Proud moment!
I stepped out of my scrubs today! Pictured here, our final year resident (Shokoufeh Cheheili Sobbi) is performing a fully
#endoscopic
#mitralvalverepair
.
I believe she might be the first in the world trained to undertake a fully endoscopic mitral valve surgery
@ElonMuskAOC
You should fire those who designed it! It doesn't reflect any positivity or creativity, or perhaps going rogue and to the dark side of the force was the intention,,,😂
State-of-the-Art
#Surgery
A few months ago, one of our residents sent me this picture; a postoperative wound from one of my patients (with permission to share)!
Can you imagine that this is the primary incision in men for an open-heart operation to repair the
#mitralvalve
,
Testing of our
#3Dprinted
patient-specific
#aorticvalve
. Part of the simulator we will introduce at
@EACTS
in
#Vienna
. Our simulator is equipped with a disposable patient-specific 3D-printed aortic root featuring the valve, ascending
#aorta
, the arch, and descending aorta. Will
My 7 P’s of Surgical Hemostasis!
Just to keep up the spirit during complex cardiovascular procedures, I joke about my 7 P’s! Especially in acute Type A dissection:
Prolene
Protamine
Pressure
Patience
Platelets
Plasma
Prayer!
What is your formula?
#surgery
#cardiacsurgery
Another surgical toy!
Snapshot of my latest
#innovation
: a multi-model
#simulator
for
#aorticvalve
replacement, suitable for both mics & conventional procedures from root to proximal descending aorta. This simulator features a patient-specific
#3Dprinted
#aorta
with
Happy to share our two recent
#publications
(suturing maps for endoscopic mitral valve replacement and endoscopic tricuspid repair) in EACTS - European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery journal MMCTS.
To improve the
#qualityhealthcare
of surgical…
Another Milestone Reached!
#3dprinting
#cardiovascular
structures in soft material specifically engineered for
#surgicaltraining
#simulation
is an achievement in itself. However, printing these structures in customized colors adds another layer of complexity. We're excited
Preview 2
Testing our
#3Dprinted
patient-specific thoracic aorta with
#aorticvalve
. Part of the simulator we will introduce at
@EACTS
in
#Vienna
. Our simulator will support simulations for various procedures—from aortic replacement, repair, Bentall, David to elephant trunk
To TEER or To WEEP!
#TEER
is a valuable tool in the toolbox in treatment of patients with
#mitralvalve
disease by a dedicated
#HeartTeam
based on the contemporary guidelines especially in high-risk older population. Here is an intriguing study just published online in European
Mitral transcatheter edge to edge repair versus isolated mitral surgery for severe mitral regurgitation: A French nationwide study just published in
#EHJ
@escardio
@ESC_Journals
#CardioTwitter
Maastricht Mitral Masters . Honored to host so distinguised faculty and also colleagues from around the world. So far registrations from 27 countries! Final week for registrations which is mandatory because of live-surgery. Visit the website:
#cardiacsurg
Unveiling Gratitude: The Architects Behind Our Triumph
Grateful for the success of our 7
#simulationtraining
sessions in
#minimallyinvasive
#mitralvalve
and
#aorticvalve
, which engaged over 105 surgeons: thanks to all participants!
Immense thanks to our project manager Marvin
3D printing a complete heart ❤️
Take a look at our latest innovation: 3D-printing patient-specific full hearts using a unique soft material. Perfect for simulations, procedural planning, and patient education!
#3DPrinting
#HeartSimulation
#PatientSpecific
#Innovation
Today I had the pleasure to welcome two international visiting fellows for advanced training in endoscopic mitral valve surgery; Umar Hamid from Belfast for six months and Rezan Aksoy from Istanbul for 1 month. We started the day with dedicated Heart Team…
Having diner with my dedicated Mitral Heart Team after very successfull Maastricht Mitral Master Webinar with Live-surgery. Colleagues from 41 countries were logged in!
@tomcnguyen
@modine_thomas
@ScanlanInc
Endoscopic mitral valve repair is one of the most difficult procedures to learn. Join
@PeymanSardari
in the Netherlands next month and fine tune your techniques at our Academy course: Endoscopic Port-Access
#MitralValveRepair
Drylab Training. Register 👇
Fully booked! 💥 It’s day 1 of the ‘Endoscopic Port-Access Mitral Valve Repair Drylab Training’ course at
@maastrichtUMC
, directed by
@PeymanSardari
. Attendees can expect a packed programme over the next 2 days working with high-fidelity simulators 👌
#EACTS
#mitralvalverepair
Endoscopic Valve Surgery: A New Era of Training
Thrilled to have lead this week the inaugural two-day Medtronic course titled ‘The Journey to
#endoscopic
Valve Surgery: Simulation Training.’
We offered advanced training in endoscopic
#mitral
and
#aortic
valve surgery,
As is happening: one of the best presidential addresses at a medical conference I ever heard. Truelly visionary talk in besutifull LA
@DrYolondaColson
@AATSHQ
#AATS2023
Extremely honored and pleased to announce the establishment of the Heart Team Academy, a global multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary intellectual enterprise of all involved in the field of cardiovascular medicine to advance pati…
Endoscopic mitral valve repair is one of the most difficult procedures to learn. Join
@PeymanSardari
in the Netherlands next month and fine tune your techniques at our Academy course: Endoscopic Port-Access
#MitralValveRepair
Drylab Training. Register 👇
Our new Innovation: Patient-sp sim based on existing echo data: can track any point through cardiac cycle fused with realtime in-plane biomechanical param. like velocities, strains, forces, divergences, vortices, lengths, distances, and angle etc,
#Cardiology
#cardiology
#mitral
Endoscopic Port-Access
#MitralValveRepair
Drylab Training is back in September! 👏 Don’t miss the opportunity to experience this popular Skills Level 3 course in The Netherlands with course director,
@PeymanSardari
👇
Our new simulation mitral platforms are ready for shipment to participants of the world first hands-on tele-simulation course for endoscopic mitral valve surgery. Fully 3D printed platform, disposable 3D-printed pathologic mitral valve, configurated tabl…
Have you ever seen someone washing a rented car? Ownership!
Ownership is a prerequisite for success and excellence. As a surgeon, when you operate on a patient, you take ownership of the process to ensure its success. However, nothing in life is done in isolation. You need your
**Is the "Heart Team" an elusive concept?**
Our European Survey on
#Heartteam
, initiated by
@HeartTeamAcad
has just been published online.
Structure of multidisciplinary heart teams, a survey based heart team study
A Waste or Not a Waste?
Many hands-on training sessions using simulators being organized at scientific meetings. I've often pondered whether these skill-labs, typically lasting 1-2 hours, are a waste of time, energy, and resources.
I'm excited to share that our study, just
Guilty pleasure!
Yesterday, I arrived in
#NewYork
from Dublin, where I had a meeting with patient organizations about heart disease, for the
#NYvalves2024
(formerly TVT) conference.
Had a giant hotdog in Times Square! Not the best for heart health, but I love hotdogs!
Touched by a Queen!
Today, King Frederik X succeeded his mother as the monarch of
#denmark
, and Princess Mary became the new Queen of Denmark . As I convey my heartfelt congratulations to my Danish friends, I take pride in recalling that, four years ago, the Queen tried her
Extremely important paper as it underlines the veiled "question" of whether in
#cardiovasculardisease
interventions,
#guidelines
are becoming discipline-guided protection of professional interests or scientific-guided protection of
#patient
's interests. Regardless of our
Just published in our
@EACTS_Journals
ICVTS by Giovanni Concistrè et al. Real-world prospective data on sutureless
#aorticvalve
with Perceval!
From 55 centers and including 1652 patients!
Any thoughts?
@rafasadaba
Cardiac surgery is not =sternotomy or any approach. Approaches are tool in toolbox & sternotomy is most standardised tool! More important issues plague the field than fight over incision: lack of RCTs, standardisation, structural training & dominance of STAR-physician mentality!
@RowseMD
Nowdays with 3D reconstruction/ CTs, you shouldn’t find out after sternotomy! About 2yr ago, I did full endoscopic redo MVrep, TVr and maze in pt with gigantic left svc: see here how I cannulated: percutaneous cann R and L SVC under TEE. Operation planned weeks before with “Team”
Today is the start of the 25th European Vascular Course in Maastricht. There is also an excellent cardiovascular surgical program.
This year I am honored to provide my simulations platform for skills lab and provide two lecture on mitral valve surgery.…
Far and away!
It was a great privilege to be invited as one of the keynote speakers at the annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac Thoracic Surgeons ANZSCTS C in
#wellington
,
#newzealand
.
The meeting was fantastic, set in a beautiful location. In
Happy to share our two recent
#publications
(suturing maps for endoscopic mitral valve replacement and endoscopic tricuspid repair) in EACTS - European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery journal MMCTS.
To improve the
#qualityhealthcare
of surgical…
Pursuit of Excellence!
Excited to share my latest editorial on the invaluable lessons I've gleaned and top recommendations in
#simulationtraining
. Check it out! 📖
#surgicaleducation
Do 1- after simulating 10,000!
Very proud to share a video of my international fellow Umar Imran Hamid doing his first annuloplasty band endoscopically after practicing on the simulator for some times now using suture map I developed! Very proud of him a…
Nationwide multicentred real-world data on outcomes of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery compared to sternotomy based on Dutch Heart Registration Nederlandse Hart Registratie (NHR). Overall excellent results for mitral valve…
Delighted to announce restart of in-person two-days airpilot-concept-training for endoscopic mitral surgery. EACTS course, I founded in 2014. Only 15 spots for December course and registration is through
@EACTS
.
@k_musayev
@modine_thomas
#MICS
Imagination is more important than knowledge?
Today I arrived in Italy Bologna on invitation of Professor Davide Pacini. He recenly acquired the simulator I have invented. It was a honor to give a lecture on minimally invasive mitral and train the local…
Do 1- after simulating 10,000!
Very proud to share a video of my international fellow Umar Imran Hamid doing his first annuloplasty band endoscopically after practicing on the simulator for some times now using suture map I developed! Very proud of him a…
Today I had the pleasure of welcoming colleagues from around the world for 23th edition of EACTS - European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery endoscopic
#mitral
valve
#simulationtraining
#training
in Maastricht UMC+.
After the course we had the…
Just published online, our systematic review on
#simulationtraining
in
#cardiacsurgery
:
Main message: in all studies simulation-based training led to improvement in trainees’ confidence, clinical knowledge, and surgical skills (…
26th edition; 11th year running; 10th yr anniversary, based on validated simulators and educational program & for this edition already surgeons registered from Australia, Asia, Middle East, Europe to US! Feel very privileged to continue,,,
@EACTS
Endoscopic Port-Access Mitral Valve Repair Drylab Training with
@PeymanSardari
is back! ⭐️
This course will run from 16 -17 May 2024 in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Expect to get hands-on with a true simulated physical model of endoscopic port-access set-up, where you can
Our latest innovation:
Excited to introduce Aortic Enterprise Hub, for surgical training aortic diseases procedures from sternotomy, endoscopic to robotic-assistance. Featuring 3D-printed patient-specific aorta with integrated valve and full smart device compatibility for
Touchdown!
I'm immensely privileged to announce the opening of our brand-new 550 square meter premises of Simurghy, transitioning from a startup to a scale-up. This includes a Simulation Center, offices, an R&D department, and a 3D-printing lab. Here, we will continue to advance
Nationwide multicentred real-world data on outcomes of minimally invasive mitral valve surgery compared to sternotomy based on Dutch Heart Registration Nederlandse Hart Registratie (NHR). Overall excellent results for mitral valve…
Innovate and Elevate!
Join us next week for the
@AATSHQ
Global grand round webinar on
#minimallyinvasive
#mitralvalve
#surgery
!
Our lineup of experts will present a great program that you won't want to miss. Register now through the AATS website:
"In life, one either learns to become humble or is compelled into humbleness by life itself."
"For a cardiac surgeon at the forefront of the interplay between life and death, the imperative to learn humility becomes even more compelling.”
Reminiscent of my Friday evening visits
First of 4 sessions of
#simulationtraining
in endoscopic mitral repair that I organize with
#medtronic
in Milan during EACTS - European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery annual meeting. Great opportunity for those interested to register for coming 3 sessions.
A decade of education in Endoscopic
#MitralValve
#surgery
Registration for the 26th edition (16-17 May) of the
@EACTS
#simulationtraining
in endoscopic mitral is open. Looking forward welcoming the new cohort in May!
My coronation today!
I have been elevated by my six-year-old daughter to a king for Father’s Day!
If she only knew what my main focus was (
#mitralvalve
), I would have been elevated to Lord of the Rings!
Anyhow, this is more than my fair share in life and I am extremely
Thrilled to announce World’s first hands-on tele-simulation course for
#mics
mitral through
@HeartTeamAcad
. After conceptualization in June, prototype in Oct, we have final model ready for first tele-simulation course for 10 surgeons from anywhere in the World.
#Mitral
I am at the airport heading to London for PCR London Valve. Tomorrow will speak and be interviewed by my friend thomas modine about the Heart Team Academy. Perfect venue to promote the concept of the heart team and the cause of the Academy. Looking forwa…
Honored and very pleased for re-start of this established program. Already registrations from across continents. Still few spaces available. See for registrations eacts website. thomas modine Dr. Alex Benevides Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Weymann, FECTS, FE…