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🔥 Extremely grateful to @EACTS for awarding me a Specialty Impact Fund (SIF) Grant. 🙏 🙌This initiative helps early-career surgeons join the global @EACTS community. 🌍💙 Excited to make the most of this opportunity and dive into all things CT surgery! #EACTS2025
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🚀 First 5 years in CT surgery? Let’s talk contracts, cases & career moves. Join @DSGMD, Dr. Douglas Liou & @jgrizzity LIVE on Instagram — Tues, Sept 16 at 7 p.m. ET. No reg needed, just follow STS & tune in! #CTsurgery #EarlyCareerSurgeons
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Is it your first ECTSS Annual Meeting? We answered some frequently asked questions for you!
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🔥 Hot off the press in @JACCJournals: Cardiac CT after LAAO reveals: 📌 Residual LAA patency → 2x ↑ thromboembolism risk. 📌 Bayesian analysis confirms high probability of harm. 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2025.… @IbrahimSultanMD @M_Pompeu_Sa_MD @UPMC_CTSurgery
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The University of Pittsburgh has ranked #1 in the 2025 TSF Top 20 Institutional Honor Roll, having received the most cumulative support for research and education projects @PittTweet @ThoracicSurgFnd @STS_CTsurgery #TSF #ThoracicSurgeryFoundation
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Early HVD, per VARC-3 criteria, is an important outcome after TAVI. Our findings: 🔹HVD in 6.2% of pts 1-yr post-TAVI 🔹Smaller valve size ↑ HVD risk 🔹Larger valves = protective @IbrahimSultanMD @DSGMD @HviUpmc @annalsthorsurg 📎authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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UPMC Heart Transplant Program's patient outcomes rank among the top in the nation Read more: upmcphysicianresources.com/n… @UPMCPhysicianEd @DavidKaczoro @GavHick @HviUpmc @UPMC #HeartTransplant #Transplant
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Ibrahim Sultan retweeted
What are the implications of tracheostomy after acute type A aortic dissection repair? Learn about the longitudinal outcomes and factors associated with patients requiring it by reading this #JTCVS Open study published by researchers at @UPMC_CTSurgery: doi.org/10.1016/j.xjon.2025.…
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#AdultCardiac #CME article from Brown et al on Natural History of Mitral Regurgitation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2024.09.008 #AnnalsCME @sarahyousefmd @M_Pompeu_Sa_MD @danial_ahmad93 @DSGMD @CatalinPToma @Amber_MakaniMD @IbrahimSultanMD
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Observational study of #TAVI for aortic stenosis: significant mitral regurgitation before and after TAVI associated with ⬇️ survival 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3932… @IbrahimSultanMD @sarahyousefmd @M_Pompeu_Sa_MD @danial_ahmad93 @DSGMD @Amber_MakaniMD @annalsthorsurg #AorticStenosis
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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/3900… @cediazc @IbrahimSultanMD @DSGMD @M_Pom @AATSHQ @HviUpmc #JTCVS #ATAAD #Aorta
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🔥Hot off the press: early aortic valve replacement (AVR) in asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis significantly reduces all-cause & cardiovascular mortality, plus heart failure hospitalizations, our RCT meta-analysis shows. 📎doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.202… 🌍 Great international effort!
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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/retr… @DSGMD @IbrahimSultanMD @EishanAshwat @CatalinPToma @Amber_MakaniMD @HviUpmc @annalsthorsurg
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Opening the #STS2025 meeting with STS Aortic Universe. Packed room of attendees understanding how to perfect aortic arch surgery using Thoraflex. #aortaed #cardioed @STS_CTsurgery @geoarnaoutakis @KarenMKimMD1 @jgrizzity @DSGMD @UPMC_CTSurgery
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Opening the #STS2025 meeting with STS Aortic Universe. Packed room of attendees understanding how to perfect aortic arch surgery using Thoraflex. #aortaed #cardioed @STS_CTsurgery @geoarnaoutakis @KarenMKimMD1 @jgrizzity @DSGMD @UPMC_CTSurgery
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🔥Join us in this journey through the life cycle of the newly designated #aortic “organ”, and enhance your ability to provide exceptional care to patients with aortic disease. #AortaEd #STS2025 @STS_CTsurgery @ThoracicSurgFnd @IbrahimSultanMD @geoarnaoutakis @KarenMKimMD1
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