Role

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Background

Laurent de Kerchove started his medical school in 1992 and graduated from Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, in 1999. After four years training in general surgery, he specialised in cardiovascular surgery with Professor R Dion at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and with Professor G El Khoury at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels. In 2008, he joined the surgeon’s staff at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc where he is currently working. He did his PhD in May 2014 on the role of annuloplasty in aortic valve repair. His special areas of interests in cardiac surgery are aortic surgery, valve repair and minimal access techniques.

Publications

• Perceval sutureless valve and structural valve deterioration
• Commissural Geometry and Cusp Fusion Insights to Guide Bicuspid Aortic Valve Repair
  
• Long-term durability of bicuspid aortic valve repair: a comparison of 2 annuloplasty techniques
• Two decades of valve-sparing root reimplantation in tricuspid aortic valve: impact of aortic regurgitation and cusp repair
• Propofol plus low dose dexmedetomidine infusion and postoperative delirium in older patients undergoing cardiac surgery
• Mitral valve repair for endocarditis

Memberships

• Cardiothoracic Surgery Network
• European Association For Cardiothoracic Surgery