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
- Brewer, J. M., Lorusso, R., Broman, L. M., Conrad, S. A., Swol, J., & Maybauer, M. O. (2024). Central Venopulmonary Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Background and Standardized Nomenclature. Asaio Journal, 70(9), e123-e128. https://doi.org/10.1097/MAT.0000000000002239
- van de Koolwijk, A. F., Delnoij, T. S. R., Suverein, M. M., Essers, B. A. B., Hermanides, R. C., Otterspoor, L. C., Elzo Kraemer, C. V., Vlaar, A. P. J., van der Heijden, J. J., Scholten, E., den Uil, C. A., Dos Reis Miranda, D., Akin, S., de Metz, J., van der Horst, I. C. C., Winkens, B., Maessen, J. G., Lorusso, R., van de Poll, M. C. G., & INCEPTION-investigators (2024). Health-related quality of life one year after refractory cardiac arrest treated with conventional or extracorporeal CPR; a secondary analysis of the INCEPTION-trial. Resuscitation Plus, 19, Article 100669. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resplu.2024.100669
- Taccone, F. S., Minini, A., Avalli, L., Alm-Kruse, K., Annoni, F., Bougouin, W., Burrell, A., Cariou, A., Coppalini, G., Grunau, B., Hifumi, T., Heng Yen, H., Jouven, X., Jung, J. S., Lorusso, R., Maekawa, K., Mørk, S. R., Rob, D., Schober, A., ... Belohlavek, J. (2024). Impact of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation on neurological prognosis and survival in adult patients after cardiac arrest: An individual pooled patient data meta-analysis. Resuscitation, 202, Article 110357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2024.110357
- Chiarini, G., Mariani, S., Schaefer, A.-K., van Bussel, B. C. T., Di Mauro, M., Wiedemann, D., Saeed, D., Pozzi, M., Botta, L., Boeken, U., Samalavicius, R., Bounader, K., Hou, X., Bunge, J. J. H., Buscher, H., Salazar, L., Meyns, B., Herr, D., Matteucci, S., ... Post-Cardiotomy Extracorporeal Life Support (PELS-1) Investigators (2024). Neurologic complications in patients receiving aortic versus subclavian versus femoral arterial cannulation for post-cardiotomy extracorporeal life support: results of the PELS observational multicenter study. Critical Care, 28(1), Article 265. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-024-05047-2
- Salazar, L., & Lorusso, R. (2024). Protected cardiac surgery: strategic mechanical circulatory support to improve postcardiotomy mortality. Current Opinion in Critical Care, 30(4), 385-391. https://doi.org/10.1097/MCC.0000000000001179
- Kalra, A., Wilcox, C., Holmes, S. D., Tonna, J. E., Jeong, I. S., Rycus, P., Anders, M. M., Zaaqoq, A. M., Lorusso, R., Brodie, D., Keller, S. P., Kim, B. S., Whitman, G. J. R., & Cho, S.-M. (2024). Characterizing the Racial Discrepancy in Hypoxemia Detection in Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: An Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Registry Analysis. Lung, 202(4), 471-481. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-024-00711-4
- Mariani, S., Makhoul, M., Schaefer, A.-K., Wiedemann, D., & Lorusso, R. (2024). The knowledge gap on the ECMO gap: The importance of speaking the same language. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 168(2), e56-e57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.03.014
- Meani, P., Todaro, S., Veronese, G., Kowalewski, M., Montisci, A., Protti, I., Marchese, G., Meuwese, C., Lorusso, R., & Pappalardo, F. (2024). Science of left ventricular unloading. Perfusion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676591241268389

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