Gvido Varpins

Publications

• Mestres CA, Stradins P, Varpins G, Ibáñez C, Quintana E. Transapical beating-heart septal myectomy, a game changer in the treatment of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: The Wei operation. Cir Cardiov. 2025;
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.circv.2025.04.003

• Varpins G, Quintana E, Caune N, Bahs GD, Stradins P, Mestres CA. Extra-anatomical ascending-to-descending aortic bypass in an adult patient with aortic coarctation. Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg. 2025 Oct 20;2025.

• Quintana E, Danchenko P, Rudenko K, Cicek S, Shipolini A, Braun J, Baufreton C, Myers PO, Färber G, Dumfarth J, Ranchordás S, Varpins G, Stradins P, Dorubantu L, Kolowca M, De Paulis R, Musayev KK, Raanani E, Nozohoor S, Pereda D, Mestres CA. Surgery for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: the European perspective. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2026 Feb;42(2):271–281.

Conferences and seminars

• Presentation at the 67th International Congress of the European Society of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery (ESCVS) with the study “Surgical management of acute Stanford type A aortic dissection: single-center experience before and after implementation of 24/7 emergency cardiac surgery service”, Strasbourg, France, 2018.

• Presentation at the 68th International Congress of the European Society of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery (ESCVS) with the study “Misdiagnosis of acute Stanford type A aortic dissection in emergency department: impact on early outcome”, Groningen, Netherlands, 2019.

• Presentation at the 1st Joint Meeting of the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) and the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS) with the clinical case “Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction in infant with absent pulmonary valve syndrome”, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2019.

• Presentation at the 71st International Congress of the European Society of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery (ESCVS) with the study “The significance of branch-vessel malperfusion in acute Stanford type A aortic dissection. Should we revise the Penn classification?”, Paris, France, 2023.

• Presentation at the 72nd International Congress of the European Society of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery (ESCVS) with the study “Emergent Re-Exploration Due to Significant Bleeding After Cardiac Surgery: Risk Factor Analysis”, Istanbul, Turkey, 2024.

• Presentation at the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) Annual Meeting 2022 with the clinical case “Surgery of late Salmonella enteritidis mediastinitis after proximal aorta repair: a reproducible perfusion strategy for vulnerable patients”, Milan, Italy.

• Organisation of the conference “Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: diagnosis & state-of-the-art treatment”, Riga, Latvia, 2023.

• Organisation of the conference “HOCM Riga 2024 Meeting: Up-to-date management of patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy”, Riga, Latvia, 2024.

• Organisation of the conference “HOCM RIGA 2026: Multimodality Imaging in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”, Riga, Latvia, 2026.

Supervision of student research

• Rīga Stradiņš University International Student Conference 2023, study “Acute type A aortic dissection in patients with aortic ectasia prior to the event: should we reconsider the current guidelines?”, student Gunārs Dāvis Bahs, 1st place.

• Rīga Stradiņš University International Student Conference 2024, clinical case “Massive left atrial cardiac myxoma in a 59-year-old female: a clinical case report”, student Justīna Ciganovska, 1st place.

• Rīga Stradiņš University International Student Conference 2024, clinical case “Preoperative ECMO as bridge-to-surgery for a critical patient with post-infarction ventricular septal defect”, student Gunārs Dāvis Bahs, 3rd place.