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Krzysztof Bartus
Krzysztof Bartus, MD, PhD, Professor of medicine
Other Interests
1. Surgical and hybrid management of subjects with atrial fibrillation. Involed in:
First in man nContact procedure ( Episense - AtriCure),
First in man convergent nContact procedure ( Episense- AtriCure).
2. Percutaneous ligation of the left atrial appendage with LARIAT.
First in man Lariat LAA occlusion in 2009.
More than 600 cases performed.
First in Man AEGIS LAA occlusion 2014.
3. Application of aortic bioprostheses in subjects undergoing aortic valve replacement surgeries.
First in man sutureless Enable heart valve implantation 2005.
4. Developement of new techniques and devices for interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery.
5. Beating heart mitral valve repair.
First in man Harpoon ( Edwards Lifesciences) transapical mitral hords implantaion in 2016 .
6. Beating heart mitral valve implantation.
First in man Twelve Inrepid mitral valve implantation.
PI in the study.
7. First in man use or Resilia tissue valve ( current INSPIRIS)
8. Global Proctor for LAA exclusion with LARIAT
9. Global proctor for beating heart mitral valve repair _ Harpoon.
Research
Research:
- Investigator , Co-Investigator and Clinical study coordinator in 85 Clinical Trials. Most FDA controlled.
-Primary investigator and Co investigator in 28 first in man clinical studies (as of 2022).
-Cooperation with 65 start-up medical device companies since 2001
-Primary investigator and co-investigator in 40 pre-clinical animal studies being performed in 25 different animal labs around the world
( USA, Europe, China).
Scientific Work:
1. Author and co-author of 177 publications including publications in Lancet, European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Acta Cardiologica, Cell Tissue Banking, Heart Surgery Forum, American Journal of Hypertension, Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, Heart Rhythm, Circulation, Circulation Cardiovascular Intervensions, Circulation Arrhythmia and Electophisiology, Journal of American Coll of Cardiology and The Lancet.
2. Total impact factor of all publications around 470.
3. According to Web of Science my publications have in total more than 5600 citations.
4. Hirsh index 25.
Additional Educational Information
I graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in the Medical College of the Jagellonian University in 2000 in Krakow and started another job at the University Hospital in Krakow as an intern.
From 2001 till now, I have worked in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology of the Cardiology Institute at the Medical College of the Jagellonian University. I had this opportunity for professional and scientific development while working initially as a junior assistant, and then as a senior assistant and currently as an associate professor.
I passed my specialization examinations within cardiac surgery in 2009 ( Board certification in cardiac surgery).
Ph.D. degree in medical sciences I obtained in 2010. Doctor’s thesis was elaborated under the auspices of prof. Jerzy Sadowski, M.D., Ph.D. and was finished as “cum laude”.
Assoctiate Professor since 2012.
Full Professor of mecicine since 2018.
Printer-friendlyPractice Areas
- Cardiac
- Minimally Invasive
- Coronary disease
- Electrophysiology/arrhythmia
- Valve disease
- Endovascular
- Education
- Medical technology
- Basic science