Roberto Lorusso

Professor

Prof. Roberto Lorusso studied medicine at the University of Milan, Italy and graduated in 1987 magna cum Laude. He worked at Maastricht UMC+ in 1990 at CTC research and in 1996 and 1997 at the academic Hospital of Leuven. In 1998, he successfully obtained his PhD degree at Maastricht University (thesis titled 'Cardiac reinforcement and assistance by electrically stimulated skeletal muscle').

Currently, Prof. Roberto Lorusso is staff member at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Maastricht UMC+, Director of the Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS) Program, Full Professor of Cardiac Surgery and ECLS at the Maastricht University and CARIM. His research group is focussed on mechanical circulatory support, minimally invasive valve surgery, coronary surgery, cardiac valve disease, extracorporeal circulation, acute myocardial infarction complications, cardiac valve disease, preclinical and clinical research.

Prof. Roberto Lorusso won the Gasperis-Donatelli Prize in 1989, a Young Investigator Award in 1995 and the Lillehei Award in 1998 by the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. He was Scientific Secretary of the Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery in 2007 and 2008, President of Euro-ELSO (2015-2017), and he is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Multi-Media Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery as well as member of the ELSO Executive Committee.

He has almost 300 publications in PubMed, and has given more than 300 presentations at international meetings as invited speaker. He is Principal Investigator of international multicentre clinical studies and grant receiver from several funding bodies for clinical as well as pre-clinical investigations.

Department of Cardiothoracic surgery
P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht
PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht
Room number: D.2037
T: +31(0)43 387 60 32

2024
- Kowalewski, M., Urbanowicz, T., De Piero, M. E., Mariani, S., Pasierski, M., Makhoul, M., Comanici, M., Dabrowski, E. J., Matteucci, M., Massimi, G., Litwinowicz, R., Kowalówka, A., Wanha, W., Martucci, G., Raffa, G. M., Malvindi, P. G., Kuzma, L., Suwalski, P., Lorusso, R., ... Thoracic Research Centre (2024). Correction to: Regional antibiotic delivery for sternal wound infection prophylaxis a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (Scientific Reports, (2024), 14, 1, (9690), 10.1038/s41598-024-60242-z). Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 16283. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66983-1
- Battaglini, D., Kelly, T. L., Griffee, M., Fanning, J., Premraj, L., Whitman, G., Porto, D. B., Arora, R., Thomson, D., Pelosi, P., White, N. M., Bassi, G. L., Suen, J., Fraser, J. F., Robba, C., Cho, S. M., Al-Dabbous, T., Alfoudri, H., Shamsah, M., ... Mariani, S. (2024). Stroke in critically ill patients with respiratory failure due to COVID-19: Disparities between low-middle and high-income countries. Heart & Lung, 68, 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrtlng.2024.06.015
- Bari, G., Mariani, S., van Bussel, B. C. T., Ravaux, J., Di Mauro, M., Schaefer, A., Khalil, J., Pozzi, M., Botta, L., Pacini, D., Boeken, U., Samalavicius, R., Bounader, K., Hou, X., Bunge, J. J. H., Buscher, H., Salazar, L., Meyns, B., Mazeffi, M., ... Post-Cardiotomy Extracorporeal Life Support (PELS-1) Investigators (2024). Post-cardiotomy extracorporeal life support: A cohort of cannulation in the general ward. Artificial Organs, 48(11), 1355-1365. https://doi.org/10.1111/aor.14818
- Brewer, J. M., Broman, L. M., Swol, J., Lorusso, R., Conrad, S. A., & Maybauer, M. O. (2024). Standardized nomenclature for peripheral percutaneous cannulation of the pulmonary artery in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: Current uptake and recommendations for improvement. Perfusion, 39(8), 1538-1544. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676591231210457
- van Steenwijk, M. P. J., van Rosmalen, J., Kraemer, C. V. E., Donker, D. W., Hermens, J. A. J. M., Kraaijeveld, A. O., Maas, J. J., Akin, S., Montenij, L. J., Vlaar, A. P. J., van den Bergh, W. M., Lansink-Hartgring, A. O., de Metz, J., Voesten, N., Boersma, E., Scholten, E., Beishuizen, A., Lexis, C. P. H., Peperstraete, H., ... REMAP ECMO LV unloading study group (2024). A Randomized Embedded Multifactorial Adaptive Platform for Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (REMAP ECMO) - Design and Rationale of the Left Ventricular Unloading trial domain. American Heart Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2024.10.010
- Lenarczyk, R., Proietti, M., Scheitz, J. F., Shah, D., Siebert, E., Gorog, D. A., Kowalczyk, J., Bonaros, N., Ntaios, G., Doehner, W., Van Mieghem, N. M., Nardai, S., Kovac, J., Fiszer, R., Lorusso, R., Navarese, E., Castrejón, S., Rubboli, A., Rivera-Caravaca, J. M., ... Lip, G. Y. H. (2024). Clinical and subclinical acute brain injury caused by invasive cardiovascular procedures. Nature Reviews Cardiology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-024-01076-0
- Cho, S.-M., Hwang, J., Chiarini, G., Amer, M., Antonini, M. V., Barrett, N., Belohlavek, J., Brodie, D., Dalton, H. J., Diaz, R., Elhazmi, A., Tahsili-Fahadan, P., Fanning, J., Fraser, J., Hoskote, A., Jung, J.-S., Lotz, C., MacLaren, G., Peek, G., ... Lorusso, R. (2024). Correction to: Neurological monitoring and management for adult extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients. Critical Care, 28(1), Article 327. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-024-05107-7
- Cho, S.-M., Antonini, M. V., MacLaren, G., Zaaqoq, A. M., & Lorusso, R. (2024). Highlights of the 2024 ELSO Consensus Guidelines on Neurological Monitoring and Management for Adult ECMO. Asaio Journal. https://doi.org/10.1097/MAT.0000000000002324
- Bunge, J. J. H., Mariani, S., Meuwese, C., van Bussel, B. C. T., Di Mauro, M., Wiedeman, D., Saeed, D., Pozzi, M., Loforte, A., Boeken, U., Samalavicius, R., Bounader, K., Hou, X., Buscher, H., Salazar, L., Meyns, B., Herr, D., Matteucci, S., Sponga, S., ... Post-Cardiotomy Extracorporeal Life Support (PELS-1) Investigators (2024). Characteristics and Outcomes of Prolonged Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation After Cardiac Surgery: The Post-Cardiotomy Extracorporeal Life Support (PELS-1) Cohort Study. Critical Care Medicine, 52(10), e490-e502. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000006349
- Di Nardo, M., Moreau, A., Annoni, F., Su, F., Belliato, M., Broman, L. M., Malfertheiner, M., Lorusso, R., & Taccone, F. S. (2024). Evaluation of a new magnetically suspended centrifugal neonatal pump in healthy animals using a veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation configuration. Perfusion, 39(7), 1462-1470. Article 02676591231202380. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676591231202380

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