Vice Chair of Outreach & Business Development, Cardiac Surgery
Director Emeritus, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Professor, Surgery
Specialty
Surgery-Cardio-Thoracic
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.
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
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