Mr George Asimakopoulos

 Professional experience

• More than 30 years of experience
• Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, 77 Wimpole Street Outpatient & Diagnostics
• Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Harefield Hospital 
• Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Harley Street Clinic
• Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Royal Brompton Hospital NHS + Private Patients

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 Sub-specialties

• Aortic root surgery
• Surgery for endocarditis
• Aortic valve replacement
• Aortic dissection repair
• Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)
• Surgery for atrial fibrillation.
• Aortic dissection
• Sutureless aortic valve replacement

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 Teaching posts

• Cardiac Surgical Tutor, Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery (SCTS) of Great Britain and Ireland

 Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Imperial College School of Medicine
• The University of Hamburg, Germany (1992)

 Publications and conferences

• Zhu Y, Mirsadraee S, Asimakopoulos G, Gambaro A, Rosendahl U, Pepper J, Xu XY. Association of hemodynamic factors and progressive aortic dilatation following type A aortic dissection surgical repair. Sci Rep. 2021 Jun 1;11(1):11521. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-91079-5. PMID: 34075164; PMCID: PMC8169847.
• Baghai, Max et al. “Clinical outcomes after implantation of a sutureless aortic bioprosthesis with concomitant mitral valve surgery: the SURE-AVR registry.” Journal of cardiothoracic surgery vol. 16,1 154. 30 May. 2021, doi:10.1186/s13019-021-01523-w
• Salmasi MY, Panda A, Hartley P, Abdulkhader A, Osman A, Nienaber C, Athanasiou T, Asimakopoulos G. Aortic root replacement to treat type A aortic dissection: A comparison of midterm outcomes between composite valve grafts and porcine aortic roots. J Card Surg. 2020 Aug;35(8):1840-1847. doi: 10.1111/jocs.14712. Epub 2020 Jul 9.
• Pal S, Hartley P, Salmasi Y, Asimakopoulos G. Establishing the Safety of Training in Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A Retrospective Comparison of Outcomes between Trainees and a Consultant Surgeon. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Mar 21. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1701668.
• Mohamed W, Asimakopoulos G. Is it safe and effective to reduce the target anticoagulation range for patients with mechanical prosthetic aortic valves? Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2020 Jun 1;30(6):904-909.
• Mohamed W, Asimakopoulos G. Preoperative C-reactive protein as a predictor of postoperative acute kidney injury in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. Perfusion. 2020 Aug 12:267659120947684. doi: 10.1177/0267659120947684.
• Muretti M, Elmahdy W, Ttofi I, Mozalbat D, Murphy M, Asimakopoulos G, Rosendahl U Surgical Repair of Mitral-Aortic Intervalvular Fibrosa Pseudoaneurysm in a High-Risk Patient 13 Years after Aortic Root Replacement. Tex Heart Inst J. 2019 Apr 1;46(2):147-150. doi: 10.14503/THIJ-17-6493. eCollection 2019 Apr
• Vaja R, Talukder S, Norkunas M, Hoffman R, Nienaber C, Pepper J, Rosendahl U, Asimakopoulos G, Quarto C. Impact of a streamlined rotational system for the management of acute aortic syndrome: sharing is caring. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2018 Nov 27. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezy386.
• Mitsis A, Yuan X, Christodoulou E, Semple T, Murphy M, Asimakopoulos G, Nienaber CA. Right ventricular dysfunction 10 years following a Bentall procedure. J Card Surg. 2018 Sep;33(9):563-564. doi: 10.1111/jocs.13788. Epub 2018 Aug 22.
• Vassiliou VS, Wassilew K, Cameron D, Heng EL, Nyktari E, Asimakopoulos G, de Souza A, Giri S, Pierce I, Jabbour A, Firmin D, Frenneaux M, Gatehouse P, Pennell DJ, Prasad SK. Identification of myocardial diffuse fibrosis by 11 heartbeat MOLLI T 1 mapping: averaging to improve precision and correlation with collagen volume fraction. MAGMA. 2018 Feb;31(1):101-113. doi: 10.1007/s10334-017-0630-3. Epub 2017 Jun 12
• Nesbitt JJ, Mori G, Mason-Apps C, Asimakopoulos G. Comparison of early and late quality of life between left anterior thoracotomy and median sternotomy for off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. Perfusion 2017 Jan;32(1):50-56
• Spiers, A, Baillie, S, Pipe, T & Asimakopoulos, G 2017, 'Negating the Fulcrum Effect in Manual Laparoscopic Surgery: Investigating Skill Acquisition with a Haptic Simulator' International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery. DOI: 10.1002/rcs.1837
• Vassiliou VS, Wassilew K, Cameron D, Heng EL, Nyktari E, Asimakopoulos G, de Souza A, Giri S, Pierce I, Jabbour A, Firmin D, Frenneaux M, Gatehouse P, Pennell DJ, Prasad SK. MAGMA. Identification of myocardial diffuse fibrosis by 11 heartbeat MOLLI T 1 mapping: averaging to improve precision and correlation with collagen volume fraction. 2017 Jun 12. doi: 10.1007/s10334-017-0630-3. [Epub ahead of print] 2016;18 (Suppl 1):Q5

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 Prizes and awards

• Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1997)
• British Society for Heart Failure
• European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery

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 Professional membership

• European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland
• British Society for Heart Failure
• The National Selection Committee for Cardiothoracic Surgical Trainees
• Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons
• The Heart Valve Society
• The British Society of Heart Failure

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