Esteemed cardiothoracic surgeon & long-time mentor for rising scientists, @StanfordCTSurg Dr. Craig Miller retires after 43 yrs at Stanford Health Care Stanford Medicine 👏 Thanks to Dr. Miller for his leadership, service, & commitment to patient health! Read more ow.ly/rEC650H36gc

Some patients still live with such stenotic mitral valve which has less opening than 1/4 inch tubing(picture on the right). CUSA is a life saver to clean the MAC for proper suture placement for valve replacement. #cusa #mitral stenosis

Last week, Aki Itoh hosted a Cardiac Surgical Workshop for Harvard Medical School. Special shoutout to Mr. Steve Cameron from Edwards Lifesciences and STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation for their invaluable help. Grateful to all residents and faculty for instructing and inspiring the next gen of med students❣️

It’s not easy but sometimes we have to do. 7cm endarterectomy of the LAD. Lucky to have good size LIMA skeltonized by Harmonic sewn to the LAD as a long on-lay patch, flowing over 100ml per min.

Konno method is a good option to enlarge the aortic root in the setting of re-do AVR and MVR. With Konno double patch enlarged sub-19mm annulus, 21mm aortic valve is placed with 29mm mitral tissue valve. Compared to commando, which is better?

After 8 years of dedicated work, this device retired and a new one took over the job. Likely the last HM2 to HM3 exchange in my carrier?

Heart transplants to D-TGA post Senning/Mustard patients are increasingly fulfilling process to achieve regular circulation for the first time ever! Aorta was more left and the PA was more right posterior. Their positions were corrected by donor great vessels. Brigham and Women's Cardiac Surgery

🎉Happy Administrative Professional's Day❤️Huge thanks to our amazing admin team in the Division of Cardiac Surgery ! Your hard work is the backbone of our success. We couldn't do it without you💐 #AdminProfessionalsDay #ThankYou😊

Plenary presentation alert: proud of our ⭐️ resident Taylor Nordan, mentored by Aki Itoh, speaking this morning on whether blood type and body size matter on MCS use as bridge to heart transplantation. It does! Check it out! AATS #AATS2024 #Toronto

Taylor Nordan of Brigham and Women's Cardiac Surgery presents a #AATS2024 Presidential Abstract with Ashish Shah of Vanderbilt Health as commentator. Dr. Shah is also program Co-chair of #MechSummit2024 - abstracts accepted through July 1: events.aats.org/mechanical24/c…

Sobering data being presented by Annie Abruzzo, 🌟 Harvard Medical School student mentee of Aki Itoh, on “Outcomes of Surgical Valve Replacements for Radiation-Induced Valvulopathy” at the Cardiac Conundrums session this afternoon of the #AATS2024 AATS #Toronto

Happy Friday🎉Wrapping up this week with a recap of our presentations at AATS 104th event🎉Huge congrats to all the surgeons, residents, and Harvard Medical School students for their incredible work👏#AATS104 #AATS2024 #CardiacSurgery

Teaching necessitates unwavering commitment and dedication. I’m by no means an exemplary teacher but I appreciate that Brigham trainees acknowledge my effort with “Larry Cohn Teaching Award” this year. My humble endeavor in teaching will continue Brigham and Women's Cardiac Surgery.

Our excellent team cardiac@BWH. From Left to right, Laura, Laura, Lauren, and Lauren! ⁦Brigham and Women's Cardiac Surgery⁩

BWH is nominated to be an Elite program~ I did not know this organization, though😅