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Aortic surgery clinics and specialist centres

6 clinics and specialist centres with linked profiles, clinical focus and attributable evidence.

Research by Yevhenii Kozlov · Co-Founder of BookimedUpdated 8 October 2026Sources linked throughout

At a glance

Aortic surgery clinics and specialist centres differ in the anatomy they treat, techniques they offer and evidence they publish. Aortic surgery treats a weakened or enlarged artery; the affected segment determines the operation. Root and ascending disease usually require a different pathway from descending disease that may suit an endovascular stent.

6 named clinics and specialist centres

Hisar Hospital Intercontinental, Medanta, Royal Brompton Hospital, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital and other named teams.

Sources: Prof. Dr. Ali Fedakar, M.D. — Hisar Hospital Intercontinental · Dr. Surinder Bazaz — Medanta Gurugram · Ulrich Rosendahl — clinical expertise and Royal Brompton location · Minimally invasive coronary artery bypass graft surgery

The native valve may be preserved

Selected aortic-root operations retain the patient’s valve rather than automatically replacing it.

Sources: ACC/AHA aortic guidance (2022)

Diameter is only one factor

Growth, symptoms, body size, bicuspid anatomy and inherited disease also influence treatment timing.

Sources: ACC/AHA aortic guidance (2022)

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Institut de Cardiologie building at Pitié-Salpêtrière, behind flowering trees
The Institut de Cardiologie at Pitié-Salpêtrière, shown on the hospital’s official cardiology page. · Photo source

France · Paris

AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière

Aortic surgery clinical focus

Pitié-Salpêtrière lists Lansac within its adult cardiac and aortic service.

    Procedures and specialists
    adult cardiac surgeryaortic surgeryaortic valve repair assessmentvalve-sparing root surgery assessment
    Emmanuel Lansac →Read the clinic profile ↗

    What this means for your choiceThe linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods.

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    Sources: Dr Emmanuel Lansac · Cardiac and thoracic surgery at Pitié-Salpêtrière · External aortic annuloplasty with a dedicated expansible ring improves outcomes in remodeling root repair compared with homemade Dacron ring.

    Entrance of Duke University Hospital
    Duke University Hospital entrance, from Duke Health’s official hospital-location image. · Photo source

    United States · Durham, North Carolina

    Duke University Hospital

    Aortic surgery clinical focus

    Duke combines cardiac and vascular aortic care with imaging, genetics and continuing surveillance.

      Procedures and specialists
      aortic valve repairvalve-sparing root replacementaortic arch and thoracoabdominal repairthoracic endovascular aortic repairheart transplantationLVADECMOtotal artificial heartselected surgery with severely reduced LV function
      G. Chad Hughes →Read the clinic profile ↗

      What this means for your choiceThe linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods.

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      Sources: Duke Center for Aortic Disease combines cardiothoracic and vascular surgery · G. Chad Hughes, MD

      Hisar Intercontinental Hospital exterior with the hospital name above its entrance.
      Hisar Hospital Intercontinental, Istanbul. · Photo source

      Turkey · Istanbul

      Hisar Hospital Intercontinental

      Aortic surgery clinical focus

      Hisar’s Fedakar profile includes aortic surgery and surgery for aortic dissection.

        Procedures and specialists
        coronary bypassbeating-heart bypassminimally invasive cardiac surgeryredo valve surgeryaortic surgery
        Ali Fedakar →Read the clinic profile ↗

        What this means for your choiceThe linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods.

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        Sources: Prof. Dr. Ali Fedakar, M.D. — Hisar Hospital Intercontinental

        Medanta hospital building and landscaped grounds in Gurugram.
        Medanta – The Medicity, Gurugram campus. · Photo source

        India · Gurugram

        Medanta

        Aortic surgery clinical focus

        Medanta’s cardiac-surgery service includes aortic disease under Naresh Trehan’s wider coronary, valve and aortic practice.

          Procedures and specialists
          CABGoff-pump and beating-heart surgeryvalve repair and replacementaortic surgeryredo surgeryminimally invasive and robotic surgery
          Naresh Trehan →Read the clinic profile ↗

          What this means for your choiceThe linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods.

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          Sources: Cardiac Surgery Experts in Gurugram — Medanta

          Surgeon in the operating room on the UHN minimally invasive cardiac surgery programme page
          Operating-room photograph published by UHN’s Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery Program. · Photo source

          Canada · Toronto

          Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital

          Aortic surgery clinical focus

          UHN’s MICS programme explicitly includes aortic surgery under Davierwala’s surgical leadership.

            Procedures and specialists
            single-vessel minimally invasive CABGmultivessel total-arterial minimally invasive CABGminimally invasive valve and aortic surgery
            Piroze M. Davierwala →Read the clinic profile ↗

            What this means for your choiceThe linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods.

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            Sources: MICS programme and Dr Piroze M. Davierwala

            Brick entrance marked Brompton Hospital South Block.
            Royal Brompton Hospital, historic South Block entrance in London. · Photo source

            United Kingdom · London

            Royal Brompton Hospital

            Aortic surgery clinical focus

            Royal Brompton’s listed expertise includes valve-sparing root replacement, arch and thoraco-abdominal reconstruction and inherited aortic disease.

              Procedures and specialists
              aortic-root and arch surgerythoracic-aortic surgeryaortic valve surgerymitral reconstructionCABGminimally invasive surgery
              Ulrich Rosendahl →Read the clinic profile ↗

              What this means for your choiceThe linked specialist profiles distinguish clinical practice, published cohorts and treatment methods.

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              Sources: Ulrich Rosendahl — clinical expertise and Royal Brompton location

              Clinical benefits and trade-offs

              Potential advantages

              Trade-offs and limits

              • Repair does not remove the need for blood-pressure treatment and surveillance of the remaining aorta. Endovascular repair is not a substitute for every root or ascending operation.

                Sources: ACC/AHA aortic guidance (2022)

              How these clinics and specialist centres were selected

              This list contains 6 clinics and specialist centres with a documented aortic surgery focus in our source-linked directory. It is an editorial shortlist, not a census or an outcome ranking.

              Institutional expertise and published study results are identified separately. An individual doctor may participate in several treatment pathways; a study of one procedure does not establish outcomes for another.

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