🔓 Open access! Samurai Cannulation for Acute Stanford Type A Aortic Dissection. Read the full OpTechs article by Kitamura, Miyaji, et al: doi.org/10.1053/j.opte… #JTCVS AATS CTSurgSocMedNetwork

Today Salman and I fired up a total arterial CABG today, including a Y-anastamosis. Dr Zaheer did the entire case from the right side of the table! Come to Johns Hopkins Cardiothoracic Surgery and train with us!

⁦Thaniyyah Ahmad⁩ and I capped off the third heart txp of the week ⁦Johns Hopkins Cardiothoracic Surgery⁩. Great collaboration with ⁦Paragonix Technologies⁩. Many more transplants to come ⁦Johns Hopkins Medicine⁩! ⁦Ahmet Kilic⁩ ⁦Kavita Sharma⁩ ⁦⁦Johns Hopkins Cardiology⁩

Teamwork in the OR – thank you to surgeons Chetan Pasrija Chetan Pasrija, Antonio Polanco Antonio Polanco, MD and the amazing heart transplant team for taking the best care of our patients Hopkins Surgery

Happy Heart Month and National Women Physicians Day tomorrow! Proud of our Johns Hopkins Cardiology HF/Transplant team this week performing 5 heart transplants in 7 days! Kudos to Antonio Polanco, MD Chetan Pasrija Ahmet Kilic and our multiD teams! Nisha Gilotra Steven Hsu Ed Kasper

PGD after heart txp can be tackled with early ECMO, direct transition from bypass to ECMO. 36 hours post txp, severe PGD on dual inotropy with CI of 1.2 improved to normal BiV function and a CI of 4 on single inotropy off ECMO. #earlyECMO #hearttransplant

Master and Apprentice. It’s been a privilege to train under Dr. Duke Cameron. Johns Hopkins Cardiology Hopkins Surgery Johns Hopkins Cardiothoracic Surgery Johns Hopkins Medicine

Our @Hopkinsheart heart failure/transplant team reached a milestone by performing five successful heart transplants within seven days — the team’s highest weekly total! Johns Hopkins Cardiothoracic Surgery Kavita Sharma Antonio Polanco, MD Chetan Pasrija Ahmet Kilic bit.ly/3SQWwAg

Chief fellow and soon-to-be graduate, Salman, has become a transplant machine 🤖 under the formidable guidance of Sensei Antonio Polanco, MD. Johns Hopkins Cardiology 🌟

Our 2024 Hopkins Heart Transplant retreat this week! Packed session of high impact talks on the latest in heart transplant care from Johns Hopkins Cardiology Johns Hopkins Cardiothoracic Surgery and our multi-D teams! Guest appearance by HOF MLB star patient Harold Baines, fantastic breakout sessions - SWOT

First DCD heart transplant performed last night Johns Hopkins Medicine by Chetan Pasrija Antonio Polanco, MD! Milestone moment for Johns Hopkins Cardiology and Johns Hopkins Cardiothoracic Surgery ! Incredible dedication and efforts by all team members. Ahmet Kilic Steven Hsu Nisha Gilotra Joban Vaishnav Paul Scheel

Closing out the academic year, finally getting to do a Type A with Salman and firing up a redo txp with rising chief Nkosi Alvarez. Johns Hopkins Cardiothoracic Surgery

Closing out the 2023-2024 academic year on a high! Incredibly proud of the Johns Hopkins Cardiology Advanced HF/ Transplant program for a record breaking academic year! 🔥 51 heart transplants 80 ECMO 75 Impellas DCD program initiated ⬆️ 1 year transplant survival (98%) ⬆️ 1 year

There seems to be a lot of interest online lately on annular enlargement. I thought I’d share a few thoughts ⬇️

LAVA ECMO has been a great strategy to vent the left side, however stasis may still exist when there is no intrinsic pulsatility. Impella 5.5, while challenging to place in these situations, provides the best solution for LV venting. #ecmo #impella Abiomed

Sensitized patients with biventricular shock and VT have very few options. Recently, Chetan Pasrija and I elected to use 2 HM3s or a HM6 as a TAH. Thanks to the entire Johns Hopkins Cardiology HF group for continuing to support giving high risk patients options.

A weekend full of heart transplant education Johns Hopkins Cardiothoracic Surgery. First of Chief year for Deven Patel and first ever for our first year fellow Uzma Rahman. Come learn HF surgery with us Johns Hopkins Medicine.