Board certified in cardiothoracic surgery by the American Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dr. Edwin Petrossian is the Medical Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery. The Cardiothoracic Surgery Team is part of the Northern California regional congenital heart program affiliated with Stanford University.
Dr. Petrossian has expertise in complex pediatric and congenital cardiovascular surgical repairs. He has published several journal articles and book chapters with an emphasis on the extracardiac conduit Fontan operation. He is Associate Clinical Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University.
A graduate of the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Petrossian completed his general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery residencies at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center in New York, where he received the Leo M. Davidoff Outstanding Cardiothoracic Resident Teaching Award. He subsequently completed research and clinical fellowships in pediatric cardiac surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.
Publications
Reinhartz O, Reddy VM, Petrossian E, Suleman S, Mainwaring RD, Rosenthal DN, Feinstein JA, Gulati R, Hanley FL. “Unifocalization of major aortopulmonary collaterals in single-ventricle patients.” Ann Thorac Surg. 2006; 82(3):934-8; discussion 938-9.
PMID: 16928512
Reinhartz O, Reddy VM, Petrossian E, MacDonald M, Lamberti JJ, Roth SJ, Wright GE, Perry SB, Suleman S, Hanley FL. “Homograft valved right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit as a modification of the Norwood procedure.” Circulation. 2006; 114(1 Suppl):I594-9.
PMID: 16820644
Petrossian E, Reddy VM, Collins KK, Culbertson CB, MacDonald MJ, Lamberti JJ, Reinhartz O, Mainwaring RD, Francis PD, Malhotra SP, Gremmels DB, Suleman S, Hanley FL. “The extracardiac conduit Fontan operation using minimal approach extracorporeal circulation: early and midterm outcomes.” J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2006; 132(5):1054-63.
PMID: 17059923
Amin Z, McElhinney DB, Strawn JK, Kugler JD, Duncan KF, Reddy VM, Petrossian E, Hanley FL. “Hemidiaphragmatic paralysis increases postoperative morbidity after a modified Fontan operation.” J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001; 122(5):856-62.
PMID: 11689788
Thompson LD, McElhinney DB, Findlay P, Miller-Hance W, Chen MJ, Minami M, Petrossian E, Parry AJ, Reddy VM, Hanley FL. “A prospective randomized study comparing volume-standardized modified and conventional ultrafiltration in pediatric cardiac surgery.” J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001; 122(2):220-8.
PMID: 11479493
Marcelletti CF, Hanley FL, Mavroudis C, McElhinney DB, Abella RF, Marianeschi SM, Seddio F, Reddy VM, Petrossian E, de la Torre T, Colagrande L, Backer CL, Cipriani A, Iorio FS, Fontan F. “Revision of previous Fontan connections to total extracardiac cavopulmonary anastomosis: A multicenter experience.” J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2000; 119(2):340-6.
PMID: 10649210
Petrossian E, Thompson LD, Hanley FL. “Extracardiac conduit variation of the Fontan procedure.” Adv Card Surg. 2000; 12:175-98.
PMID: 10949650
Thompson LD, Petrossian E, McElhinney DB, Abrikosova NA, Moore P, Reddy VM, Hanley FL. “Is it necessary to routinely fenestrate an extracardiac fontan?” J Am Coll Cardiol. 1999; 34(2):539-44.
PMID: 10440170
Reddy VM, Hendricks-Munoz KD, Rajasinghe HA, Petrossian E, Hanley FL, Fineman JR. “Post-cardiopulmonary bypass pulmonary hypertension in lambs with increased pulmonary blood flow. A role for endothelin 1.” Circulation. 1997; 95(4):1054-61.
PMID: 9054770
Kohl T, Szabo Z, Suda K, Petrossian E, Ko E, Kececioglu D, Moore P, Silverman NH, Harrison MR, Chou TM, Hanley FL. “Fetoscopic and open transumbilical fetal cardiac catheterization in sheep. Potential approaches for human fetal cardiac intervention.” Circulation. 1997; 95(4):1048-53.
PMID: 9054769
Schwartz DS, Petrossian E, Brodman RF, Frame R, Schwartz JD, Blitz A, McLoughlin DE, Levenson SM. “Wound healing after harvesting of the internal thoracic and the superior and inferior epigastric arteries.” Ann Thorac Surg. 1994; 57(5):1252-5.
PMID: 8179395
Petrossian E, Menegus MA, Issenberg HJ, Jones A, Frame R, Brodman RF. “Ultrasound evaluation of the inferior epigastric artery.” Ann Thorac Surg. 1994; 57(4):895-8.
PMID: 7605405
Heneghan SJ, Li J, Petrossian E, Bizer LS. “Intestinal perforation from gastrointestinal histoplasmosis in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Case report and review of the literature.” Arch Surg. 1993; 128(4):464-6.
PMID: 8457161
Schwartz DS, Factor SM, Schwartz JD, Petrosian E, Blitz A, McLoughlin D, Tellis V, Frame R, Brodman RF. “Histological evaluation of the inferior epigastric artery in patients with known atherosclerosis.” Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1992; 6(8):438-41.
PMID: 1389251