SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS

● Cardio-Bridge 2019, 10-12 May3D live surgeries - workshops - wetlabsSpecial focus 2019: FMR Σχολιαστής στο εξαιρετικό συνέδριο με διεθνή συμμετοχή “Cardio-Bridge 2019” της Παν/κής Καρδιολογικής Κλινικής του ΠΓΝΠ.
● TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVES 2019, 3-4 May3D live surgeries - workshops - wetlabsSpecial focus 2019: FMR The Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (CTSNet) connects the global cardiothoracic community through communication, collaboration, education, and interaction amongst cardiothoracic surgeons and their teams across the globe. CTSNet provides a broad range of video and text-based educational content, the premier job board across all of cardiothoracic surgery, profile pages for cardiothoracic surgeons and individuals associated with the specialty, and a calendar of events related to the specialty.
● FOCUS: Valve 20193D live surgeries - workshops - wetlabsSpecial focus 2019: FMR 
11th Training course forMinimally Invasive Heart Valve SurgeryMedical University InnsbruckSept. 15-18, 2019
● Aorta session at the Athens Crossroad 2018, 8-10 Nov.

It is a great honor to be a moderator today in this highly prestigious Aorta session at the Athens Crossroad 2018 International meeting.

● Athens Crossroad 2018.TEVAR&EVARopen surgical extraction experience from Evaggelismos General Hospital of Athens,Greece.
● 40ο Πανελλήνιο Καρδιολογικό Συνέδριο 
Κ. Σπηλιωτόπουλος | Λοιμώδης ενδοκαρδίτιδα: Πότε καλείται ο χειρουργός;

● 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Baltimore, MD, May 14-18, 2016. 
Aortic Root Surgery with Circulatory Arrest: Predictors of Prolonged Hospital Stay and Implications for Lowering Hospital Cost and Expediting Recovery.
O. Preventza, K. Spiliotopoulos, J. Coselli.

● 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Baltimore, MD, May 14-18, 2016 (Faculty & Pontium presentation).
Are Outcomes of Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Different in Men vs. Women?
K. Spiliotopoulos, J. Coselli.

● AATS Aortic Symposium 2016, New York, NY, May 12-13, 2016 (Faculty & Pontium presentation).
Open Thoracic or Thoracoabdominal Aortic Repair After Previous Endovascular Aortic Procedures: 19-year Experience 
K. Spiliotopoulos, J. Coselli. 

● 10th Pan-Hellenic Conference of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons & 1st World Meeting of the Hellenic Cardiothoracic Diaspora. Athens, Greece, November 20-22, 2014 (Faculty & Pontium presentation).
1. Aortic Transection, Plenary Session 3-Thoracic Trauma 
2. Clinical Fellowship in North America: Experience and Comparisons, Round Table-Specialization in Thoracic Surgery. Need for re-evaluation and change of the present situation. 
  

● AATS Aortic Symposium 2014, New York, NY, April 24-25, 2014.
How Often Should We Follow Patients Undergoing Endovascular Repair with a stent-graft for Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury? 11-year experience.
K. Spiliotopoulos et al.

● AATS Mitral Conclave 2011, New York, NY, May 5-6, 2011.
Does the Mitral Valve Prosthesis Adversely Affect the Hemodynamic Performance of the Aortic Valve Prosthesis in Patients with Double Valve Replacement?
K. Spiliotopoulos, T. David.

● 57th Annual Meeting of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, Orlando, Florida, November 3-6, 2010 (Pontium presentation). 
Changing pattern of Reoperative Coronary Bypass Grafting: a twenty-year study.
K. Spiliotopoulos, V.Rao.

● 2010 Canadian Cardiovascular Congress
Montreal, Quebec, October 23-27, 2010
Surgical Management of a left anterior descending artery giant pseudoaneurysm secondary to Behcet disease.
K. Spiliotopoulos, S. Brister.

● 5th International Meeting of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center: Current Trends in Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology. Athens, Greece, September 16-18, 2010.
Endovascular treatment for acute traumatic aortic injury: mid-term results.
V. Anagnostakou, K. Spiliotopoulos et al.

● 7th Pan-Hellenic Conference of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons. Thessaloniki, Greece, November 28-30, 2008 (Pontium presentation).
1. Does the use of CO2 in an open heart surgical field reduce neuro cognitive sequelae due to air emboli?
K. Spiliotopoulos et al.
2. Frozen Elephant trunk technique for a combined approach to aortic arch and descending thoracic aorta disease.
I. Kokotsakis, K. Spiliotopoulos et al  
3. The experience of our institute on the endoscopic harvest of vein grafts.
V. Panagiotakopoulos, K. Spiliotopoulos et al  
4. The experience of our institute on the use of the pas-port proximal connector device and patients’ safety
M. Argyriou, K. Spiliotopoulos et al.

● 26th Pan-Hellenic Conference of Surgery/International Forum of Surgery 2008 
Athens, Greece, 12-15 November 2008.
Surgical management of blunt thoracic aortic trauma 
K. Spiliotopoulos et al.

● 18th WSCTS World Congress. World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons April 30th-May 3rd 2008  Kos, Greece
1. Aortic Valve Replacement using the Freedom Solo Valve. Superior Early Hemodynamic Results
Timothy Sakellaridis, K. Spiliotopoulos et al.
2. Endoscopic Vessel Harvesting (EVH): The learning experience of a teaching hospital.
Victor Panagiotakopoulos, C. Spiliotopoulos et al.

● European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2018 Jan 22. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezx502. [Epub ahead of print]
Management of expanding aortic arch aneurysm after hybrid endovascular and debranching repair.
K. Spiliotopoulos, Joseph S. Coselli.

● Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017 Dec 19. pii: S0022-5223(17)32893-3. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.11.095. [Epub ahead of print] 
In elective arch surgery with circulatory arrest, does the arterial cannulation site really matter? A propensity score analysis of right axillary and innominate artery cannulation.
O. Preventza, Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos, Joseph S. Coselli.

● Respir Med Case Rep. 2017 Oct 31;23:1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2017.10.014. eCollection 2018.
Successful treatment of postoperative massive pulmonary embolism with paradoxal arterial embolism through extracorporeal life support and thrombolysis.
Grapatsas K, Leivaditis V, Spiliotopoulos K et al.
● Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017 Aug 26. pii: S0022-5223(17)31783-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.08.023. [Epub ahead of print]
Open descending thoracic or thoracoabdominal aortic approaches for complications of endovascular aortic procedures: 19-year experience
K. Spiliotopoulos, S. A. LeMaire, J. S. Coselli.
​● Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2017 Oct;154(4):1203-1214.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.05.089. Epub 2017 Jun 3. PMID:28668459Are outcomes of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair different in men vs women? A propensity-matched comparisonK. Spiliotopoulos, J. S. Coselli, S. A. LeMaire.

● Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 Nov 16. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.10.090[Epub ahead of print]
Aortic root surgery with circulatory arrest: predictors of prolonged postoperative hospital stay.
O. Preventza, JS Coselli, K. Spiliotopoulos, DA Cooley.

● Texas Heart institute Journal, DOI 10.14503/THIJ-16-5985
Repair of an Intrapericardial Diaphragmatic Hernia During Aortic Surgery in an Adult
K. Spiliotopoulos, J. S. Coselli.

● General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2016 Jun 17; DOI 10.1007/s11748-016-0658-8.
Open aortic surgery after thoracic endovascular aortic repair.
Joseph S. Coselli, K. Spiliotopoulos et al.

● Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014 Dec;148(6):2956-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.08.019. Epub 2014 Aug 14. 
Endovascular Repair for Blunt Thoracic Aortic Injury: 11 years outcomes and post-operative surveillance experience.
K. Spiliotopoulos, C. Charitos.

- Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2012 Apr;143(4 Suppl):S74-7. Epub 2011 Nov 20.
Does the Mitral Valve Prosthesis Adversely Affect the Hemodynamic Performance of the Aortic Valve Prosthesis in Patients with Double Valve Replacement?
K. Spiliotopoulos, T. David.

- Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 Jul;92(1):40-7
Changing pattern of reoperative coronary artery bypass grafting:a 20-year study.
Kοnstantinos Spiliotopoulos, V. Rao.

- Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2011 Mar;91(3):912-4
Surgical Management of a Left Anterior Descending Pseudoaneurysm Related to Behcet Disease
Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos, S. Brister.

- Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2010;89:1304
Emergent endovascular repair as damage control step of aortic injury after posterior spinal instrumentation
John Kokotsakis, Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos et al

● Hospital Chronicles 2008, Supplement: 74-75
Concomitant Radiofrequency-Microwave Ablation and Atrial Septal Defect Repair
M. Argiriou, C. Spiliotopoulos, C. Charitos 

● Hellenic J Cardiol. 2008 Jan-Feb;49(1):52-4
Gerstmann's syndrome: can cardiac myxoma be the cause?
Sakellaridis T, Spiliotopoulos C, Charitos C.

● Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2008; 136(5):1377-8
Solitary metastasis of urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder to the heart: an unusual clinical manifestation
Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos, I. Bellenis

● Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2007; 133(6):1664-5
Diffuse lymphangiomatosis: Are there any clinical or therapeutic standards? Charalambos Zisis, Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos et al.

● Hellenic Journal of Surgery, 2007, 79, 2:101-106
Central pancreatectomy for the resection of pancreatic epithelial cyst. Serapheim Klimopoulos, Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos et al.

● Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2006; 132: 199-200
Pulmonary metastases of adult Wilms' tumor 17 years after the primary site Charalambos Zisis, Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos et al.