington Post
Robotic mitral valve repair is truly a minimally invasive procedure with majority of patients staying 2-4 days in the hospital and fully recovered in few weeks.
Interview day for I-6 residency training program
@YaleCardiacSurg
Amazing quality of applicants. Smart, insightful and academically oriented group. Not sure if I would make the cut today to become a
#Heartsurgeon
Excellent piece. I am convinced that I can do a better robotic mitral repair than open but the clinical evidence is very limited. This applies to most robotic procedures. New technology should at least be as effacious and safe as older procedure and optimally better.
A complete program that could not have been set up successfully without excellent and a dedicated team both in and outside the
@YNHH
OR. Micah, Joe, Mike, myself, Andrea, Bing, Paul and Jason, and many others
@njohncamm
Beautiful repair. It is worth mentioning that majority of repairs for Barlow’s require more advanced techniques than only annuloplasty. This is only applicable in ~5% of cases where there is equal prolapse of leaflets.