{"id":3718,"date":"2011-02-02T23:16:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T04:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2025-06-05T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T22:11:18","slug":"minimally-invasive-aortic-valve-surgery-ascending-aorta-richard-shemin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2011\/02\/02\/minimally-invasive-aortic-valve-surgery-ascending-aorta-richard-shemin\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Can Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery Occur With An Aneurysm Of The Ascending Aorta?&#8221; By Dr. Richard J. Shemin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very excited to introduce the first of several &#8220;Surgeon Video Blogs&#8221; that were filmed at the 47th annual <em>Society of Thoracic Surgeons<\/em> meeting earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Richard-Shemin-Los+Angeles+-California.php\">Dr. Richard J. Shemin<\/a>, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at UCLA Medical Center, responds to Barbara&#8217;s question, &#8220;Can minimally invasive aortic valve surgery occur if there is an aneurysm of the ascending aorta?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XQxijc2qn4k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Below, I have included a video transcript for the hearing impaired:<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Hi, everybody.\u00a0 This is Adam and we\u2019re coming to you live from STS in San Diego, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons meeting &#8212; the 47th annual event &#8212; and we\u2019re answering your questions for the surgeons that came in live off of HeartValveBlog.com. I\u2019m very happy to have with me Dr. Richard J. Shemin from UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to ask him a question about a topic that came in related to minimally invasive valve surgery and some additional work in the heart. The question comes from Barbara and she writes, \u201cAdam, after looking at your blog, I\u2019m aware that minimally invasive valve surgery can be done for the aortic valve but can this be done when there is an aneurysm of the ascending aorta?\u201d That\u2019s the question Dr. Shemin.\u00a0 If you could share your insights, we would love it.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Richard\u00a0Shemin: Well, Barbara, the answer is \u201cyes\u201d.\u00a0 Many of us who\u2019ve gained years of experience &#8212; doing minimally invasive valve surgery mitral valve or aortic valve surgery &#8212; have been able to extend the benefits of that minimally invasive surgery to also include the ascending aorta. So through a very similar approach, we\u2019re able to not only replace, sometimes repair, the aortic valve, but we can replace the ascending aorta and even the aortic arch through that same small incision. That confers the same benefits that other types of minimally invasive approaches would have for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/aortic-valve-replacement-surgery.php\">a simple aortic valve replacement<\/a>.\u00a0 The replacements are usually an artificial device called a graft which is an artificial tube.\u00a0 It\u2019s usually made out of a material called Dacron and this Dacron material can last a lifetime. So, there are not a lot of cardiac surgeons that have adopted these more advanced techniques for the ascending aorta but it\u2019s definitely possible if you find the appropriate institution and the appropriate surgeon.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Thank you, Dr. Shemin.\u00a0 Barbara, I hope that helped you learn more about this.\u00a0 I know it helped me.\u00a0 And, I just again, I want to thank you for taking the time to answer our questions and all the support that you\u2019ve given us, the education.\u00a0 We really appreciate it and I look forward to continuing our discussion here as we enjoy the STS Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Richard J. Shemin: Well, Adam, thank you very much for the wonderful service that you perform in providing patients, who are really consumers of health care, with the appropriate information to get the best.<\/p>\n<p>Adam: Thank you.\u00a0 Thank you so much.\u00a0 Great having you here.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Dr. Shemin, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Richard-Shemin-Los+Angeles+-California.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aneurysms"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41717,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/41717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}