Ana Redondo gave a presentation entitled ‘Our experience with Personalised External Aortic Root Support for dilation aortopathies’ and Darryl Shore presented on ‘When to pick PEARS: an update’ at the British  Congenital Cardiac Association Annual Conference in Birmingham on 7-8 November 2022.

More information can be found at bcca2022.co.uk.

A paper entitled ‘Personalized external aortic root support in aneurysm disease’ authored by Tom Treasure, Conal Austin, Louise Kenny and John Pepper has been published in Current Opinion in Cardiology. It provides an update on the last 18 years since the first PEARS operation. You can download a copy of the paper here.

After a lot of hard work by the whole Exstent team and a very thorough audit by BSI in July, the Exstent Quality Management System has now been certified as compliant to ISO 13485:2016. You can download a copy of the certificate here.

On 12 May 2022 at 9:50am (UK time), Tal Golesworthy will present at the Marfan Information Day virtual conference hosted by the Marfan Trust. His presentation is entitled PEARS Update from Worldwide Experience.

You can find out more and book tickets on the Marfan Trust website: www.marfantrust.org/events/marfan-information-day.

Exstent Ltd will be exhibiting at EACTS 2022, which runs 5 – 8 October 2022 in Milan, Italy. The meeting is the largest event for the cardiothoracic community.

For more information, visit www.eacts.org/annual-meeting.

We’ll be on stand B31 – we hope to see you there!

Exstent Ltd is sponsoring London Aorta 2022, which runs 29 – 30 September 2022 at the Royal College of Physicians. The purpose of the event is to foster and encourage a multidisciplinary approach to aortic diseases which are often complex and require life-long surveillance.

For more information, visit www.londonaorta.org.

PEARS was featured in two presentations given at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery’s Aortic Symposium Workshop Boston, which took place in Boston on 13 and 14 May 2022.

Lukas Van Hoof’s presentation was ‘Personalised External Aortic Root Support and Valve Sparing Root Replacement in Syndromic Aortic Root Aneurysm: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis’. Read more about the presentation.

Ana Redondo’s presentation was ‘Personalised External Aortic Root Support (PEARS): Our Preliminary Single Surgeon Results on 100 Patients’. Read more about the presentation.

Full information on the symposium, which focused on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of aortic aneurysms and dissections, is available on the AATS website.

Tal Golesworthy will be speaking at Manufacturing Chemist Live, which runs 25-26 May 2022 at the National Conference Centre in Birmingham.

The event is designed to highlight the current standards and regulations affecting the pharmaceutical industry and latest production protocols. It will shine a spotlight on reducing the complexity, cost and risk of successful drug delivery, by exploring the drug supply chain through live lectures, seminars and panel discussions.

Tal’s presentation will be ‘Innovation in medicine: patient, heal thyself!’

For more information about the conference and to book tickets, visit the Manufacturing Chemist Live website.

On 7 June 2022, Tal Golesworthy will present a keynote at HL7® FHIR® DevDays International 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

In ‘Patient data: enabling personalised surgery’, Tal will argue that patients with appropriate technical and professional skills can contribute to medical development  and change patient treatments and outcomes IF they are granted access to and taken seriously by the world of medicine. Tal’s journey through the PEARS project illustrates what can be achieved if clinicians’ minds are opened to new ways of processing patient data.

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is the global industry standard for passing healthcare data between systems and the DevDays International provides a plethora of content for both developers and non-coders, for FHIR starters and FHIR experts alike.

For more information, visit the HL7® FHIR® DevDays International 2022 website.

On 12 May 2022 at 12:30pm (UK time), Tal Golesworthy will present an hour-long webinar hosted by the Marfan Trust. During the webinar, Tal will discuss the ExoVasc® procedure and its latest developments. There will also be a Q&A session.

You can find out more and book tickets on the Marfan Trust website.