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Open the studies within each card for the patient groups, outcomes and follow-up behind those claims. Compare reported surgical experience Positions use published operation counts within the same procedure, reporting period and attribution. “+” is a reported minimum. Personal operations, participation and programme totals have separate lists. A dash means open-ended counts do not establish an exact place. The lists compare experience, not safety or suitability. Programme operations · 2024 · septal myectomies 2 specialists or programmes with comparable public figures in this researched shortlist. Source dates and the exact operation scope are shown beside each figure. 1 Yong Cui / Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital Right infra-axillary modified-Morrow myectomies. This technique-specific count is a minimum for the programme’s total myectomy activity; other approaches are not included. 250+ Calendar year 2024 · published 2025-01-31 · counting date 2024-12-31 Source ↗ · read 2026-10-08 2 Nicholas Smedira / Cleveland Clinic Programme total across septal approaches, including operations with associated procedures. 201 Calendar year 2024 · published 2025-08-27 · counting date 2024-12-31 Source ↗ · read 2026-10-08 Programme operations · Cumulative reported experience · septal myectomies 2 specialists or programmes with comparable public figures in this researched shortlist. Source dates and the exact operation scope are shown beside each figure. — Yong Cui / Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital HCM myectomy programme using an underarm route that preserves the breastbone. 1,000+ Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated Source ↗ · read 2026-10-08 — Daniel G. Swistel / NYU Langone NYU programme total; distinct from any one surgeon’s career experience. 600+ Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated Source ↗ · read 2026-10-08 Programme operations · 2025 · isolated mitral valve operations 2 specialists or programmes with comparable public figures in this researched shortlist. Source dates and the exact operation scope are shown beside each figure. 1 A. Marc Gillinov / Cleveland Clinic programme Isolated mitral valve repair or replacement; all approaches.  Calculated from 447 repairs + 167 replacements in the same isolated-procedure table. 614 Calendar year 2025 · published 2026-03-16 · counting date 2025-12-31 Source ↗ · read 2026-10-08 2 Go Watanabe, Norihiko Ishikawa & Ryuta Seguchi / NewHeart Isolated mitral valve operations; repair/replacement combined; all approaches. 171 Calendar year 2025 · counting date 2025-12-31 Source ↗ · read 2026-10-08 Procedure Focus your shortlist Cards follow the selected procedure’s default experience comparison above. Providers without a comparable public count retain their clinical profiles without a numbered position. Specialist expertise Valve-sparing aortic root Ali Fedakar Hisar Hospital Intercontinental cardiovascular surgeon Ali Fedakar’s Hisar practice explicitly includes second and third valve operations, coronary bypass and aortic surgery. His background is particularly relevant to patients whose new operation must account for an earlier valve or bypass procedure. Sources: Prof. Dr. Ali Fedakar, M.D. | Hisar Intercontinental Hospital Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise Valve-sparing aortic root Emmanuel Lansac AP-HP Pitié-Salpêtrière aortic valve repair and root remodelling Emmanuel Lansac is listed in Pitié-Salpêtrière’s cardiac surgery service. His technique-focused research combines root remodelling with an external ring supporting the valve annulus, aiming to retain the natural aortic valve. Sources: External aortic annuloplasty with a dedicated expansible ring improves outcomes in remodeling root repair compared with homemade Dacron ring. · Dr Emmanuel Lansac · Cardiac and thoracic surgery at Pitié-Salpêtrière Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise Valve-sparing aortic root G. Chad Hughes Duke University Hospital aortic surgery and valve-sparing repair G. Chad Hughes’s Duke practice covers aortic valve repair, valve-sparing root replacement and disease extending to the arch and thoraco-abdominal aorta. His team has also published late limitations of a specific repair device. Sources: Duke Center for Aortic Disease combines cardiothoracic and vascular surgery · G. Chad Hughes, MD · Mid-term outcomes of aortic valve repair using an anatomically shaped internal annuloplasty ring. Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise Valve-sparing aortic root Hans-Joachim Schäfers and colleagues historical Homburg programme Native-valve preservation with a large bicuspid-valve subgroup. 472 patients had bicuspid valves; 1,047 had associated cusp repair. Fifteen-year freedom from reoperation was 94% for tricuspid versus 84% for bicuspid valves. Sources: Remodeling of the aortic root—a 28-year journey 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks Native-valve preservation with a large bicuspid-valve subgroup. 1189 valve-preserving root-remodeling patients in this study 1995–2022 · published 2023 472 patients had bicuspid valves; 1,047 had associated cusp repair. Fifteen-year freedom from reoperation was 94% for tricuspid versus 84% for bicuspid valves. Results: Full-text estimate: 88% freedom from valve reoperation at 20 years; 77% freedom from regurgitation grade 2 or greater at 15 years. Follow-up: Mean 6.7 ± 5.5 years; 95% follow-up completeness. Study context: Historical Saarland/Homburg programme cohort, not a personal count. Schäfers was director until 2023 and is now Senior Consultant at Westpfalz. Technique and selection changed over time. Kaplan–Meier freedom from reoperation cannot be directly compared with Toronto’s competing-risk estimate. A valve can leak without having been reoperated on. Sources: Remodeling of the aortic root—a 28-year journey Read the programme source ↗ Specialist expertise Valve-sparing aortic root Naresh Trehan Medanta chief cardiac surgeon Naresh Trehan is Medanta’s chief cardiac surgeon. The official service listing spans CABG, valve repair and replacement, aortic disease and complex repeat operations, providing a broad surgical setting when several cardiac problems coexist. Sources: Cardiac Surgery Experts in Gurugram — Medanta · Dr. Naresh Trehan | Medanta Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise Valve-sparing aortic root Piroze M. Davierwala Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto General Hospital total-arterial minimally invasive CABG Piroze Davierwala directs the minimally invasive cardiac-surgery programme at UHN. Its coronary service includes selected multivessel total-arterial CABG through an incision between the ribs without heart–lung support. Sources: Minimally invasive coronary artery bypass graft surgery · Total Arterial Multivessel Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: 5-Year Outcomes. · MICS programme and Dr Piroze M. Davierwala Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise Valve-sparing aortic root Tirone David and colleagues Toronto programme Follow both reoperation and recurrent leakage when judging durability. At 20 years, estimated valve-reoperation probability was 6.0% with death treated as a competing risk; moderate or severe aortic insufficiency was 10.2%. Sources: A progress report on reimplantation of the aortic valve Broader practice and technique context 15,000+ All cardiac operations; procedure mix unspecified in count Personal operations · Career cumulative reported in 2015 · published 2015 All cardiac operations; procedure mix unspecified in count. Historical figure; source date shown. Changing the way cardiac surgery is practiced ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks Follow both reoperation and recurrent leakage when judging durability. 465 aortic-valve reimplantation patients in this study 1989–2018 · published 2021 At 20 years, estimated valve-reoperation probability was 6.0% with death treated as a competing risk; moderate or severe aortic insufficiency was 10.2%. Results: 95% confidence intervals: 2.8–12.9% for reoperation and 5.7–17.4% for insufficiency. Only 25 patients were alive and free from reoperation beyond 20 years. Follow-up: Mean 10 ± 6 years; 98% completeness. This is not 20-year observation of all 465 patients. Study context: Three attending surgeons contributed. UHN currently lists David and division head Maral Ouzounian; no individual case allocation or appointment availability is established. Selected expert-centre cohort. Do not turn 6% reoperation into “94% durable success”, or transfer historical programme results to an individual surgeon. Sources: A progress report on reimplantation of the aortic valve Read the programme source ↗ Specialist expertise Valve-sparing aortic root Ulrich Rosendahl Royal Brompton Hospital consultant cardiac surgeon Ulrich Rosendahl’s Royal Brompton practice includes valve-sparing aortic-root replacement and reconstruction of the wider aorta. This is relevant when an aneurysm overlaps with valve disease, a previous operation or a connective-tissue disorder. Sources: Ulrich Rosendahl — clinical expertise and Royal Brompton location · Mr Ulrich Rosendahl | Royal Brompton & Harefield hospitals Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Ali Fedakar Hisar Hospital Intercontinental cardiovascular surgeon Ali Fedakar’s Hisar practice explicitly includes second and third valve operations, coronary bypass and aortic surgery. His background is particularly relevant to patients whose new operation must account for an earlier valve or bypass procedure. Sources: Prof. Dr. Ali Fedakar, M.D. | Hisar Intercontinental Hospital Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Daniel G. Swistel NYU Langone HCM myectomy and mitral valve repair Daniel Swistel directs HCM surgery at NYU Langone. His published resect–plicate–release approach combines septal muscle removal with selected leaflet shortening and release of abnormal papillary attachments. Sources: Resect–plicate–release · 77-patient study (2015) · NYU Langone · Daniel Swistel · NYU Langone · HCM programme Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Faruk Gençoğlu Hisar Hospital Intercontinental Robotic and minimally invasive coronary bypass Faruk Gençoğlu’s official Hisar profile includes minimally invasive and beating-heart bypass, Da Vinci cardiac surgery and endoscopic valve surgery. His current Bookimed robotic-CABG programme combines surgery with inpatient monitoring and postoperative coordination. Sources: Faruk Gençoğlu — hisar faruk official · Faruk Gençoğlu — hisar robotic cabg Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Haşim Üstünsoy Anadolu Medical Center director and adult/pediatric cardiovascular surgeon Haşim Üstünsoy treats adult and paediatric cardiovascular disease at Anadolu. His clinical scope includes minimally invasive and robotic surgery; the programme also offers complex valve repair and valve-sparing aortic-root surgery. Sources: Prof. Haşim Üstünsoy | Anadolu Medical Center · Cardiovascular Surgery — Anadolu Medical Center · Robotic Surgery — Anadolu Medical Center Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Husam Balkhy UChicago Medicine programme 2,000+ totally endoscopic coronary bypass operations Programme operations Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated Totally endoscopic coronary bypass using a robot and small chest ports. The hospital attributes this count to its surgical programme. UChicago Medicine: totally endoscopic coronary bypass programme ↗ Totally endoscopic bypass: clarify whether the plan also includes stents. 56% had multivessel TECAB. The reported 97% early graft patency came from the imaged hybrid-revascularization subgroup, not all 544 patients or long-term imaging. Sources: Robotic off-pump totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in the current era: report of 544 patients · Husam H. Balkhy, MD — UChicago Medicine 2,400+ Minimally invasive robot-assisted cardiac procedures across CABG, valves, ablation and congenital defects Personal operations · Cumulative by September 2024; start unspecified · published 2024-09-19 · counting date 2024-09-19 Minimally invasive robot-assisted cardiac procedures across CABG, valves, ablation and congenital defects. Former US attorney general chooses UChicago Medicine for robotic heart surgery ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks Totally endoscopic bypass: clarify whether the plan also includes stents. 544 robotic off-pump TECAB patients in this study July 2013–August 2020 · published 2021/2022 56% had multivessel TECAB. The reported 97% early graft patency came from the imaged hybrid-revascularization subgroup, not all 544 patients or long-term imaging. Results: One conversion to sternotomy; reported mortality 0.9%. At 38-month follow-up, freedom from major cardiac events was 92.5%. Follow-up: 38 months; the abstract does not label this mean or median. Study context: Balkhy is the current official robotic surgery director and first author. The abstract does not assign every operation personally to him. Selected patients at one centre; the study’s bypass and hybrid graft/stent strategies apply to different coronary anatomies. Sources: Robotic off-pump totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in the current era: report of 544 patients · Husam H. Balkhy, MD — UChicago Medicine Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Marc Ruel Ottawa Heart Institute programme 1,000+ minimally invasive coronary bypass operations Programme operations Cumulative by April 2026; no start in numeric claim · published 2026-04-13 · counting date 2026-04-13 Minimally invasive coronary bypass operations. 50 years of heart: Innovation and teamwork transformed cardiac surgery ↗ Follow what happens years after the bypass, including new coronary disease. 49/566 patients (8.7%) had repeat revascularization; the estimated 12-year cumulative incidence was 14.8%. Progression in native vessels accounted for 23 of those 49 repeat procedures. Sources: Revascularization after minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting in 566 patients: Is it a problem? · Ruel, Marc — University of Ottawa Heart Institute About 1,000 coronary bypass operations Programme operations · Annual activity estimate published May 2025; calendar year not specified · published 2025-05-28 · counting date 2025-05-28 All CABG approaches. The churro-inspired innovation that could transform bypass surgery ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks Follow what happens years after the bypass, including new coronary disease. 566 MICS CABG patients in this study 17-year accrual period · published 2024/2025 49/566 patients (8.7%) had repeat revascularization; the estimated 12-year cumulative incidence was 14.8%. Progression in native vessels accounted for 23 of those 49 repeat procedures. Results: Clinical follow-up was 100% complete, averaging 7.0 years. Repeat intervention is not the same endpoint as graft failure. Follow-up: Mean 7.0 ± 4.4 years; exact calendar accrual dates not stated in the abstract. Study context: Ottawa programme cohort. Ruel is senior author and a current official MICS surgeon; 566 is not a personal case count. Primary abstract reviewed. Small-thoracotomy multivessel CABG; the study does not supply long-term angiographic patency for every graft. Sources: Revascularization after minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting in 566 patients: Is it a problem? · Ruel, Marc — University of Ottawa Heart Institute Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Mario F.L. Gaudino NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medicine arterial grafting for coronary bypass Mario Gaudino’s Weill Cornell practice explicitly includes radial-artery and bilateral internal mammary-artery grafting. His research addresses what a bypass graft is made from, independently of the chest incision. Sources: Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD, PhD · Association of Radial Artery Graft vs Saphenous Vein Graft With Long-term Cardiovascular Outcomes Among Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Naresh Trehan Medanta chief cardiac surgeon Naresh Trehan is Medanta’s chief cardiac surgeon. The official service listing spans CABG, valve repair and replacement, aortic disease and complex repeat operations, providing a broad surgical setting when several cardiac problems coexist. Sources: Cardiac Surgery Experts in Gurugram — Medanta · Dr. Naresh Trehan | Medanta Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Nitin Kumar Rajput Medanta Cardiac surgeon, Medanta Gurugram Nitin Kumar Rajput’s Medanta practice includes robotic-assisted CABG, beating-heart surgery and endoscopic mitral and aortic valve replacement. His scope also includes repeat bypass and repeat valve operations. Sources: Cardiac Surgery Experts in Gurugram — Medanta Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Pat Ongcharit Bumrungrad International Hospital cardiothoracic surgeon Pat Ongcharit is a Bumrungrad cardiothoracic surgeon whose listed interests include coronary and valve disease. His background combines Thai specialist certification with cardiothoracic and transplant fellowship training at Papworth Hospital. Sources: Pat Ongcharit, M.D. | Bumrungrad International Hospital Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Piroze Davierwala historical Leipzig cohort; now UHN Toronto The graft plan matters: total-arterial means no vein conduits. Selected elective patients received a mean 2.4 grafts through a minithoracotomy. Estimated five-year survival was 93.3%; freedom from major cardiac/cerebrovascular events was 83.8%. Sources: Total Arterial Multivessel Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: 5-Year Outcomes · About the MICS Program — Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, UHN 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks The graft plan matters: total-arterial means no vein conduits. 186 total-arterial multivessel CABG patients in this study 2015–2021 · Leipzig study published 2024 Selected elective patients received a mean 2.4 grafts through a minithoracotomy. Estimated five-year survival was 93.3%; freedom from major cardiac/cerebrovascular events was 83.8%. Results: One hospital death, six perioperative myocardial infarctions, 12 repeat thoracotomies and two conversions to sternotomy. Follow-up: Five-year estimates; mean or median follow-up duration not supplied in the abstract. Study context: Davierwala is senior/corresponding author and now leads a UHN Toronto programme. These are Leipzig outcomes, not Toronto outcomes or a personal case count. Primary abstract reviewed. An uncontrolled, selected series cannot establish superiority of the graft choice or incision. Sources: Total Arterial Multivessel Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: 5-Year Outcomes · About the MICS Program — Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, UHN Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Surinder Bazaz Medanta Senior Director, Cardiac Surgery, Medanta Gurugram Surinder Bazaz’s Medanta practice includes total-arterial CABG on a beating heart and coronary endarterectomy. These are specific capabilities for the graft plan and diseased coronary vessel, beyond the size of the chest incision. Sources: Dr. Surinder Bazaz — Medanta Gurugram · Cardiac Surgery Experts in Gurugram — Medanta Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Ulrich Rosendahl Royal Brompton Hospital consultant cardiac surgeon Ulrich Rosendahl’s Royal Brompton practice includes valve-sparing aortic-root replacement and reconstruction of the wider aorta. This is relevant when an aneurysm overlaps with valve disease, a previous operation or a connective-tissue disorder. Sources: Ulrich Rosendahl — clinical expertise and Royal Brompton location · Mr Ulrich Rosendahl | Royal Brompton & Harefield hospitals Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise CABG / bypass Xavier Ruyra Baliarda Centro Médico Teknon Coronary bypass and cardiac surgery Xavier Ruyra Baliarda heads cardiac surgery at Teknon Heart Institute. The official profile describes beating-heart coronary surgery and blood-conservation techniques; his advertised CABG package itemises the medical stay separately from travel. Sources: Dr Xavier Ruyra — official Teknon clinical profile · Xavier Ruyra Baliarda — teknon cabg Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise HCM / myectomy Yong Cui Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital #1 · Programme operations · 2024 · septal myectomies · among 2 with comparable public figures 250+ septal myectomies Programme operations Calendar year 2024 · published 2025-01-31 · counting date 2024-12-31 Right infra-axillary modified-Morrow myectomies. This technique-specific count is a minimum for the programme’s total myectomy activity; other approaches are not included. 心有“勇”术｜崔勇：寻道创新，微步致远 ↗ Right infra-axillary transaortic myectomy with documented subvalvular work. Papillary resection in 72/148 (48.6%); chordal resection in 93/148 (62.8%); papillary reorientation in 15/148 (10.1%). Procedures overlap. Sources: An innovative minimally invasive approach for HOCM: transaortic septal myectomy via right infra-axillary incision · Yong Cui practice profile 1,000+ septal myectomies Programme operations · Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated HCM myectomy programme using an underarm route that preserves the breastbone. MESM programme / Yong Cui ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 5,000+ Minimally invasive cardiac operations across conditions Programme operations · Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated Minimally invasive heart operations across conditions since 2018; this is broader than HCM. Yong Cui practice overview ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 2 clinical studies · methods, results and risks Right infra-axillary transaortic myectomy with documented subvalvular work. 148 patients in this study September 2021–July 2023 · published 2024 Papillary resection in 72/148 (48.6%); chordal resection in 93/148 (62.8%); papillary reorientation in 15/148 (10.1%). Procedures overlap. Results: Mean peak LVOT gradient 85.1 → 11.7 mmHg after surgery. 1/148 in-hospital death; 8/148 permanent pacemakers; no conversion to sternotomy reported. Follow-up: Numerical follow-up duration was not specified in the inspected report. Study context: Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital study, with Yong Cui as senior/corresponding author. Selected single-centre approach series without a sternotomy control group. Pacemaker risk is affected by baseline conduction abnormalities. This is the earlier modified-Morrow series, not the newer 100-patient MESM series. Sources: An innovative minimally invasive approach for HOCM: transaortic septal myectomy via right infra-axillary incision · Yong Cui practice profile Electro-septal sculpting through a 4–5 cm right infra-axillary incision. 100 patients in this study November 2023–May 2024 · print publication 2026 A distinct newer technique cohort. The practice site describes a long electrocautery instrument; the study abstract reports aortic cross-clamping. Results: Mean peak LVOT gradient 85.8 → 8.4 mmHg after surgery. 4/100 pacemakers; no in-hospital death, iatrogenic VSD or sternotomy conversion reported. Follow-up: Early postoperative outcomes; long-term duration unavailable in the abstract. Study context: Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital study, with Yong Cui as senior/corresponding author. Abstract-only review. Do not sum this cohort with other publications or the practice website’s lifetime claims. Zero observed deaths does not mean zero risk. Sources: Minimally Invasive Electro Septal Myectomy for HOCM Through a Right Infra-Axillary Incision · MESM: minimally invasive electro septal myectomy Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise HCM / myectomy Nicholas Smedira Cleveland Clinic #2 · Programme operations · 2024 · septal myectomies · among 2 with comparable public figures 201 septal myectomies Programme operations Calendar year 2024 · published 2025-08-27 · counting date 2024-12-31 Programme total across septal approaches, including operations with associated procedures. Cleveland Clinic 2024 HOCM data highlights ↗ A broad surgical series that includes mitral and subvalvular correction. 522 operations combined myectomy with mitral or subvalvular intervention. Those patients had thinner septums on average than patients without mitral intervention. Sources: Surgical management of LVOT obstruction in a specialized HOCM center · Nicholas Smedira, MD — Cleveland Clinic 2,000+ septal myectomies Personal participation · Cumulative participation; myectomy-specific start and cutoff not stated The institutional profile attributes participation in septal myectomies to Smedira; it does not allocate all cases to him as sole operator. Dr. Nicholas Smedira, MD - Cleveland, OH - Cardiac Surgery - Request Appointment ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 3,500+ septal myectomies Programme operations · 2002–2021; exact boundary dates not specified Cleveland programme experience across 2002–2021, described by Milind Desai in an official clinical discussion. It is separate from Smedira’s personal participation count. Surgical Myectomy for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks A broad surgical series that includes mitral and subvalvular correction. 1530 myectomy-containing operations in this study 2005–2015 · study published 2019 522 operations combined myectomy with mitral or subvalvular intervention. Those patients had thinner septums on average than patients without mitral intervention. Results: Operative mortality 0.38% in the full 1,559-operation LVOTO cohort. Complete-block pacemakers: 4.2% of the reported 1,334-patient denominator. Follow-up: Perioperative outcomes in the primary abstract; no comparable long-term duration extracted. Study context: Smedira is a currently listed myectomy specialist and study coauthor. The primary abstract says one surgeon, but does not name that operator. These are programme-study results. 1,530 is derived from 586 isolated + 522 with mitral/subvalvular work + 422 with other procedures. Another 29 operations were mitral-only. This is not current annual volume. Sources: Surgical management of LVOT obstruction in a specialized HOCM center · Nicholas Smedira, MD — Cleveland Clinic Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise HCM / myectomy Daniel G. Swistel NYU Langone 700+ septal myectomies Personal operations Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated Personal experience with septal myectomy; associated mitral leaflet and papillary-muscle anatomy may also be treated. NYU Langone: Daniel Swistel surgical experience ↗ HCM myectomy and mitral valve repair Daniel Swistel directs HCM surgery at NYU Langone. His published resect–plicate–release approach combines septal muscle removal with selected leaflet shortening and release of abnormal papillary attachments. Sources: Resect–plicate–release · 77-patient study (2015) · NYU Langone · Daniel Swistel · NYU Langone · HCM programme 600+ septal myectomies Programme operations · Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated NYU programme total; distinct from any one surgeon’s career experience. NYU HCM programme ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise HCM / myectomy Hassan Rastegar historical Tufts series 1,000+ septal myectomies Personal operations Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated · published 2023-02-20 Career experience reported by BIDMC in 2023; the linked Tufts study describes an earlier programme. BIDMC: Rastegar lifetime surgical experience ↗ Explicitly attributed individual-operator experience with longer-term follow-up. All 507 myectomies are attributed to Rastegar. The analysis excludes 25 patients with severe aortic stenosis. Sources: Results of surgical septal myectomy for obstructive HCM: the Tufts experience 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks Explicitly attributed individual-operator experience with longer-term follow-up. 482 patients analysed; 507 operated in this study 2003–2016 · study published 2017 All 507 myectomies are attributed to Rastegar. The analysis excludes 25 patients with severe aortic stenosis. Results: 4/482 operative deaths; 43/482 complete-heart-block pacemakers. The paper’s lower adjusted pacemaker percentage is not the all-patient rate. Follow-up: Mean clinical follow-up 3.2 years. Estimated survival: 94% at 5 years and 91% at 10 years; not every patient was followed for 10 years. Study context: Individual operator named in the primary study. Historical benchmark; current appointment and availability were not established in this review. Different selection and follow-up denominators apply. Older outcomes are useful for understanding durability, not a present-day booking recommendation. Sources: Results of surgical septal myectomy for obstructive HCM: the Tufts experience Read the programme source ↗ Specialist expertise HCM / myectomy Joseph A. Dearani Mayo Clinic Rochester Nearly 5,000 septal myectomies Programme operations Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated Nearly 5,000 programme myectomies since the programme began in 1961. The approximate total is shown without assigning a numbered place. Mayo 2025 Cardiovascular Surgery Annual Report ↗ HCM and congenital heart surgery Joseph Dearani’s Mayo practice spans HCM, Ebstein anomaly, congenital surgery and complex reoperations. Mayo’s selected apical-myectomy research addresses a different problem from routine basal septal obstruction. Sources: Mayo Clinic · HCM treatment options · Mayo · 67 patients with apical aneurysm repair · Mayo Clinic · Joseph Dearani 203 septal myectomies Programme operations · 2024-06–2025-06 Mayo Rochester adult and paediatric programme; the report uses June 2024–June 2025, not a calendar year. Mayo 2025 Cardiovascular Surgery Annual Report ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 About 500 Apical myectomies Programme operations · Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated Apical myectomies are part of the broader Mayo programme total, not an additional count. Mayo 2025 Cardiovascular Surgery Annual Report ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise HCM / myectomy Joshua A. Scheinerman NYU Langone Robotic HCM myectomy Joshua Scheinerman is associate surgical director of NYU’s HCM programme. The hospital identifies him as a lead operator in its first reported robotic trans-mitral myectomy, performed through right-chest ports. Sources: Current Joshua A. Scheinerman institutional profile · NYU HCM programme · NYU first robotic myectomy clinical case Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise HCM / myectomy Paolo Ferrazzi and colleagues Policlinico di Monza 400+ septal myectomies Personal operations Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated · source edition 2022-06-29 Personal myectomy experience in a June 2022 hospital brochure; includes expertise in mitral secondary-chordal work. Policlinico di Monza HCM brochure ↗ Myectomy plus cutting selected secondary mitral chordae Addresses thickened or retracted secondary chordae alongside septal muscle. Sources: Ferrazzi et al. · JACC 2026 · 350 patients 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks Myectomy plus cutting selected secondary mitral chordae 350 consecutive patients in the reported centre cohort in this study Published June 2026 · operations over a five-year period Addresses thickened or retracted secondary chordae alongside septal muscle. Results: Follow-up available for 344 patients; latest NYHA classes I / II / III: 271 / 65 / 8. Reported six-year overall survival was 96%, including two in-hospital deaths. Follow-up: Median 5.6 years (interquartile range 4.2–6.3). Study context: Single-centre team cohort; Ferrazzi is first author. It is not his personal lifetime count. Observational series. Population-matched survival is not a comparison with other surgeons or methods. Primary abstract reviewed. Sources: Ferrazzi et al. · JACC 2026 · 350 patients Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise HCM / myectomy Xiang Wei research team Tongji Hospital Transapical beating-heart myectomy: a different access route and instrument strategy. The post-learning-curve series uses a transapical approach. It is distinct from Cui’s right infra-axillary, transaortic MESM. Sources: TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period · Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction Broader practice and technique context 1,000+ TA-BSM for HCM Multiple centres · Cumulative; counting cutoff not stated · published 2024-12-23 · counting date 2024-12-23 Adoption across 15 hospitals; this count describes the technique’s network, not Xiang Wei’s personal or Tongji-only volume. HUST academic advances: Xiang Wei TA-BSM programme ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks Transapical beating-heart myectomy: a different access route and instrument strategy. 418 patients in this study January 2023–January 2024 · published 2025 The post-learning-curve series uses a transapical approach. It is distinct from Cui’s right infra-axillary, transaortic MESM. Results: 91.1% met the defined 3–6-month composite: resting/provoked LVOT gradient below 30/50 mmHg and MR no worse than 2+. 1/418 died within 30 days; 10/418 needed pacemakers. Follow-up: Median 310 days (IQR 207–408). Study context: Team cohort with Xiang Wei as senior/corresponding author; the abstract does not establish that he operated on every patient. Primary abstract reviewed; detailed exclusions require full text. Also reported: 3 apical tears, 3 mitral injuries and 2 transient ischemic strokes. The 91.1% definition is not a general “success rate”. Sources: TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period · Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise Mitral repair A. Marc Gillinov Cleveland Clinic programme #1 · Programme operations · 2025 · isolated mitral valve operations · among 2 with comparable public figures 614 isolated mitral valve operations Programme operations Calendar year 2025 · published 2026-03-16 · counting date 2025-12-31 Isolated mitral valve repair or replacement; all approaches.  Calculated from 447 repairs + 167 replacements in the same isolated-procedure table. Cleveland Clinic 2025 adult cardiac surgery volumes and outcomes ↗ A learning-curve comparison inside one robotic programme. Reported stroke fell from 2.0% in the first 500 cases to 0.8% in the second 500. This is an unadjusted time comparison, not proof that volume alone caused the change. Sources: Early results of robotically assisted mitral valve surgery: Analysis of the first 1000 cases 447 isolated mitral repairs Programme operations · Calendar year 2025 · published 2026-03-16 · counting date 2025-12-31 Isolated mitral valve repair; all approaches. Cleveland Clinic 2025 adult cardiac surgery volumes and outcomes ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 167 isolated mitral replacements Programme operations · Calendar year 2025 · published 2026-03-16 · counting date 2025-12-31 Isolated mitral valve replacement; all approaches. Cleveland Clinic 2025 adult cardiac surgery volumes and outcomes ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 2,600+ robotic mitral operations Programme operations · Cumulative at podcast date; start not assigned · published 2025-02-25 · counting date 2025-02-25 Robotically assisted mitral valve procedures. Advances in Heart Surgery at Cleveland Clinic — Part I ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks A learning-curve comparison inside one robotic programme. 1000 robotic mitral operations in this study 2006–2013 · published 2017/2018 Reported stroke fell from 2.0% in the first 500 cases to 0.8% in the second 500. This is an unadjusted time comparison, not proof that volume alone caused the change. Results: 992/997 attempted repairs completed; 915/935 with predischarge echo had no or mild MR. Hospital mortality 1/1,000; stroke 14/1,000. Follow-up: Hospital and early results, not a long-term durability study. Study context: Institutional series; Gillinov is first author, without per-surgeon case allocation. The current official programme also names Per Wierup. The cohort comprised patients screened for robotic surgery. Historical programme results do not establish a current individual surgeon’s outcomes. Sources: Early results of robotically assisted mitral valve surgery: Analysis of the first 1000 cases Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise Mitral repair Go Watanabe, Norihiko Ishikawa & Ryuta Seguchi NewHeart #2 · Programme operations · 2025 · isolated mitral valve operations · among 2 with comparable public figures 171 isolated mitral valve operations Programme operations Calendar year 2025 · counting date 2025-12-31 Isolated mitral valve operations; repair/replacement combined; all approaches. NewHeart Watanabe Institute surgical activity and outcomes ↗ A cohort focused on complex multisegment Barlow valves. 124/124 initial repairs completed, with no conversion to sternotomy or valve replacement reported. These were selected Barlow cases within a larger robotic programme. Sources: Outcomes of Barlow mitral valve repaired by robot-assisted keyhole surgery 292 mitral valve operations Programme operations · Calendar year 2025 · counting date 2025-12-31 Mitral valve operations including combined procedures; all approaches. NewHeart Watanabe Institute surgical activity and outcomes ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 1,386 robotic mitral repairs (MVP category) Programme operations · 2005-12 – 2026-09 Robotic mitral repair category; named combined categories reported separately. NewHeart Watanabe Institute surgical activity and outcomes ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 542 combined robotic mitral and tricuspid repairs Programme operations · 2005-12 – 2026-09 Robotic combined mitral repair and tricuspid repair. NewHeart Watanabe Institute surgical activity and outcomes ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 2,542 All robotic cardiac operations across conditions Programme operations · 2005-12 – 2026-09 All robotic cardiac operations across conditions. NewHeart Watanabe Institute English programme page ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks A cohort focused on complex multisegment Barlow valves. 124 Barlow disease patients in this study 2015–2022 · published 2023 124/124 initial repairs completed, with no conversion to sternotomy or valve replacement reported. These were selected Barlow cases within a larger robotic programme. Results: Freedom from reoperation/additional intervention 99.2% over reported follow-up; postoperative stroke 1/124. This is not a 10-year recurrent-leakage endpoint. Follow-up: Reported as 36 ± 21 months; the paper calls this “median” despite that notation. Six-month echo available in 116/124. Study context: Programme team series; no per-surgeon case allocation. The official institute lists Watanabe, Ishikawa and Seguchi. Early one-week MR counts conflict between abstract and body, so they are omitted here. Zero reported conversions does not mean zero risk. Sources: Outcomes of Barlow mitral valve repaired by robot-assisted keyhole surgery Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise Mitral repair Alfredo Trento Cedars-Sinai team 1,000+ robotic mitral repairs Programme operations Cumulative as of February 2020; start not specified · published 2020-02-14 · counting date 2020-02-14 Provider-described successful robotic mitral repairs. Historical figure; source date shown. Matters of the Heart: Joanna Chikwe, MD ↗ Durability separated by which leaflet is diseased. Ten-year freedom from more-than-2+ MR or reintervention: 92.4% for posterior prolapse versus 84.3% for anterior/bileaflet prolapse (competing-risk estimates). Sources: Durable Robotic Mitral Repair of Degenerative Primary Regurgitation With Long-Term Follow-Up 10,000+ All cardiac surgeries across conditions Personal operations · 1988 – 2020-02-13 · published 2020-02-13 All cardiac surgeries across conditions. Historical figure; source date shown. Matters of the Heart: Alfredo Trento, MD ↗ · source read 2026-10-08 1 clinical study · methods, results and risks Durability separated by which leaflet is diseased. 850 degenerative robotic mitral cases in this study 2005–2020 · published 2021/2022 Ten-year freedom from more-than-2+ MR or reintervention: 92.4% for posterior prolapse versus 84.3% for anterior/bileaflet prolapse (competing-risk estimates). Results: Baseline groups: 582 posterior and 268 anterior/bileaflet. 95% confidence intervals: 85.5–96.7% and 73.9–92.2%, respectively. Follow-up: Median clinical follow-up 5.5 years; median echo follow-up 1.7 years. Not every patient was observed for 10 years. Study context: Trento performed 788/850 (92.7%) operations; three other surgeons performed 62. Outcomes are pooled, not Trento-only. Selected degenerative robotic cohort excluding calcification, failed transcatheter repair and endocarditis. Historical operator attribution does not establish present booking availability. Sources: Durable Robotic Mitral Repair of Degenerative Primary Regurgitation With Long-Term Follow-Up Read the programme source ↗ Specialist expertise Mitral repair Husam H. Balkhy UChicago Medicine robotic coronary bypass surgery Husam Balkhy leads robotic cardiac surgery at UChicago Medicine. His named CABG technique is totally endoscopic beating-heart bypass, including selected multivessel and hybrid procedures. Sources: Husam H. Balkhy, MD · Robotic off-pump totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in the current era: report of 544 patients. Read the specialist profile → Specialist expertise Mitral repair Joanna Chikwe Cedars-Sinai robotic mitral repair and Barlow disease Joanna Chikwe chairs cardiac surgery at Cedars-Sinai’s Smidt Heart Institute. Her coauthored studies distinguish routine degenerative prolapse from complex Barlow disease and follow recurrent leakage as well as repair completion. 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Scheinerman institutional profile","url":"https://nyulangone.org/doctors/1215317326/joshua-a-scheinerman"},{"label":"NYU HCM programme","url":"https://nyulangone.org/care-services/hypertrophic-cardiomyopathy-program"},{"label":"NYU first robotic myectomy clinical case","url":"https://physicianfocus.nyulangone.org/nyu-langones-first-robotic-septal-myectomy-for-obstructive-hcm/"},{"label":"Read the specialist profile →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/doctor-joshua-scheinerman/"},{"label":"Policlinico di Monza HCM brochure ↗","url":"https://www.policlinicodimonza.it/wp-content/uploads/Brochure-Cardiomiopatia_29giugno-2022.pdf"},{"label":"Ferrazzi et al. · JACC 2026 · 350 patients","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42307496/"},{"label":"Ferrazzi et al. · JACC 2026 · 350 patients","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42307496/"},{"label":"Read the specialist profile →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/doctor-paolo-ferrazzi/"},{"label":"TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period","url":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.124.015044"},{"label":"Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11130719/"},{"label":"HUST academic advances: Xiang Wei TA-BSM programme ↗","url":"https://news.hust.edu.cn/info/1002/54288.htm"},{"label":"TA-BSM for obstructive HCM: Lessons Learned After the Learning Curve Period","url":"https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.124.015044"},{"label":"Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy for HCM patients with midventricular obstruction","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11130719/"},{"label":"Read the specialist profile →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/doctor-xiang-wei/"},{"label":"Cleveland Clinic 2025 adult cardiac surgery volumes and outcomes ↗","url":"https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/vital-statistics-in-adult-cardiac-surgery-including-valve-and-aorta-operations"},{"label":"Early results of robotically assisted mitral valve surgery: Analysis of the first 1000 cases","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28893396/"},{"label":"Cleveland Clinic 2025 adult cardiac surgery volumes and outcomes ↗","url":"https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/vital-statistics-in-adult-cardiac-surgery-including-valve-and-aorta-operations"},{"label":"Cleveland Clinic 2025 adult cardiac surgery volumes and outcomes ↗","url":"https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/vital-statistics-in-adult-cardiac-surgery-including-valve-and-aorta-operations"},{"label":"Advances in Heart Surgery at Cleveland Clinic — Part I ↗","url":"https://my.clevelandclinic.org/podcasts/love-your-heart/advances-in-heart-surgery-at-cleveland-clinic-part-i"},{"label":"Early results of robotically assisted mitral valve surgery: Analysis of the first 1000 cases","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28893396/"},{"label":"Read the specialist profile →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/doctor-marc-gillinov/"},{"label":"NewHeart Watanabe Institute surgical activity and outcomes ↗","url":"https://newheart.jp/introduction/achievement.php"},{"label":"Outcomes of Barlow mitral valve repaired by robot-assisted keyhole surgery","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10750981/"},{"label":"NewHeart Watanabe Institute surgical activity and outcomes ↗","url":"https://newheart.jp/introduction/achievement.php"},{"label":"NewHeart Watanabe Institute surgical activity and outcomes ↗","url":"https://newheart.jp/introduction/achievement.php"},{"label":"NewHeart Watanabe Institute surgical activity and outcomes ↗","url":"https://newheart.jp/introduction/achievement.php"},{"label":"NewHeart Watanabe Institute English programme page ↗","url":"https://newheartwatanabe.com/en/"},{"label":"Outcomes of Barlow mitral valve repaired by robot-assisted keyhole surgery","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10750981/"},{"label":"Read the specialist profile →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/doctor-go-watanabe/"},{"label":"Matters of the Heart: Joanna Chikwe, MD ↗","url":"https://www.cedars-sinai.org/stories-and-insights/innovation-and-research/matters-of-the-heart-joanna-chikwe-md"},{"label":"Durable Robotic Mitral Repair of Degenerative Primary Regurgitation With Long-Term Follow-Up","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11307173/"},{"label":"Matters of the Heart: Alfredo Trento, MD ↗","url":"https://www.cedars-sinai.org/stories-and-insights/innovation-and-research/matters-of-the-heart-alfredo-trento-md"},{"label":"Durable Robotic Mitral Repair of Degenerative Primary Regurgitation With Long-Term Follow-Up","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11307173/"},{"label":"Read the programme source ↗","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11307173/"},{"label":"Husam H. Balkhy, MD","url":"https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/find-a-physician/physician/husam-h-balkhy"},{"label":"Robotic off-pump totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass in the current era: report of 544 patients.","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34392341/"},{"label":"Read the specialist profile →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/doctor-husam-balkhy/"},{"label":"Eliminating the learning curve in robotic mitral valve repair: Results from 1400 patients.","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41177574/"},{"label":"Robotic repair for Barlow mitral regurgitation: Repairability, safety, and durability.","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35803829/"},{"label":"Joanna Chikwe, MD","url":"https://pulse.cedars-sinai.org/participant/joanna-chikwe-md"},{"label":"Joanna Chikwe clinical profile","url":"https://www.cedars-sinai.org/provider/joanna-chikwe-2111380.html"},{"label":"Read the specialist profile →","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/doctor-joanna-chikwe/"}]},{"id":"benefit-balance","title":"Benefits and trade-offs","text":"Benefits and trade-offs Potential advantages Primary studies reveal method-specific experience and anatomical detail that biography-based rankings often omit. Trade-offs and limits Different referral populations, study dates and follow-up prevent raw percentages from establishing the safest surgeon for a new patient. Sources: STS public reporting · STS rating methodology","links":[{"label":"STS public reporting","url":"https://publicreporting.sts.org/search/acsd"},{"label":"STS rating methodology","url":"https://publicreporting.sts.org/acsd-exp"}]},{"id":"techniques","title":"Innovative heart surgery: compare what the technique changes","text":"Innovative heart surgery: compare what the technique changes Start with the operation and the problem you need solved. The selections below identify a distinctive technique or useful body of follow-up; they are not claims that the newest method or largest cohort is the safest choice. Open a study card to see who was credited, which patients were included, how long they were followed and what the result actually measures. Current suitability and programme availability need a clinical review. HCM: compare newer access techniques Which anatomical problem does the technique address? Separate infra-axillary transaortic work, the newer MESM series and transapical beating-heart myectomy. They are different techniques and cohorts, with different follow-up. Yong Cui team / Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital ↗ Yong Cui team / newer MESM series ↗ Xiang Wei research team / Tongji Hospital ↗ Mitral repair: complex anatomy and durability Has this programme reported repairs like mine? A selected Barlow-valve cohort answers a different question from a larger repair programme. Compare lesion, actual operator attribution and recurrent leakage as well as reoperation. Go Watanabe, Norihiko Ishikawa & Ryuta Seguchi / NewHeart ↗ Alfredo Trento / Cedars-Sinai team ↗ CABG: look beyond the incision What is the graft plan, and what happened years later? Totally endoscopic, total-arterial and small-thoracotomy programmes describe different strategies. Identify any planned stents, then compare follow-up and repeat intervention. Husam Balkhy / UChicago Medicine programme ↗ Piroze Davierwala / historical Leipzig cohort; now UHN Toronto ↗ Marc Ruel / Ottawa Heart Institute programme ↗ Aortic root: preserving your own valve Which durability measure matters for my valve? Repair, reimplantation and remodelling series use different populations and outcome methods. Recurrent leakage and reoperation are separate outcomes. Hans-Joachim Schäfers and colleagues / historical Homburg programme ↗ Tirone David and colleagues / Toronto programme ↗","links":[{"label":"Yong Cui team / Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/septal-myectomy-surgeon-comparison/#rank-cui-hcm"},{"label":"Yong Cui team / newer MESM series ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/septal-myectomy-surgeon-comparison/#rank-cui-mesm"},{"label":"Xiang Wei research team / Tongji Hospital ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/septal-myectomy-surgeon-comparison/#rank-tongji-hcm"},{"label":"Go Watanabe, Norihiko Ishikawa & Ryuta Seguchi / NewHeart ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/mitral-valve-repair-surgeon-comparison/#rank-newheart-mitral"},{"label":"Alfredo Trento / Cedars-Sinai team ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/mitral-valve-repair-surgeon-comparison/#rank-cedars-mitral"},{"label":"Husam Balkhy / UChicago Medicine programme ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/coronary-bypass-surgeon-comparison/#rank-balkhy-cabg"},{"label":"Piroze Davierwala / historical Leipzig cohort; now UHN Toronto ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/coronary-bypass-surgeon-comparison/#rank-davierwala-cabg"},{"label":"Marc Ruel / Ottawa Heart Institute programme ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/coronary-bypass-surgeon-comparison/#rank-ottawa-cabg"},{"label":"Hans-Joachim Schäfers and colleagues / historical Homburg programme ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/aortic-surgery-surgeon-comparison/#rank-homburg-root"},{"label":"Tirone David and colleagues / Toronto programme ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/aortic-surgery-surgeon-comparison/#rank-toronto-root"}]},{"id":"anatomy-insight","title":"A smaller septum can still require a more complex operation","text":"A smaller septum can still require a more complex operation In Cleveland’s historical LVOTO series, 522 operations included myectomy plus mitral or subvalvular intervention. Mean septal thickness in that group was 18 mm, compared with 22 mm without mitral intervention. The thinner septum did not imply a simpler anatomical problem. The Zhejiang series separately reports papillary and chordal procedures. These details show why the structures contributing to obstruction matter alongside muscle thickness. Sources: Surgical management of LVOT obstruction in a specialized HOCM center · An innovative minimally invasive approach for HOCM: transaortic septal myectomy via right infra-axillary incision Latent obstruction & SAM ↗","links":[{"label":"Surgical management of LVOT obstruction in a specialized HOCM center","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.11.148"},{"label":"An innovative minimally invasive approach for HOCM: transaortic septal myectomy via right infra-axillary incision","url":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11632347/"},{"label":"Latent obstruction & SAM ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/latent-obstructive-hcm/"}]},{"id":"maturity","title":"New technique or mature follow-up: what are you choosing?","text":"New technique or mature follow-up: what are you choosing? Evidence you value Where this edition helps What remains separate Anatomy beyond the septum Cleveland and Zhejiang report associated mitral/subvalvular work Your imaging must establish which structure needs treatment Avoiding sternotomy Zhejiang axillary/transaortic and Tongji transapical approaches They differ in route, instruments, selection and follow-up Longer-term HCM observations Historical Tufts cohort reports mean clinical follow-up and survival estimates Present-day operator availability and individual risk Mitral repair durability by lesion Mitral comparisons distinguish posterior from anterior/bileaflet and Barlow anatomy A high selected-case repair rate is not your personal probability Mitral repair ↗ HCM & myectomy ↗","links":[{"label":"Mitral repair ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/mitral-valve-repair/"},{"label":"HCM & myectomy ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/hcm-myectomy/"}],"tables":[[["Evidence you value","Where this edition helps","What remains separate"],["Anatomy beyond the septum","Cleveland and Zhejiang report associated mitral/subvalvular work","Your imaging must establish which structure needs treatment"],["Avoiding sternotomy","Zhejiang axillary/transaortic and Tongji transapical approaches","They differ in route, instruments, selection and follow-up"],["Longer-term HCM observations","Historical Tufts cohort reports mean clinical follow-up and survival estimates","Present-day operator availability and individual risk"],["Mitral repair durability by lesion","Mitral comparisons distinguish posterior from anterior/bileaflet and Barlow anatomy","A high selected-case repair rate is not your personal probability"]]]},{"id":"method","title":"How this comparison is built","text":"How this comparison is built Positions are recalculated from sourced facts. We separate isolated from combined procedures, individual operators from programme totals, and calendar-year activity from cumulative experience. Open-ended counts such as 1,000+ can leave the exact relative position unresolved. Dated counts older than three years remain historical context; sources need rereading after 180 days to retain ranking eligibility. We selected primary cohorts that expose a useful difference in technique, anatomy, operator attribution or follow-up. The selection is purposeful, not a systematic review of every surgeon. Studies can be old, overlap or include different patient risks; their raw mortality and pacemaker rates therefore are not ranked against each other. A named current surgeon may be linked to a programme without inheriting all programme outcomes. A coauthor is not automatically the operator. Where only the abstract was available, the card says so. Missing public data is not evidence of poor surgical performance. No paid placement determines the order shown here. Bookimed receives funding from participating hospitals for coordination; some reference programmes have no available Bookimed booking route. A historical cohort is labelled as such. Sources: STS public reporting · STS rating methodology · Bookimed Help Center","links":[{"label":"STS public reporting","url":"https://publicreporting.sts.org/search/acsd"},{"label":"STS rating methodology","url":"https://publicreporting.sts.org/acsd-exp"},{"label":"Bookimed Help Center","url":"https://us-uk.bookimed.com/page/bookimed-help-center/"}]},{"id":"next","title":"What the comparison reveals","text":"What the comparison reveals Different filters answer different decisions: access routes that preserve the breastbone, methods addressing complex anatomy, and evidence with longer follow-up. No single one of these establishes the best operator for every patient. Specialists ↗ Compare clinics ↗ Treatment programmes ↗","links":[{"label":"Specialists ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/surgeons/"},{"label":"Compare clinics ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/clinics/"},{"label":"Treatment programmes ↗","url":"https://hub.bookimed.com/heart-surgery/treatment-programmes/"}]}],"introduction":"Heart surgery guide / Compare surgeon expertise Compare surgeon expertise · Decision guide Heart surgeon rankings by reported experience, method and results Explore distinctive techniques, complex-case experience and long-term results—then build a shortlist for your own operation. Research by Yevhenii Kozlov · Co-Founder of Bookimed Updated 8 October 2026 Sources linked throughout At a glance Compare reported surgical experience within the same procedure and attribution. Annual activity, personal operations and programme totals have separate lists. Exact positions appear only where the figures establish the order; techniques and study results remain visible for every specialist. One team, one comparison card Reported practice experience and distinctive expertise lead each card. Individual publications support the comparison underneath. HCM can involve more than the septum In Cleveland’s historical LVOTO series, 522 operations included myectomy with mitral or subvalvular work. 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