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Alexandros Paraforos
Alexandros Paraforos, M.D.
Background
März 2002 bis August 2003 Arzt im Praktikum und von September 2003 bis April 2005 Assistenzarzt in der Klinik für Herz- und Thoraxchirurgie, Direktor Prof. Dr. A. Krian Herzzentrum Duisburg "Kaiser-Wilhelm-Krankenhaus" Evangelisches und Johanniter Klinikum Duisburg / Dinslaken / Oberhausen gGmbH.
Von Mai 2005 bis Januar 2010 Assistenzarzt in der Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik für Herz- und Thoraxchirurgie, Martin Luther-Universität, Chefarzt Prof. Dr. R - E Silber.
Ab Februar 2010 Oberarzt und seit Januar 2015 leitender Oberarzt und Chefarztvertreter in der Klinik für Herz-und Thoraxchirurgie im Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder in Trier, Chefarzt Prof. Dr. I. Friedrich.
Other Interests
Assist Devices and Transplantations
Research
Studien
- Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart (STICH) Failure Trial – a multicentre international randomized trial
- Clinical and economical consequences of the left atrial bipolar radiofrequency ablation by persistent and permanent atrial fibrillation in the course of cardiac operations (QUO VADIS) – a prospective multicentre randomized trial
- CONSER V2 multicenter prospective randomized drug trial
- V710 multicenter prospective randomized trial
- REMOWELL prospective randomized trial
- PAR I Prosthesis-annulus ratio predictor of aortic valve hemodynamics
- ArterX® Surgical Sealant Prospective, Multi-Center Open-Label ArterX® Trial for Cardiac Indications
- PTCL-0192 Companion Diagnostics Study: A Follow-on, Observational, Prospective Study in High Risk Patients to Evaluate Novel Renal Biomarkers as Early Predictors of Acute Kidney Injury Following Cardiopulmonary Bypass Surgery
Publikationen
Case report: extracorporeal life support for treatment of fulminant pulmonary embolism in a young woman during pregnancy. Bruch C, Paraforos A, Kunitz O. Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther. 2013 Nov; 48(11-12):682-4. doi: 10.1055/s-0033-1361974. Epub 2013 Dec 16. German.
Myocardial viability and survival in ischemic left ventricular dysfunction. Bonow RO, Maurer G, Lee KL, Holly TA, Binkley PF, Desvigne-Nickens P, Drozdz J, Farsky PS, Feldman AM, Doenst T, Michler RE, Berman DS, Nicolau JC, Pellikka PA, Wrobel K, Alotti N, Asch FM, Favaloro LE, She L, Velazquez EJ, Jones RH, Panza JA; STICH Trial Investigators. N Engl J Med. 2011 Apr 28;364(17):1617-25. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1100358. Epub 2011 Apr 4.
Coronary-artery bypass surgery in patients with left ventricular dysfunction. Velazquez EJ, Lee KL, Deja MA, Jain A, Sopko G, Marchenko A, Ali IS, Pohost G, Gradinac S, Abraham WT, Yii M, Prabhakaran D, Szwed H, Ferrazzi P, Petrie MC, O'Connor CM, Panchavinnin P, She L, Bonow RO, Rankin GR, Jones RH, Rouleau JL; STICH Investigators. N Engl J Med. 2011 Apr 28;364(17):1607-16. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1100356. Epub 2011 Apr 4.
Coronary bypass surgery with or without surgical ventricular reconstruction. Jones RH, Velazquez EJ, Michler RE, Sopko G, Oh JK, O'Connor CM, Hill JA, Menicanti L, Sadowski Z, Desvigne-Nickens P, Rouleau JL, Lee KL; STICH Hypothesis 2 Investigators. N Engl J Med. 2009 Apr 23;360(17):1705-17. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0900559. Epub 2009 Mar 29.
Additional Educational Information
Printer-friendlyPractice Areas
- Cardiac
- Aorta
- Critical Care
- Endocarditis
- Mechanical circulatory assistance
- Minimally Invasive
- Aortic valve disease
- Coronary disease
- Transcatheter