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Berk Aykut

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Surgery

Overview


College/University: Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

Medical School: Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Recent Publications


Partial Heart Transplantation: Early Experience With Pediatric Heart Valve Replacements That Grow.

Journal Article Circulation · May 20, 2025 Heart valve replacement in children is fraught with long-term morbidity and mortality rates, largely because conventional implants lack the capacity to grow with the child. Partial heart transplantation presents a potential solution by transplanting only s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Early single-center experience with an ex vivo organ care system in pediatric heart transplantation.

Journal Article J Heart Lung Transplant · April 2025 Pediatric heart transplantation (HTx) faces challenges such as limited donor availability and the need for complex reconstructions, particularly in patients with congenital anomalies. Ex vivo perfusion offers a promising approach to minimize graft ischemic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Aberrant right subclavian artery intervention can provide relief of dysphagia.

Journal Article Cardiol Young · December 2024 BACKGROUND: An aberrant right subclavian artery represents the most common aortic arch vascular anomaly. Conventional wisdom states that these anomalies do not result in dysphagia, but rather serve as "red herrings". Clearly, in the vast majority of cases, ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


Tolerance to Allogeneic Hearts via Implantation of Cultured Donor Thymus

ResearchPostdoc Scholar · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2025 - 2028

Inducing Xenotolerance via Chimeric Thymus

ResearchPhysician · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2024 - 2026

Optimizing and Scaling Partial Heart Transplantation

ResearchPostdoctoral Associate · Awarded by The Brett Boyer Foundation · 2024 - 2024

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