About Haytham Elgharably, MD

Haytham Elgharably, MD, is a surgeon in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute. He sees patients at Cleveland Clinic main campus.

Specialty Interests: Lung transplantation, mitral and aortic valve repair and replacement surgery, bypass surgery, surgery for thoracic aortic aneurysm, reoperations, endocarditis (infection of the heart lining), constrictive pericarditis (inflammation of the tissue that surrounds the heart), right heart failure, surgery for acute and chronic pulmonary emboli (blood clots)

Education: Dr. Elgharably earned his medical degree from Zagazig University and completed an internship in cardiothoracic surgery at Zagazig University Hospital, both in Alsharqiya, Egypt. He continued his training as a resident in cardiac surgery at the Egyptian National Heart Institute, Cairo.  Dr. Elgharably came to the United States in 2011 for a research fellowship in wound healing and biofilm infection at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Following that fellowship, he completed his specialty training at Cleveland Clinic with a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery followed by a residency in integrated thoracic surgery. He joined the Cleveland Clinic medical staff in 2019 on completion of his residency.

Experience and Outcomes: Cleveland Clinic consistently performs more lung transplants each year than most or all hospitals in the United States. In 2018 physicians in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery performed 113 lung transplants. Among 243 patients who had a lung transplant at Cleveland Clinic between January 2014 and June 2016, the one-year graft and patient survival rates at Cleveland Clinic were better than the expected rates from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, July 2017.

Research, Publications and Speaking: As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Elgharably participated in several research studies related to wound healing, including a preclinical study of antimicrobial-resistant burn wound infection in soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. He currently is an investigator on a study that seeks to classify right heart failure to stratify surgical risk and an early-stage study related to preventing ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) in lung transplant to reduce the failure rate. Dr. Elgharably has co-authored five book chapters and nearly three dozen scientific papers published in leading medical and surgical journals. He also has presented on topics in cardiac and thoracic surgery and wound healing at national medical meetings.
 
About Dr. Elgharably: “My greatest passion about the field of heart surgery and lung transplantation is the ability to help people through a desperate time of their lives after which they can get back to enjoying what they like to do and spending more time with their families. I have a particular passion about scientific research in medicine as the key to better understanding the root of any given disease and discover novel therapies to help patients.”

Leisure Activities: Dr. Elgharably is an avid outdoorsman. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, kayaking, boating and travel with his family.

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Treatment & Services

• Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Airway and Lung Conditions
• Aorta Graft
• Aorta Surgery
• Aortic Dissection
• Aortic Valve Repair
• Aortic Valve Replacement
• Aortic Valve Surgery
• Arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
• Arterial Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts

Specialty in Diseases & Conditions

• Acquired Adult Cardiac Disease
• Acquired Valve Disease
• Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
• Aorta Disease
• Aortic Aneurysms
• Aortic Insufficiency
• Aortic Regurgitation
• Aortic Stenosis
• Aortic Valve Disease
• Aortic Valve Regurgitation

Source: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/staff/25218-haytham-elgharably