Junichi Shimamura

Surgeon, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Westchester Medical Center, NY

[Haris Patail MD @HarisPatail]

Recurrent TVIE due to recurrent IVDU - how do surgeons/ICs decide when and which intervention to offer?

@ShimamuraMD @SuguruOhira @GoldbergJBCTMD @YasserRadwan_ @WMCCardsFellows

https://t.co/0HzTEnMvss

[Haris Patail MD @HarisPatail]

Is severe AI an absolute contraindication for Impella use in CS? Here is our report on 2 patients with severe AI who underwent axillary 5.5 as a bridge to successful VT ablation and surgical AVR.

@ShimamuraMD @HibinoMDMPH @SuguruOhira @WMCCardsFellows

https://t.co/kySO9AchBC

[Haris Patail MD @HarisPatail]

Favorite conference so far @cvinnovations. Had the privilege to present a case of a prohibitive surgical candidate with a bioprosthetic MV mass treated with percutaneous mechanical aspiration.

@YasserRadwan_ @SwatiChand_ @WMCCardsFellows @ShimamuraMD @SrihariNaiduMD

[Westchester Medical Center Health Network @WMCHealth]

🏆 Our cardiothoracic ICU nurses at Westchester Medical Center won the Beacon Award for excellence in critical care! They're saving lives daily after heart surgeries with exceptional skill. #NursesWeek #BeaconAward

[Suguru Ohira, MD, PhD @SuguruOhira]

Highlights of #ISHLT2025
⁦@WMCHealth⁩ Heart Failure Team and kind of reunion Masashi Kai from ⁦@BIDMCSurgery⁩

⁦@ameeshisath⁩ ⁦@stephenpanmd⁩ ⁦@VasilikiGreg⁩

[AATS @AATSHQ]

New adult arrhythmia research: Incomplete ablation as a mechanism of atrial fibrillation recurrence and atrial tachycardia development after maze procedure from Nippon Medical School. Read more in #JTCVS Open: https://t.co/4JHivzg5fM

[Donal @DonalErwan]

Hot stuff💪Atrial and ventricular functional mitral regurgitation: prevalence, characteristics, outcomes, and disease progression https://t.co/BI4ScPNtBz

[Haris Patail MD @HarisPatail]

Check out our case in @JACCJournals ; An 84yo female with a large bioprosthetic MV mass removed with transcatheter, transeptal vacuum aspiration.

@WMCCardsFellows @ShimamuraMD @SuguruOhira
#AngioVac

https://t.co/VSTJ2i74E1

[Suguru Ohira, MD, PhD @SuguruOhira]

One of the options to fix biopsy-related TR post heart transplant
⁦@EACTS_Journals⁩ ⁦⁦⁦ https://t.co/WXw2oSa3NF

[Innovations Journal @Innovationsjour]

1⃣st article in our Vol 19, Issue 3 Focused Topic Series, Drs @MohsynM @MichaelMwachu from @LHSCCanada share their 10 Commandments for endoscopic minimally invasive tricuspid valve repair

Read free: https://t.co/5uHnbz02TN

[Suguru Ohira, MD, PhD @SuguruOhira]

Cardiac surgery on patients with@liver dysfunction
How to tackle these challenging population? @WMCHealth⁩ experience

⁦@KenjiOkumura_MD⁩
⁦@WMCCardsFellows⁩ ⁦@PJSpen1982⁩ ⁦@GoldbergJBCTMD⁩ ⁦@STS_CTsurgery⁩ https://t.co/j51oLKohyR

[Suguru Ohira, MD, PhD @SuguruOhira]

⁦@VasilikiGreg⁩ and ⁦@ameeshisath⁩ did a great job! published in ⁦@ArtifOrgans⁩
⁦@Transmedics⁩ ⁦@WMCCardsFellows⁩ ⁦@STS_CTsurgery⁩ ⁦@stephenpanmd⁩ ⁦@PJSpen1982⁩ https://t.co/wB5vh3AQ5s

[Suguru Ohira, MD, PhD @SuguruOhira]

Axillary access considerations in Impella 5.5 insertion
Read our article by ⁦@ShazliKhanMD⁩ ⁦@ameeshisath⁩ published in ⁦@ArtifOrgans⁩
⁦@Abiomed⁩ ⁦@ELSOOrg⁩ ⁦@HirotoKitahara⁩ @APolancoMD ⁦@WMCCardsFellows⁩ https://t.co/KxaJQK8BIC

[EACTS @EACTS]

📣 A new video has been published on MMCTS

📽️ A heart transplant and concomitant hemiarch repair in a patient with a large ascending aortic aneurysm and a challenging sternal re-entry

👇
https://t.co/EFe3onzwIz

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

Perioperative management of DOACs 📌
📸: https://t.co/M5sKPD4Q8m

[Westchester Medical Center Health Network @WMCHealth]

Suguru Ohira, MD, Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation at Westchester Medical Center, is the first in the Hudson Valley to perform a beating heart transplant! This innovative procedure keeps the heart warm and beating during transport, extending viability and donor pool.

[The Annals of Thoracic Surgery @annalsthorsurg]

#EditorsChoice Guidelines from @STS_CTsurgery and @EACTS w/evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis, surveillance, and indications for & conduct of surgery in pts w/acute & chronic disease of the aortic root, ascending, arch, & descending aorta👇

https://t.co/3yV7J3HvqI

[Joshua Goldberg @GoldbergJBCTMD]

I am happy to start a new chapter as I join the world class cardiac surgery team at Weill Cornell Medical Center as Surgical Director of Structural Heart Surgery @weillcornell @wcm_ctsurgery @wcmsurgery

[Junichi Shimamura @ShimamuraMD]

@tyechang Show me around when I’ll be in Boston next time 🙏

[Suguru Ohira, MD, PhD @SuguruOhira]

Looking forward to sharing our DBD @Transmedics experience at @STS_CTsurgery meeting 2024 at San Antonio will be presented-by @VasilikiGreg as oral presentation🫵
Thanks for the opportunity @KarenMKimMD1 @GoldbergJBCTMD @annalsthorsurg