Associate Professor of Surgery, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Chief of Pediatric Heart Transplantation, Director, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Thoracic Surgery
Dr. Luca Vricella, MD
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Luca Vricella, MD is an expert in the field of Thoracic Surgery. He over the years received 2 awards: "Regional Top Doctor" and "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Doctor Luca Vricella, MD is also published. He has 68 publications published. The lastest publication: "Heart transplantation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome: modified technique for reducing circulatory arrest time.'
Publications
- Modified Model for End-Stage Liver Disease eXcluding INR (MELD-XI) Score Predicts Early Death After Pediatric Heart Transplantation.
- Effect of Preoperative Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor and Angiotensin II Receptor Blocker Use on Hemodynamic Variables in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardio...
- Pulmonary vascular resistance index and mortality after paediatric Heart transplant.
- Outcomes of Heart Transplantation in Small Children Bridged With Ventricular Assist Devices.
- Glial fibrillary acidic protein in children with congenital heart Disease undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass.
- Tetralogy of fallot and Aortic root dilation: a long-term outlook.
- Modified Nuss Procedure in Concurrent Repair of Pectus Excavatum and Open Heart Surgery.
- "All is not lost": management of intra-operative coronary injury during the Arterial switch operation.
- Mutations in Alström protein impair terminal differentiation of cardiomyocytes.
- Valve-sparing Aortic root replacement in Loeys-Dietz syndrome.
- Impact of the viral respiratory season on postoperative outcomes in children undergoing cardiac surgery.
- Valve-sparing Aortic root replacement in children: intermediate-term results.
- Monitoring cerebral blood flow pressure autoregulation in pediatric patients during cardiac surgery.
- Outcomes analysis of necrotizing enterocolitis within 11 958 neonates undergoing cardiac surgical procedures.
- Heart transplantation for adults with congenital heart Disease: analysis of the United network for organ sharing database.
- Glenn shunt facilitated weaning of right ventricular mechanical support.
- Left anterior descending coronary Aneurysm.
- Aortic root replacement in 372 Marfan patients: evolution of operative repair over 30 years.
- Patients with truncus arteriosus do not have a Patent arterial duct: true or false?
- ABO-incompatible Heart transplantation in infants: analysis of the united network for organ sharing database.
- A dynamic association between cavopulmonary shunt pressure and cerebrovascular autoregulation in an infant with congenital heart Disease and intracranial hemorrhage.
- Anomalous Aortic origin of a coronary artery with an interarterial course: should family screening be routine?
- Aortic root operations for Marfan syndrome: a comparison of the Bentall and valve-sparing procedures.
- Thoracic Aortic aneurysm syndrome in children.
- A tale of two brothers: anomalous coronary arteries in two siblings.
- Cerebral oximetry guides treatment during Blalock-Taussig shunt procedure.
- Two thousand Blalock-Taussig shunts: a six-decade experience.
- Migration of an embolized Patent foramen ovale closure device to the left ventricular outflow tract.
- Innominate artery Aneurysm.
- Modification of an extracorporeal life support circuit for intraoperative correction of complex congenital heart Disease.
- What is the proper place of the Ross procedure in our modern armamentarium?
- Subclavian flap aortoplasty: still a safe, reproducible, and effective treatment for infant Coarctation.
- Facile conversion from mechanical to bioprosthetic composite Aortic root replacement.
- Early surgical experience with Loeys-Dietz: a new syndrome of aggressive thoracic Aortic aneurysm disease.
- Aortic root aneurysm due to donor cystic medial degeneration after heart-lung transplantation.
- Valve-sparing Aortic root replacement: early experience with the De Paulis Valsalva graft in 51 patients.
- Infantile restrictive cardiomyopathy resulting from a mutation in the cardiac troponin T gene.
- Haemophilus influenzae serotype f purulent pericarditis: a cause of death in a child with Down syndrome.
- Magnetic resonance imaging of a distorted left subclavian artery course: an important clue to an unusual type of double Aortic arch.
- Abdominal compartment syndrome contributing to failure of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in an infant with congenital heart Disease and sepsis.
- Limited role of Aortic size in the genesis of acute type A Aortic dissection.
- Early experience with valve-sparing Aortic root replacement in children.
- Valve-sparing Aortic root replacement in Marfan syndrome.
- Problems with the right ventricular outflow tract: a review of morphologic features and current therapeutic options.
- Use of a saphenous venous homograft for constructing a conduit from the right ventricle to the Pulmonary arteries in the Norwood procedure.
- Simplified antegrade cerebral perfusion and Myocardial protection during stage I Norwood procedure.
- Regression of severe Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations after Fontan revision and "hepatic factor" rerouting.
- Fate of polytetrafluoroethylene monocusp pulmonary Valves in an animal model.
- Right ventricular inflow obstruction from massive fungal vegetation presenting as neonatal circulatory collapse.
- Simplified technique for correction of anomalous origin of left coronary artery from the anterior Aortic sinus.
- CavoAtrial tumor thrombus excision without circulatory arrest.
- Initial experience with a stentless porcine bioprosthesis for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction in children.
- Reoperative Aortic valve replacement with patent internal thoracic artery and venous grafts.
- Adult presentation of complete atrioventricular Septal defect.
- Lung and Heart-lung transplantation in patients with end-stage cystic fibrosis: the Stanford experience.
- Aortic arch reconstruction in neonates without hypothermic circulatory arrest.
- Single lung ventilation in children using a new paediatric bronchial blocker.
- Heimlich Valve in the management of pneumothorax in patients with advanced AIDS.
- Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction using a Goretex membrane monocusp Valve in infant animals.
- Successful Myocardial volume reduction in a 9-month-old infant.
- Ultra fast track in elective Congenital cardiac surgery.
- Intestinal obstruction from midgut volvulus after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A report of an unusual complication.
- Heart transplantation for hypoplastic left Heart syndrome: modified technique for reducing circulatory arrest time.
- Heart transplantation in infants and children with situs inversus.
- As originally published in 1988: Reexpansion Pulmonary edema. Updated in 1997.
- Management of AIDS-related pneumothorax.
- Aggressive peritoneal dialysis for treatment of acute kidney failure after neonatal Heart transplantation.
Schools
University Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore
George Washington University
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children
Stanford University
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Aortic Repair, Open or Repair of Arterial Aneurysm, Open
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) of Heart or Chest
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Conditions Treated
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Dissection
- Aortic Embolism and Thrombosis
- Aortic Valve Disease
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiac Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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Stanford University -
George Washington University -
Allegheny General Hospital - Western Pennsylvania Hospital -
University of Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Hospital
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
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