Dr. Alfredo Trento - Heart Surgeon in Los Angeles, California

Vice Chair of Outreach & Business DevelopmentCardiac Surgery

Director EmeritusCardiothoracic Surgery

ProfessorSurgery

Specialty

Surgery-Cardio-Thoracic

Research Profile

The research of Alfredo Trento, MD, focuses on several areas: heart and heart-lung transplantation procedures, graft atherosclerosis (and ways to prevent it by creating an animal model of heart transplantation and using different immunosuppressant agents) and the process of calcification and degeneration of valve bioprosthesis.

Cedars-Sinai Affiliations

Awards & Activities

  • Estelle, Abe, and Marjorie Sanders Chair in Cardiac Surgery, 2002
  • American Association for Thoracic Surgery, 1997
  • International Society of Heart Failure, 1995
  • Western Thoracic Surgical Association, 1994
  • The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, 1991

Publications

  • Goland S, Czer LS, De Robertis MA, Mirocha J, Kass RM, Fontana GP, Chang W, Trento A. Risk factors associated with reoperation and mortality in 252 patients after aortic valve replacement for congenitally bicuspid aortic valve disease. Ann Thorac Surg. 2007;83(3):931-937.
  • Goland S, Czer LS, Kass RM, De Robertis MA, Mirocha J, Coleman B, Capelli C, Raissi S, Cheng W, Fontana G, Trento A. Pre-existing pulmonary hypertension in patients with end-stage heart failure: impact on clinical outcome and hemodynamic follow-up after orthotopic heart transplantation.J Heart Lung Transplant. 2007;26(4):312-318.
  • Goland S, Czer LS, Kass RM, Siegel RJ, Mirocha J, De Robertis MA, Lee J, Raissi S, Cheng W, Fontana G, Trento A. Use of cardiac allografts with mild and moderate left ventricular hypertrophy can be safely used in heart transplantation to expand the donor pool. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008;51(12):1214-1220.

Languages Spoken

English / Italian

Clinical Office

Smidt Heart Institute
127 S San Vicente Blvd #A3600
Los Angeles, CA
90048

Phone: 310-423-3851

Fax: 310-423-0246

Source: https://bio.cedars-sinai.org/trento/index.html

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