Cardiothoracic Surgery research

Our Cardiothoracic Unit performs a full range of adult cardiac and thoracic surgery including minimally invasive valve operations, off-pump surgery and aortic surgery, as well as providing statewide heart and lung transplant services.

About our research

The Alfred's transplant program is supported by the mechanical assist device program, which involves 20-30 Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) implants per year as well as supporting a busy extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program.

Our research is focussed on:

  • Improving outcomes in heart and lung transplantation, particularly donor organ optimisation and preservation
  • Innovations in cardiothoracic surgery, including sutureless valves, bidirectional ECMO cannulae and new generation VADs

We support a busy trauma service at The Alfred and continue rib fixation research for severe chest wall injuries.

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Cardiothoracic Surgery clinical trials

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Publications

First 5-year multicentric clinical trial experience with the HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist system

Netuka I, Pya Y, Zimpfer D, Potapov E, Garbade J, Rao V, Morshuis M, Beyersdorf F, Marasco S, Sood P, Gazzola C, Schmitto JD

(2021), J HEART LUNG TRANSPL, 40(4), 247-50

DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2021.01.001

Finally, that weight is off my chest! Giant pericardial cyst causing acute right heart failure 11 years after incidental diagnosis

Zhu MZL, Gangahanumaiah S, Rowe K, Lefkovits L, Gooi JH

(2021), EUR HEART J-CARD IMG, 22(5), e16

DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jeaa230

ECMO (extra corporeal membrane oxygenation) in major trauma: A 10 year single centre experience.

Amos T, Bannon-Murphy H, Yeung M, Gooi J, Marasco S, Udy A, Fitzgerald M

(2021), Injury, 52(9), 2515-21

DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2021.03.058

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