Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos CARDIAC SURGEON

• Clinical Doctorate, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece : “Mid and long-term results of endovascular stent-grafts placement in the thoracic aorta”

• Fellow of the European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons (F.E.T.C.S.)
• General Medical Council (GMC), United Kingdom, Full Registration with a license to practice on the Specialist Register in Cardio-thoracic Surgery.
• European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS).
• The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS, USA).
• Member of The Hellenic Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
• Member of the Athens & Patras Medical Associations, Greece.

Editorial Boards:

• AD-HOC REVIEWER for peer-reviewed international journals
• Annals of Thoracic Surgery
• Aorta
• Angiology.

• Attending Physician, 2nd Cardiac Surgery Clinic, HYGEIA Hospital, Athens, Greece
• L. Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, UK.
• Aortic Surgery Fellow, Baylor St’ Luke’s Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA.
• Clinical Fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart & Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Main Campus, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• Clinical Instructor, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart/Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Stanford University Medical Center, CA, USA.
• Clinical Fellow, Cardiovascular Surgery, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
• Clinical Fellow, Cardiovascular Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
• Trainee in Cardiothoracic Surgery, “Evaggelismos” General Hospital, Athens, Greece & Southampton General Hospital, United Kingdom.

Education Experience:

• L. Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, UK.
• Clinical Instructor, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart/Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Stanford University Medical Center, CA, USA.

• Open & Endovascular (TEVAR) Aortic Surgery
• Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) Surgery
• Aortic, Mitral & Tricuspid Valve Repair/Replacement
• Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVI/TAVR)
• Heart Failure Surgery: Heart & Lung Transplantation, Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD, Impella, ECMO etc)

• European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2018 Jan 22. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezx502. [Epub ahead of print] Management of expanding aortic arch aneurysm after hybrid endovascular and debranching repair. K. Spiliotopoulos,…, Joseph S. Coselli.
• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017 Dec 19. pii: S0022-5223(17)32893-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.11.095. [Epub ahead of print] In elective arch surgery with circulatory arrest, does the arterial cannulation site really matter? A propensity score analysis of right axillary and innominate artery cannulation. O. Preventza,…, Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos,…,Joseph S. Coselli.
• Respir Med Case Rep. 2017 Oct 31;23:1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2017.10.014. eCollection 2018. Successful treatment of postoperative massive pulmonary embolism with paradoxal arterial embolism through extracorporeal life support and thrombolysis. Grapatsas K, Leivaditis V,…,Spiliotopoulos K et al.
• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017 Aug 26. pii: S0022-5223(17)31783-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.08.023. [Epub ahead of print] Open descending thoracic or thoracoabdominal aortic approaches for complications of endovascular aortic procedures: 19-year experience K. Spiliotopoulos,…, S. A. LeMaire, J. S. Coselli.
• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017 Oct;154(4):1203-1214.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.05.089. Epub 2017 Jun 3. PMID:28668459 Are outcomes of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair different in men vs women? A propensity-matched comparison K. Spiliotopoulos,…, J. S. Coselli, S. A. LeMaire.
• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 Nov 16. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.10.090 [Epub ahead of print] Aortic root surgery with circulatory arrest: predictors of prolonged postoperative hospital stay. O. Preventza, JS Coselli,…, K. Spiliotopoulos,…, DA Cooley.
• Texas Heart institute Journal, DOI 10.14503/THIJ-16-5985 Repair of an Intrapericardial Diaphragmatic Hernia During Aortic Surgery in an Adult K. Spiliotopoulos,…, J. S. Coselli.
• General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 Jun 17; DOI 10.1007/s11748-016-0658-8. Open aortic surgery after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. Joseph S. Coselli, K. Spiliotopoulos et al.
• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014 Dec;148(6):2956-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.08.019. Epub 2014 Aug 14. Endovascular Repair for Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury: 11 years outcomes and post-operative surveillance experience. K. Spiliotopoulos,…, C. Charitos.
• Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2012 Apr;143(4 Suppl):S74-7. Epub 2011 Nov 20. Does the Mitral Valve Prosthesis Adversely Affect the Hemodynamic Performance of the Aortic Valve Prosthesis in Patients with Double Valve Replacement? K. Spiliotopoulos,…, T. David.