AkinobuItohMDPhD(He/Him)
Thoracic Surgery • Boston, MAAdult Cardiac Surgery, Aortic Surgery, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Cardiac Surgery, Staff Cardiac Surgeon, Surgical Director of Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts
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Office
75 Francis St
Boston, MA 02115Phone+1 617-732-7678Fax+1 617-732-6559- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Akinobu Itoh is a cardiac surgeon in Boston, MA and affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brigham Foxborough Health Center, Kent Hospital in Warwick RI.
He has been in practice 23 years. He specializes in complex valvular repair and replacements, coronary artery bypass (On and Off pump), atrial fibrillation and pacemaker surgeries, aortic aneurysm surgery, left ventricular assist device, heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support including ECMO and Impella, and re-operation for patients who previously had heart surgery.
Education & Training
Tohoku University Faculty of MedicineClass of 1998
Certifications & Licensure
MO State Medical License 2015 - 2025
NY State Medical License 2012 - 2025
MA State Medical License 2021 - 2024
RI State Medical License 2022 - 2024
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Teaching award Brigham and Women's Hospital, 2023
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Ventricular assist device using a thoracotomy-based implant technique: Multi-Center Implantation of the HeartMate 3 in Subjects With Heart Failure Using Surgical Techn...Igor Gosev, Duc Thinh Pham, John Y Um, Anelechi C Anyanwu, Akinobu Itoh, Kunal Kotkar, Koji Takeda, Yoshifumi Naka, Matthias Peltz, Scott C Silvestry, Gregory Couper, ...> ;The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2024 Feb 15
- Surgically implanted endovascular, microaxial left ventricular assist device: A single institution study.Schumer, E., Masood, M., Schilling, J., Ewald, G., Damiano, M., Fischer, I., Damiano, R., Bai, Y., Kotkar, K., Itoh, A., Kaneko, T., Pawale, A.> ;JTCVS Techniques. 2024 Feb 1
- Characterization of de novo malignancy after orthotopic heart transplantation: single-centre outcomes over 20 years.Nadia H Bakir, Ioana B Florea, Jordan Phillipps, Joel D Schilling, Marci S Damiano, Gregory A Ewald, Kunal D Kotkar, Akinobu Itoh, Ralph J Damiano Jr, Marc R Moon, Muh...> ;European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 2023 Oct 4
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Press Mentions
Concurrent LAA Occlusion Loses Its Appeal for LVAD SurgeonsOctober 5th, 2022- Dr. Natalie Tapaskar of CardioNerds Speaks to Dr. Akinobu Itoh About a State-of-the-Art Heart PumpMay 25th, 2022
- Team Who Cared for Pregnant Woman with COVID-19 Reflects on ‘Miracle’January 19th, 2021
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Other Languages
- Japanese
Hospital Affiliations
Kent HospitalWarwick, Rhode Island
Brigham and Women's HospitalBoston, Massachusetts
Boston Medical CenterBoston, Massachusetts
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