Education

• MD, University of Athens Medical School, Athens Greece, 1994
• Residency in General Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, 1997
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Heart and Vascular Institute of Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, 2002
• Residency in Cardiothoracic Surgeyr, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004
• Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, 2006

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Anagnostopoulos specializes in complex neonatal and infant cardiac reconstructive surgery, pediatric heart surgery, adult congenital cardiac surgery, single ventricle palliation, extracorporeal life support, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ventricular assist devices, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, hybrid surgical-catheterization cardiac surgery, off-pump cardiac surgery, complex mitral and tricuspid valve repair, aortic root surgery, tetralogy of Fallot, coronary artery anomalies, Ross operations, obstructive cardiomyopathy, and heart transplantation.

Research Interests

Recent Publications

• Late Manifestation of Coarctation of the Aorta After Arterial Switch Operation for D-Transposition of the Great Arteries With Intact Ventricular Septum.
  Egan KR, Srinivasan S, Hagen SA, Anagnostopoulos PV
  Pediatric cardiology 2012 May 6.
  [PubMed ID: 22562776]
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• Surgical management of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
  Anagnostopoulos PV, Johnson NC, Robertson L, Sapru A, Azakie A
  J Card Surg 2012 Jan; 27(1):103-11.
  [PubMed ID: 22150843]
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• Early results of the "clamp and sew" Fontan procedure without the use of circulatory support.
  Shinkawa T, Anagnostopoulos PV, Johnson NC, Presnell L, Watanabe N, Sapru A, Azakie A
  Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2011 May; 91(5):1453-9.
  [PubMed ID: 21524454]
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• Stage II palliation of hypoplastic left heart syndrome without cardiopulmonary bypass.
  Azakie A, Johnson NC, Anagnostopoulos PV, Akram SM, McQuillen P, Sapru A
  J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 2011 Feb; 141(2):400-6.
  [PubMed ID: 21241860]
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• Cardiac surgery in low birth weight infants: current outcomes.
  Azakie A, Johnson NC, Anagnostopoulos PV, Egrie GD, Lavrsen MJ, Sapru A
  Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2011 Mar; 12(3):409-13, discussion 414.
  [PubMed ID: 21106568]
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• Performance of bovine pericardial valves in the pulmonary position.
  Shinkawa T, Anagnostopoulos PV, Johnson NC, Watanabe N, Sapru A, Azakie A
  Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2010 Oct; 90(4):1295-300.
  [PubMed ID: 20868832]
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