Randolph Martin, MD, speaks with Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, and Maral Ouzounian, MD, about the lifetime management of patients with aortic stenosis and aortic insufficiency. These prominent Aortic Surgeons discuss various treatment options. They explain that the goal of surgery is to put patients back on a normal long-term survival curve.
The doctors believe the field has evolved in a thoughtful way because there is more interaction between mitral and aortic surgeons, who work together to perform reconstructive aortic and mitral surgeries concomitantly. Dr. El-Hamamsy discusses expanding the concept of mitral valve repair reference centers to the aortic field - with multi-valve reconstruction surgeries being performed only at centers where reference mitral and aortic surgeons work together.
Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD
Randall B. Griepp Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
System Director of Aortic Surgery
Mount Sinai Health System
Maral Ouzounian, MD, PhD
Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery
UHN Toronto
Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Toronto
Randolph P. Martin, MD
Clinical Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
About the AATS Mitral Conclave:
David H. Adams, MD, and Anelechi C. Anyanwu, MD, serve as the Program Directors of the AATS Mitral Conclave - a meeting that Dr. Adams created with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in 2011. The biennial meeting brings the world’s leading experts together to examine all aspects of mitral valve disease, associated conditions, and treatment. The meeting featured more than 350 presentations, 40 focused breakout or lunch sessions, combined with four main plenary sessions - with over 900 attendees from 52 countries.