Clinical Professor of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Cary W. Akins, MD
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Cary W. Akins practices Thoracic Surgery. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a one of the best medicals schools. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care He has 5 awards "Top MD", "Fellow (FACC)", "Super Doctor", "Fellow (FACS)" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Dr. Cary W. Akins is also published. He has 93 publications published. The lastest publication: "Combined carotid endarterectomy and coronary revascularization operation.'
Publications
- Aortic valve and ascending aorta guidelines for management and quality measures.
- The Impact of Aortic Valve Replacement for Aortic Stenosis on Mitral Valve Dynamics: A Surgeon's View.
- Aortic valve and ascending aorta guidelines for management and quality measures: executive summary.
- An issue of accountability.
- The ethical dilemma of Thoracic Surgery recertification.
- Historical perspectives of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Mortimer J. Buckley (1932-2007).
- Energy loss for evaluating Heart valve performance.
- The crossed swords sign: insights into the dilemma of repair in bileaflet mitral Valve prolapse.
- The Editor's Roundtable: cardiac Valve surgery.
- Aortic valve replacement in patients with previous cardiac surgery.
- Heart valve choices in the adult: mechanical or bioprosthetic?
- Surgical Coronary revascularization and antiarrhythmic therapy in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
- Results of bioprosthetic versus mechanical aortic valve replacement performed with concomitant Coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Endoscopic versus open saphenous vein harvest: a comparison of postoperative wound complications.
- Case conference 3--1990. Two patients develop some signs and symptoms of malignant hyperthermia during cardiac surgery with cardioPulmonary bypass--is it the real thing.
- Mitral regurgitation.
- Guidelines for reporting mortality and morbidity after cardiac Valve interventions.
- Long-term survival after surgical revascularization for moderate ischemic Mitral regurgitation.
- Late results of combined carotid and Coronary surgery using actual versus actuarial methodology.
- Early and late results of the surgical correction of cardiac prosthetic paravalvular leaks.
- Outcome following mitral Valve replacement in patients with mitral stenosis and moderately reduced left ventricular ejection fraction.
- Long-term results and determinants of mortality after surgery for native and prosthetic Valve endocarditis.
- Risk of reoperative valve replacement for failed mitral and Aortic bioprostheses.
- Composite aortic root replacement with direct Coronary artery implantation.
- Safety and efficacy of concomitant carotid and Coronary artery operations.
- Mitral Valve reconstruction versus replacement for degenerative or ischemic mitral regurgitation.
- Reoperative Coronary grafting: changing patient profiles, operative indications, techniques, and results.
- Postinfarct ventricular septal defect repair: effect of Coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Comparison of Coronary artery bypass grafting and percutaneous transluminal Coronary angioplasty as initial treatment strategies.
- Myocardial revascularization with combined Aortic and mitral valve replacements.
- Mitral Valve replacement for isolated mitral regurgitation: analysis of clinical course and late postoperative left ventricular ejection fraction.
- Repeat Aortic root replacement.
- Cardiac operations in patients 80 years old and older.
- Accurate localization of Mitral regurgitant defects using multiplane transesophageal echocardiography.
- Octogenarians with Aortic stenosis. Outcome after Aortic valve replacement.
- Isolated Coronary artery bypass grafting in patients seventy years of age and older: early and late results.
- Blunt injuries of the thoracic aorta.
- IntraAortic balloon pumping for cardiac support: trends in practice and outcome, 1968 to 1995.
- Degree of reversibility of left ventricular systolic dysfunction after Aortic valve replacement for isolated Aortic valve stenosis.
- Simultaneous carotid and Coronary disease: safety of the combined approach.
- Diminished anticoagulant response to heparin in patients undergoing Coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Hypothermic fibrillatory arrest for Coronary artery bypass grafting.
- 1987: Early and late results following emergency isolated Myocardial revascularization during hypothermic fibrillatory arrest. Updated in 1994 by Cary W. Akins, MD.
- Aprotinin in primary Valve replacement and reconstruction: a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
- Combined carotid endarterectomy and Coronary revascularization operation.
- Late results with Carpentier-Edwards porcine bioprosthesis.
- Intraoperative aortic Dissection.
- The safety of intraAortic balloon pump catheter insertion through suprainguinal prosthetic vascular bypass grafts.
- Myocardial protection with hypothermia and potassium cardioplegia during operation for ascending aortic Aneurysms.
- Mechanical Valves: a comparative analysis of the Starr-Edwards and Björk-Shiley prostheses.
- Pregnancy and bioprostheses: influence on structural Valve deterioration.
- Electrophysiologic studies before and after myocardial revascularization in patients with life-threatening ventricular Arrhythmias.
- Review of the global experience with the Medtronic-Hall Valve.
- Mechanical cardiac valvular prostheses.
- Long-term results with the Medtronic-Hall valvular prosthesis.
- Acute traumatic disruption of the thoracic aorta: emergency department management.
- Reoperation for stenotic saphenous vein bypass grafts without cardioPulmonary bypass.
- Event-free survival following nonemergency Myocardial revascularization during hypothermic fibrillatory arrest.
- Results with mechanical cardiac valvular prostheses.
- Controversies in myocardial revascularization: Coronary artery surgery for single-vessel disease.
- Noncardioplegic myocardial preservation for Coronary revascularization.
- Early and late results following emergency isolated Myocardial revascularization during hypothermic fibrillatory arrest.
- Selection of Angina-free patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction for myocardial revascularization.
- Cephalothin prophylaxis in cardiac Valve surgery. A prospective, double-blind comparison of two-day and six-day regimens.
- Coronary reocclusion after selective administration of streptokinase.
- Hemodynamic evaluation of Hancock and Carpentier-Edwards bioprostheses.
- Acute traumatic disruption of the thoracic aorta: a ten-year experience.
- Right ventricular Failure following cardiopulmonary bypass: inadequate myocardial protection or incomplete revascularization?
- Medtronic-Hall prosthetic Aortic valve.
- Selection of cardial valvular prostheses.
- Full sternotomy through a minimally invasive incision: a cardiac surgeon's true comfort zone.
- Preoperative evaluation of subvalular fibrosis in Mitral stenosis. A predictor factor in conservative vs replacement surgical therapy.
- An international experience with the CarboMedics prosthetic Heart valve.
- Pulmonary Valve replacement. Report of an operation performed for calcific pulmonic stenosis associated with total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage and atrial septa...
- Surgical intervention for failed percutaneous transluminal Coronary angioplasty.
- Resection of left ventricular Aneurysm during hypothermic fibrillatory arrest without aortic occlusion.
- Mid-term follow-up after Heart valve replacement with CarboMedics bileaflet prostheses.
- The case for concomitant carotid and Coronary artery surgery.
- Preservation of interventricular septal function in patients having Coronary artery bypass grafts without cardiopulmonary bypass.
- Catastrophic Pulmonary vasoconstriction associated with protamine reversal of heparin.
- The influence of left ventricular volume and wall motion in Myocardial images.
- Improved results of surgical management of postInfarction ventricular septal rupture.
- Mini-CABG: a step forward or a step backward? the "con" point of view.
- Right main Coronary artery disease: antemortem diagnosis and treatment.
- Revascularization of the myocardium.
- The use of bronchoscopic sponge biopsy in the diagnosis of Pulmonary neoplasms.
- Anomalous origin of left Coronary artery from pulmonary artery. Case report and review of literature concerning teen-agers and adults.
- Coronary artery surgery: the state of the art.
- Complications of percutaneous intra-Aortic balloon insertion.
- Combined intracoronary streptokinase infusion and coronary angioplasty during Acute myocardial infarction.
- New approaches to quantifying Aortic stenosis severity.
- Coronary bypass surgery in chronic stable Angina.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Western Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Aortic Repair, Open or Repair of Arterial Aneurysm, Open
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardioverter-Defibrillator or Pacemaker Insertion, Removal or Repair
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Conditions Treated
- Aneurysm and Dissection of Heart
- Angina and Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Valve Disease
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiac Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top MD
- Fellow (FACC)
- Super Doctor
- Fellow (FACS)
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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