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Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD
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Chief, Section of Cardiac Surgery
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California Man Travels to UChicago Medicine for Life-saving Bloodless Heart Transplant from the Nation’s Most Experienced Team

When 50-year-old San Francisco native Lane Jenkins could no longer manage his failing heart with medication and minimally invasive interventions, he faced a moral and physical dilemma: Jenkins needed a heart transplant, but his faith as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses required the surgery be done bloodlessly—without the use of blood products or transfusions.

“A bloodless surgery is extremely important based on Bible principles that blood is sacred. It’s a life decision that I will not take blood.”

Lane Jenkins, UChicago Medicine patient

Bloodless heart surgery is a safe alternative for patients who have serious heart conditions but cannot or choose not to receive any blood or blood products (red cells, white cells, plasma or platelets). During bloodless heart surgery, physicians use meticulous surgical techniques and innovative procedures that minimize surgical blood loss and avoid the need for a transfusion during surgery.

Bloodless heart transplants are incredibly complicated and require an experienced and willing surgical team. Jenkins suffered from congestive heart failure and had additional health concerns that made his procedure even more complex. Despite visiting some of the top hospitals on the West Coast, he was unable to find a surgeon willing to perform his heart transplant bloodlessly.

He expanded his search with the help of the national Hospital Liaison Committee for Jehovah’s Witnesses and found the nation’s most experienced bloodless heart transplant surgeon: Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD, Co-Director of the University of Chicago Medicine’s Heart and Vascular Center. Jeevanandam and the UChicago Medicine Advanced Heart Failure team worked with Jenkins and his family, and were confident they could deliver him a successful outcome while respecting his faith.

“What makes us able to help these patients that other people won’t operate on is a superlative team that we’ve created,” Jeevanandam said.

“What makes us able to help these patients that other people won’t operate on is a superlative team that we’ve created.”

Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD

“That starts with our cardiologists, and they understand what Jehovah’s Witnesses need. Then you have the surgical team. We have a specific group of surgeons, physician assistants, nurses and perfusionists that take care of these patients; everybody’s in sync.”

Jenkins matched with a donor heart in a little over one week, and his May 2021 transplant was a success. The real estate investor is living in Naperville, Illinois, while he continues to recover and regain his strength, and credits the UChicago Medicine team with saving his life.

“My life is fabulous, actually,” Jenkins said. “To be able to do all the activities I was doing without being hampered with being tired or fatigued—I can’t describe the feeling.”

From left to right: Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD and Lane Jenkins

“When you’re at the University of Chicago Medicine and you see how regularly they do bloodless transplants, it puts you at ease.”

Lane Jenkins

From left to right: Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD and Lane Jenkins

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faculty listing

Professor of Surgery
Husam H. Balkhy, MD, Professor of Surgery; Director, Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Mahesh P. Gupta, PhD, Professor of Surgery
Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD, Cynthia Chow Professor of Surgery; Chief, Section of Cardiac Surgery; Director, Heart and Vascular Center
Takeyoshi Ota, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery; Co-Director, Center for Aortic Diseases
Christopher Salerno, MD, Professor of Surgery; Director, Adult Cardiac Surgery; Surgical Director, Heart Transplantation and MCS
Luca Vricella, MD, Professor of Surgery; Chief, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Associate Professor of Surgery
Narutoshi Hibino, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Tae H. Song, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery; Surgical Director, Lung Transplantation; Director, MCS/ECMO Program

Clinical Associate of Surgery
Chawki El-Zein, MD, Clinical Associate of Surgery
Hidefumi Nishida, MD, Clinical Associate of Surgery
David Onsager, MD, Clinical Associate of Surgery

faculty honors

The Section of Cardiac Surgery has been recognized as having the best heart transplant program in the U.S. based on Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) data.

Husam H. Balkhy, MD, became a member of the Taskforce on Heart Valve Disease for the International Consortium for Health Outcomes (ICHOM). He was selected to receive the BSD Distinguished Leader in Program Innovation Award (senior faculty category), which recognizes highly talented members of our faculty for their excellence in developing innovative programs. Dr. Balkhy was nominated by his faculty peers and selected by the Faculty Advisory Committee and the Dean to be honored with this award that recognizes the robotic cardiac surgery program.

Takeyoshi Ota, MD, PhD, was assigned as a National Institutes of Health review board member. He was promoted to Professor of Surgery.

Luca Vricella, MD, was awarded the 2021 Golden Heart Award by the Conquering Heart Disease Foundation.

faculty promotions

Takeyoshi Ota, MD, PhD, Associate Professor to Professor, effective July 1, 2021

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Husam H. Balkhy, MD

Van Praet KM, Kofler M, Shafti TZN, El Al AA, van Kampen A, Amabile A, Torregrossa G, Kempfert J, Falk V, Balkhy HH, Jacobs S. Minimally Invasive Coronary Revascularisation Surgery: A Focused Review of the Available Literature. Interv Cardiol. 2021 Apr; 16:e08. PMID: 34295373.

Viox D, Dhawan R, Balkhy HH, Cormican D, Bhatt H, Savadjian A, Chaney MA. Unilateral Pulmonary Edema After Robotically Assisted Mitral Valve Repair Requiring Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2021 Apr 05. PMID: 33975792.

Thourani VH, Edelman JJ, Holmes SD, Nguyen TC, Carroll J, Mack MJ, Kapadia S, Tang GHL, Kodali S, Kaneko T, Meduri CU, Forcillo J, Ferdinand FD, Fontana G, Suwalski P, Kiaii B, Balkhy H, Kempfert J, Cheung A, Borger MA, Reardon M, Leon MB, Popma JJ, Ad N. The International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Expert Consensus Statement on Transcatheter and Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Low- and Intermediate-Risk Patients: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized and Propensity-Matched Studies. Innovations (Phila). 2021 Jan-Feb; 16(1):3-16. PMID: 33491539.

Andrade D, Vinck EE, Parra JF, Balkhy HH, Núñez F. Robotic Cardiac Surgery in Colombia: Overcoming the Challenges of a Middle-income Setting. Braz J Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 12 01; 35(6):990-993. PMID: 33306326.

Balkhy HH, Nathan S, Torregrossa G, Kitahara H, Nisivaco S, McCrorey M, Patel B. Angiographic patency after robotic beating heart totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting facilitated by automated distal anastomotic connectors. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2020 10 01; 31(4):467-474. PMID: 33091933.

Amabile A, Torregrossa G, Balkhy HH. Robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass grafting: current knowledge and future perspectives. Minerva Cardioangiol. 2020 Oct; 68(5):497-510. PMID: 33155785.

Balkhy HH, Nisivaco S, Tung A, Torregrossa G, Mehta S. Does Intolerance of Single-Lung Ventilation Preclude Robotic Off-Pump Totally Endoscopic Coronary Bypass Surgery? Innovations (Phila). 2020 Sep/Oct; 15(5):456-462. PMID: 32776814.

Torregrossa G, Balkhy HH. The role of robotic totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in the future of coronary artery revascularization. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2020 08 01; 58(2):217-220. PMID: 32310268.

Mirzai S, Yang B, Mitzman B, Torregrossa G, Balkhy HH. Robotic Repair of Adult Left-Sided Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection. Ann Thorac Surg. 2021 02; 111(2):e77-e79. PMID: 32693036.

Torregrossa G, Amabile A, Balkhy HH. Totally robotic sutured coronary artery bypass grafting: How we do it. JTCVS Tech. 2020 Sep; 3:170-172. PMID: 34317858.

Mirzai S, Hibino N, Torregrossa G, Balkhy HH. Adult Ventricular Septal Defect Repair Using a Robotic Totally Endoscopic Approach: A Case Report. Innovations (Phila). 2020 Jul/Aug; 15(4):372-375. PMID: 32403961.

Rosati CM, Torregrossa G, Balkhy HH, Puskas JD. Dedicated training in advanced coronary surgery: Need and opportunity. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Jun; 161(6):2130-2134. PMID: 32482407.

Putnam AJ, Kebed K, Mor-Avi V, Rashedi N, Sun D, Patel B, Balkhy H, Lang RM, Patel AR. Prevalence of mitral annular disjunction in patients with mitral valve prolapse and severe regurgitation. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2020 Jul; 36(7):1363-1370. PMID: 32221771.

Torregrossa G, Amabile A, Fonceva A, Hosseinian L, Williams EE, Balkhy HH, Ramakrishna H. Outcomes in Complete Arterial Coronary Revascularization. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2020 Dec; 34(12):3444-3448. PMID: 32359710.

Narutoshi Hibino, MD, PhD

Liu X, Kim B, Loke YH, Mass P, Olivieri L, Hibino N, Fuge M, Krieger A. Semi-Automatic Planning and Three-dimensional Electrospinning of Patient-Specific Grafts for Fontan Surgery. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2021 Jun 22; PP. PMID: 34156934.

Lui C, Chin AF, Park S, Yeung E, Kwon C, Tomaselli G, Chen Y, Hibino N. Mechanical stimulation enhances development of scaffold-free, 3D-printed, engineered heart tissue grafts. J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2021 05; 15(5):503-512. PMID: 33749089.

Fukunishi T, Ong CS, He YJ, Inoue T, Zhang H, Steppan J, Matsushita H, Johnson J, Santhanam L, Hibino N. Fast-degrading TEVGs Lead to Increased ECM Cross-linking Enzymes Expression. Tissue Eng Part A. 2021 Feb 18. PMID: 3359916.

He YJ, Santana MF, Staneviciute A, Pimentel MB, Yang F, Goes J, Kawaji K, Vaicik MK, Abdulhadi R, Hibino N, Papavasiliou G. Cell-Laden Gradient Hydrogel Scaffolds for Neovascularization of Engineered Tissues. Adv Healthc Mater. 2021 04; 10(7):e2001706. PMID: 33511790.

Li W, Cohen W, Combs P, Wong J, Loomba R, Lee BK, El-Zein C, Ilbawi M, Vricella L, Hibino N. Aortic root aneurysm repair in a neonate with Loeys-Dietz syndrome. Cardiol Young. 2021 May; 31(5):848-850. PMID: 33487195.

Hoang R, Cohen W, Mukadam S, Combs P, Husayni T, El-Zein C, Vricella L, Hibino N. Pulmonary hypertension and mitral regurgitation in an infant with an anatomically normal mitral valve. Cardiol Young. 2021 Mar; 31(3):476-478. PMID: 33272339.

Abdulkarim M, Weld J, Cohen W, Combs P, Patel D, El-Zein C, Ilbawi M, Vricella L, Hibino N. Congenitally Abnormal Aortic Valve Causing Coronary Obstruction and Cardiac Arrest in Infancy. Ann Thorac Surg. 2021 05; 111(5):e339-e341. PMID: 33069680.

Aslan S, Mass P, Loke YH, Warburton L, Liu X, Hibino N, Olivieri L, Krieger A. Non-invasive Prediction of Peak Systolic Pressure Drop across Coarctation of Aorta using Computational Fluid Dynamics. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2020 07; 2020:2295-2298. PMID: 33018466.

Liu X, Aslan S, Hess R, Mass P, Olivieri L, Loke YH, Hibino N, Fuge M, Krieger A. Automatic Shape Optimization of Patient-Specific Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts for Aortic Coarctation. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2020 07; 2020:2319-2323. PMID: 33018472.

Kimicata M, Allbritton-King JD, Navarro J, Santoro M, Inoue T, Hibino N, Fisher JP. Assessment of decellularized pericardial extracellular matrix and poly(propylene fumarate) biohybrid for small-diameter vascular graft applications. Acta Biomater. 2020 07 01; 110:68-81. PMID: 32305447.

Loke YH, Kim B, Mass P, Opfermann JD, Hibino N, Krieger A, Olivieri L. Role of surgeon intuition and computer-aided design in Fontan optimization: A computational fluid dynamics simulation study. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 07; 160(1):203-212.e2. PMID: 32057454.

Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD

Kohli U, Jeevanandam V, Patel AR. Rare Variant of Shone Complex. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 06; 14(6):e012317. PMID: 34034510.

Symalla T, Peev MP, Song T, Naftel D, Myers S, Koehl D, Cantor RS, Pinney S, Jeevanandam V. STS INTERMACS Database: The Key to Conduct Single-arm Trials in Advanced Heart Failure Patients. Ann Thorac Surg. 2021 Apr 27. PMID: 33930360.

Cotter TG, Wang J, Peeraphatdit T, Sandikçi B, Ayoub F, Kim G, Te H, Jeevanandam V, Sabato D, Charlton M. Simultaneous Heart-Liver Transplantation for Congenital Heart Disease in the United States: Rapidly Increasing With Acceptable Outcomes. Hepatology. 2021 Apr; 73(4):1464-1477. PMID: 32559317.

Narang N, Dela Cruz M, Imamura T, Chung B, Nguyen AB, Holzhauser L, Smith BA, Kalantari S, Raikhelkar J, Sarswat N, Kim GH, Jeevanandam V, Burkhoff D, Sayer G, Uriel N. Discordance between lactic acidemia and hemodynamics in patients with advanced heart failure. Clin Cardiol. 2021 May; 44(5):636-645. PMID: 33734459.

Stonebraker C, Lee A, Siddiqi U, Lupo S, Brownlee AR, Yang B, Combs P, Jeevanandam V. A model for continued LVAD patient success: A 4-year readmission-free HeartMate 3 postoperative course. J Card Surg. 2021 Mar; 36(3):1159-1161. PMID: 33533108.

Henry M, Abutaleb A, Jeevanandam V, Smith H, Belkin M, Husain A, Pinney S, Ota T, Lang RM, Addetia K. Anatomic Description of Tricuspid Apparatus Interference From Implantable Intracardiac Devices. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2021 Feb 02. PMID: 33582061.

Sayer G, Medvedofsky D, Imamura T, Kim G, Maffessanti F, Fried J, Kruse E, Addetia K, Mor-Avi V, Jeevanandam V, Lang RM, Uriel N. Short-Term Ventricular Structural Changes Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. ASAIO J. 2021 02 01; 67(2):169-176. PMID: 32657830.

Imamura T, Narang N, Combs P, Siddiqi U, Mirzai S, Stonebraker C, Bullard H, Simone P, Jeevanandam V. Impact of plasma volume status on mortality following left ventricular assist device implantation. Artif Organs. 2021 Jun; 45(6):587-592. PMID: 33236371.

Campbell PA, Dorsey C, Jeevanandam V, Milner R. Alternate Approach to Concomitant Carotid and Coronary Disease: Perioperative IABP Use during Carotid Endarterectomy. Ann Vasc Surg. 2021 Apr; 72:663.e9-663.e13. PMID: 33285271.

Grinstein J, Garan AR, Oesterle A, Fried J, Imamura T, Mai X, Kalantari S, Sayer G, Kim GH, Sarswat N, Raikhelkar J, Adatya S, Jeevanandam V, Flatley E, Moss J, Uriel N. Increased Rate of Pump Thrombosis and Cardioembolic Events Following Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation in Patients Supported With Left Ventricular Assist Devices. ASAIO J. 2020 Nov/Dec; 66(10):1127-1136. PMID: 33136600.

Imamura T, Narang N, Kim G, Nitta D, Fujino T, Nguyen A, Grinstein J, Rodgers D, Ota T, Raikhelkar J, Jeevanandam V, Sayer G, Uriel N. Impact of worsening of aortic insufficiency during HeartMate 3 LVAD support. Artif Organs. 2021 Mar; 45(3):297-302. PMID: 33098153.

Koda Y, Nishida H, Jeevanandam V, Ota T. Orthotopic heart transplantation with persistent left superior vena cava draining into coronary sinus: the anterior rerouting technique. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Apr; 69(4):673-678. PMID: 33040256.

Meehan KA, Suresh A, Combs PS, Jeevanandam V. An International Study on Ventricular Assist Device Program Models. Prog Transplant. 2020 12; 30(4):355-359. PMID: 32954968.

Imamura T, Combs P, Siddiqi U, Mirzai S, Stonebraker C, Bullard H, Simone P, Jeevanandam V. Perioperative improvement in serum albumin level in patients with left ventricular assist device. J Card Surg. 2020 Nov; 35(11):3070-3077. PMID: 32939865.

Imamura T, Combs P, Siddiqi U, Cohen W, Besser S, LaBuhn C, Mirzai S, Jeevanandam V. Winter LVAD implantation is associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Int J Artif Organs. 2021 Mar; 44(3):188-193. PMID: 32907458.

Nishida H, Koda Y, Kalantari S, Nguyen A, Chung B, Grinstein J, Kim G, Sarswat N, Smith B, Song T, Onsager D, Jeevanandam V, Ota T. Outcomes of Ambulatory Axillary Intraaortic Balloon Pump as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation. Ann Thorac Surg. 2021 04; 111(4):1264-1270. PMID: 32882197.

Kitahara H, Raikhelkar J, Kim G, Sarswat N, Sayer G, Uriel N, Song T, Onsager D, Jeevanandam V, Ota T. Correction to: A subcostal approach is favorable compared to sternotomy for left ventricular assist device exchange. J Artif Organs. 2020 Sep; 23(3):302. PMID: 32638142.

Combs P, Cohen W, Siddiqi UA, Jeevanandam V. An international survey: Tobacco smoking cessation strategies within left ventricular assist device centers. Int J Artif Organs. 2021 Feb; 44(2):110-114. PMID: 32779494.

Imamura T, Combs P, Siddiqi U, Besser S, Juricek C, Mirzai S, Jeevanandam V. Sex difference in the impact of smoking on left ventricular assist device outcomes. J Card Surg. 2020 Nov; 35(11):2913-2919. PMID: 32741008.

Imamura T, Mehta P, Nguyen A, Chung B, Narang N, Rodgers D, Raikhelkar J, Smith B, Song T, Ota T, Jeevanandam V, Kim G, Sayer G, Uriel N. Neurohormonal Blockade During Left Ventricular Assist Device Support. ASAIO J. 2020 08; 66(8):881-885. PMID: 32740347.

Imamura T, Narang N, Nitta D, Fujino T, Nguyen A, Kim G, Raikhelkar J, Rodgers D, Ota T, Jeevanandam V, Sayer G, Uriel N. Optimal cannula positioning of HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device. Artif Organs. 2020 Dec; 44(12):e509-e519. PMID: 32557769.

Mirzai S, Saleh S, Balkhy HH, Shah AP, Jeevanandam V, Blair JEA. Urgent Open Atrial Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement as Bailout for Planned Surgery. JACC Case Rep. 2020 Jul; 2(8):1115-1119. PMID: 34317429.

Nishida H, Song T, Jeevanandam V, Babrowski TA, Milner R. Successful endovascular repair of aortic rupture caused by axillary intra-aortic balloon insertion for a Jehovah’s Witness patient with situs inversus anomaly. J Card Surg. 2020 Sep; 35(9):2410-2413. PMID: 32652620.

Imamura T, Narang N, Kim G, Nitta D, Fujino T, Nguyen A, Grinstein J, Rodgers D, Ota T, Jeevanandam V, Sayer G, Uriel N. Aortic Insufficiency During HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device Support. J Card Fail. 2020 Oct; 26(10):863-869. PMID: 32473380.

Prachand VN, Milner R, Angelos P, Posner MC, Fung JJ, Agrawal N, Jeevanandam V, Matthews JB. Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive Procedures: Scoring System to Ethically and Efficiently Manage Resource Scarcity and Provider Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Am Coll Surg. 2020 Aug; 231(2):281-288. PMID: 32278725.

Combs P, Imamura T, Siddiqi U, Spiller RE, Williamson R, Mirzai S, Symalla T, LaBuhn C, Jeevanandam V. Effect of tobacco smoking on outcomes after left ventricular assist device implantation. Artif Organs. 2020 Jul; 44(7):693-699. PMID: 32017136.

Fujino T, Imamura T, Nitta D, Kim G, Smith B, Kalantari S, Nguyen A, Chung B, Narang N, Holzhauser L, Juricek C, Rodgers D, Song T, Ota T, Jeevanandam V, Burkhoff D, Sayer G, Uriel N. Effect of Concomitant Tricuspid Valve Surgery With Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 09; 110(3):918-924. PMID: 32035052.

Imamura T, Narang N, Nitta D, Fujino T, Nguyen A, Chung B, Holzhauser L, Kim G, Raikhelkar J, Kalantari S, Smith B, Juricek C, Rodgers D, Ota T, Song T, Jeevanandam V, Sayer G, Uriel N. HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device Cannula Position and Hemocompatibility-Related Adverse Events. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 09; 110(3):911-917. PMID: 32035046.

Symalla T, Jeevanandam V. An ambulatory counterpulsation system-a potential option for extended mechanical support. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Aug; 36(Suppl 2):275-278. PMID: 33061211.

Symalla T, Jeevanandam V. Choosing the appropriate left ventricular assist device for your patient. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Aug; 36(Suppl 2):256-264. PMID: 33061210.

Takeyoshi Ota, MD, PhD

Huckaby LV, Sultan I, Trimarchi S, Leshnower B, Chen EP, Brinster DR, Myrmel T, Estrera AL, Montgomery DG, Korach A, Eckstein HH, Coselli JS, Ota T, Kaiser CA, Eagle KA, Patel HJ, Gleason TG. Sex-Based Aortic Dissection Outcomes From the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection. Ann Thorac Surg. 2021 May 27. PMID: 34090668.

Nishida H, Ota T. Commentary: Myocardial recovery: A good thing but challenging. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Jan 30. PMID: 3365360.

Pocivavsek L, Bishop E, Khabaz K, Ota T, Skelly C, Hampton D. Simultaneous injury to the inferior vena cava and the intrathoracic aorta. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2020 12; 89(6):e170-e172. PMID: 32868540.

Luca Vricella, MD

Vricella LA, El-Zein C, Hibino N, Rausa J, Roberson D, Ilbawi MN. Technical Modifications that Might Improve Long-Term Outcome of the Ross Procedure in Children. Ann Thorac Surg. 2021 Mar 29. PMID: 33794157.

Loomba RS, Lee B, Phillips M, Vricella L, Wong J. Covid-19 in an infant with systemic to pulmonary artery shunt dependent functionally univentricular physiology. Cardiol Young. 2020 Dec 17; 1-14. PMID: 33327982.

Vricella LA. Valve-Sparing Operations: What We Know and What We Don’t Know. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2020 09; 11(5):545-547. PMID: 32853057.

Elzein C, Urbas C, Hughes B, Li Y, Lefaiver C, Ilbawi M, Vricella L. Efficacy of Nitric Oxide Administration in Attenuating Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury During Neonatal Cardiopulmonary Bypass. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2020 07; 11(4):417-423. PMID: 32645771.

Parker DM, Everett AD, Stabler ME, Jacobs ML, Jacobs JP, Vricella L, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Parikh CR, Manlhiot C, Brown JR. ST2 Predicts Risk of Unplanned Readmission Within 1 Year After Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery. Ann Thorac Surg. 2020 12; 110(6):2070-2075. PMID: 32246937.

Schoenhoff FS, Alejo DE, Black JH, Crawford TC, Dietz HC, Grimm JC, Magruder JT, Patel ND, Vricella LA, Young A, Carrel TP, Cameron DE. Management of the aortic arch in patients with Loeys-Dietz syndrome. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Nov; 160(5):1166-1175. PMID: 31627951.

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