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🔥Hot off the press in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Just how mild is mild PVL? Great work by a fellow Pitt med student, Nav! Mild PVL after TAVI associated with reduced survival compared to no PVL on landmark KM analysis 📉 doi.org/10.1016/j.atho… Pitt Cardiothoracic Surgery Department Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Ibrahim Sultan

Retrospective single institution cohort study of #TAVI shows that after TAVI, >moderate paravalvular leak is associated with ⬇️ survival vs none/trace PVL 🔗: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S… Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Ibrahim Sultan @EishanAshwat Catalin Toma, MD Amber Makani UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

🚨Latest #FreeRead Article in JICE Prevalence of High Ventricular Pacing Burden in Patients Requiring Permanent Pacemaker post TAVR 🧐📖rdcu.be/ebe42 by Joseph Ibrahim, MD, Brent Medoff, Jianhui Zhu, Floyd Thoma, Derek Serna-Gallegos MD, David West, Amber Makani, N. A. Mark

The German Registry for Acute Aortic Dissection Type A score shows good discriminatory and predictive ability for 30d #mortality risk in a US population 🔗: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11… Danial Ahmad, MD, MPH Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Julie Phillippi Ibrahim Sultan AATS #JTCVSOpen #ATAAD #AorticDissection

🔥Hot off the press🔥 Read our study just published in JAHA showing that there are insufficient #RCT data on 🧠cerebral embolic protection device use to provide conclusive findings for stroke outcomes after #TAVI #TAVR ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA… #StructuralHeart🫀 💥Nice

There are insufficient randomized controlled trial data on cerebral embolic protection device use to provide conclusive meta-analytic findings for stroke outcomes 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40118799/ Ibrahim Sultan Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Michel Pompeu Sá Xander Jacquemyn UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute American Heart Association #TAVI

Retrospective cohort study: race and sex disparities in periop resource use, postop outcomes and long-term survival after acute type A #AorticDissection repair 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40209453/ AmJSurgery Carlos E. Diaz-Castrillon Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Sarah Yousef Julie Phillippi Ibrahim Sultan UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute #ATAAD

A #SystematicReview demonstrates that while #TAVR explant is a rare event, its clinical impact is non-negligible 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40270844/ Michel Pompeu Sá Ibrahim Sultan Xander Jacquemyn Danial Ahmad, MD, MPH Eishan Ashwat Derek Serna-Gallegos MD UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute

Honored to see our study featured as an Editor’s Choice in the May issue of #JTCVS Read it free until 5/30 #AorticDissection Pitt Cardiothoracic Surgery Department Ibrahim Sultan Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Michel Pompeu Sá George Arnaoutakis #WilsonSzeto The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Honored to have presented our work as a plenary presentation at #AATS2025. SAA patients represent an important subgroup of those receiving AVR. Hopeful for prospective studies on SAVR + root enlargement v TAVR in the near future. Ibrahim Sultan Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Pitt Cardiothoracic Surgery Department AATS

💥Hot off the press in JTCVS #SAVR and #TAVR prove comparable in patients with low-flow, low-gradient (LFLG) aortic stenosis No differences in mortality or HF readmissions jtcvs.org/article/S0022-… Nav Warraich Danial Ahmad, MD, MPH Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Ibrahim Sultan Pitt Cardiothoracic Surgery Department AATS

Retrospective study validates a dose-response association between postop complications and mortality in patients undergoing surgery for acute type A #AorticDissection 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39009336/ Carlos E. Diaz-Castrillon Ibrahim Sultan Derek Serna-Gallegos MD @M_Pom AATS UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute #JTCVS #ATAAD #Aorta

Patients w/small aortic annuli who underwent #TAVR with intra-annular SEV had better hemodynamics but comparable 2y survival vs those with BEV 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40368734/ Danial Ahmad, MD, MPH Michel Pompeu Sá Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Irsa Hasan Ibrahim Sultan Catalin Toma, MD Amber Makani UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute

Live from Istanbul 🇹🇷 Our PGY-3 Kei Kobayashi presenting on #TAVR after #SAVR at ISMICSofficial 🫀 Danial Ahmad, MD, MPH Carlos E. Diaz-Castrillon Irsa Hasan Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Ibrahim Sultan

National Readmissions Database study finds differential association between teaching hospital status and 90-day readmission mortality in patients who underwent #TAVR 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40433130/ CJC Journals Carlos E. Diaz-Castrillon Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Irsa Hasan Ibrahim Sultan UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute Pitt Cardiology

Congratulations to our soon-to-be graduating Cardiothoracic Surgery chief fellow, Deven Patel on being selected Alpha Omega Alpha - a recognition of excellence in scholarship, teaching, leadership, service, and humanism in medicine. Alpha Omega Alpha Hopkins Surgery

Minimally invasive and #robotic approaches to #LVAD implantation: evolving techniques 🫀 An expert review by Nick Hess, Martin Winter, Andrea Amabile, MD, Faaz Ashraf, Dr. Kaczorowski and Dr. Bonatti 👉🏻 tinyurl.com/roboticLVAD

Significant tricuspid regurgitation before #TAVI is associated with poor outcomes post TAVI; 12% of cohort had >/=moderate TR 1 year after TAVI 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40530488/ Sarah Yousef Danial Ahmad, MD, MPH Amber Makani Irsa Hasan Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Ibrahim Sultan AmericanHeart

#EditorsChoice In this study, Brown, Sultan, and coauthors sought to determine the impact of mitral regurgitation on outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.atho…

Observational study of #TAVI for aortic stenosis: significant mitral regurgitation before and after TAVI associated with ⬇️ survival 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39322054/ Ibrahim Sultan Sarah Yousef Michel Pompeu Sá Danial Ahmad, MD, MPH Derek Serna-Gallegos MD Amber Makani The Annals of Thoracic Surgery #AorticStenosis