Myrto Kastanaki ANESTHESIOLOGIST

•  “Gastric tonometry in cardiac surgery patients”. University of Athens (in progress)

• European Society of Anesthesiology (ESA)
• European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology (EACTA)

• Cardiac Anesthesiologist – Hygeia Hospital (since 2013)

Clinical Interest:

• Αdministration of anesthesia in cardiac surgery (3500 operations), thoracic, orthopedic and general surgery. Intraoperative transesophageal echo.
   

Research Interest: 

• Heart failure operations (ventricular assist device implantation)

• The paper “Left ventricular surgical remodeling for the treatment of end-stage heart failure” awarded in 29^th Panhellenic Congress of Cardiology

• VATS bullectomy and apical pleurectomy for spontaneous pneumothorax in a young patient with Swyer-James-Mc Leod syndrome: case report presentation and literature review focusing on surgically treated cases. J Cardiothorac Surg. 2014 Jan 10;9:13