Month: June 2019

Liverpool Aortic Surgery Symposium VIII

The LABB group presented their work at the Liverpool Aortic Surgery Symposium VIII on 28th June 2019, which was attended by leading cardiothoracic surgeons from the UK and USA. Dr Jill Madine delivered a talk entitled ‘Idiopathic degenerative thoracic aneurysms are associated with increased aortic medial amyloid’. Dr Riaz Akhtar gave a talk entitled ‘Is bicuspid aortopathy associated with distinct patterns of matrix degradation?’

Congratulations to Riaz who was awarded the Best abstract presentation for scientific research in Thoracic Aortic surgery.

Paper published in Amyloid

Our paper ‘Idiopathic degenerative thoracic aneurysms are associated with increased aortic medial amyloid’ has now been published in the journal Amyloid. 

Aorta: Structure to Rupture 2019

AORTA: STRUCTURE TO RUPTURE 2019

2nd Annual meeting of the Liverpool Aortic Biomechanics and Biochemistry (LABB) Research Group

Date: 25th September 2019
Venue: Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool