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Benoit de Varennes

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Associate Professor of Surgery, McGill UniversityDivision of Cardiothoracic SurgeryMcGill University

Benoit de Varennes

Associate Professor of Surgery, McGill University

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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12 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Latest papers

Explant of uncovered nitinol aortic arch stent after deployment for acute type A aortic dissection: A case report.
JTCVS techniques · 2026 · senior author
Fractured Sternal Wires Post Coronary Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Study Examining Wire Configurations, Sternal Locations, and Breakage Sites.
The Annals of thoracic surgery · 2026
Predictors of Procedural and Clinical Outcomes Following Transcatheter Tricuspid Edge-to-Edge Repair: An Expert Overview.
JACC. Cardiovascular interventions · 2026

All 39 publications

39 publications.

Explant of uncovered nitinol aortic arch stent after deployment for acute type A aortic dissection: A case report.

Alharbi MA, Lachapelle KJ, de Varennes B

JTCVS techniques2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.xjtc.2026.102298 PMID: 42292112

Fractured Sternal Wires Post Coronary Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Study Examining Wire Configurations, Sternal Locations, and Breakage Sites.

Stoklosa K, Munteanu D, Lachapelle K, Spaziano M, Shum-Tim D, de Varennes B, Tchervenkov C, Drullinsky D

The Annals of thoracic surgery2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2026.02.010 PMID: 41759807

Predictors of Procedural and Clinical Outcomes Following Transcatheter Tricuspid Edge-to-Edge Repair: An Expert Overview.

Gibson W, Wunderlich NC, Alranini I, Karaduman BD, Al Asmar M, Buithieu J, Chetrit M, de Varennes B, Drullinsky D, Fam NP, Kedhi E, Lachapelle K, Modine T, Mousavi N, Mylotte D, Prendergast B, Spaziano M, Thériault-Lauzier P, Stephan von Bardeleben R, Zgheib A, Martucci G, Piazza N

JACC. Cardiovascular interventions2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2026.03.017 PMID: 42191312

Aortic Stenosis in Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia: The Canadian HoFH Registry.

Erzingatzian A, Al-Baldawi Z, Ruel I, Brown L, Sherman MH, Laflamme N, Bergeron J, Couture P, Paquette M, Baass A, Brisson D, Larouche M, Gaudet D, Cermakova L, Wan D, Brunham LR, Francis GA, Mancini GBJ, Kennedy BA, Hegele RA, Lewis GF, McCrindle BW, Ransom T, McPherson R, Piazza N, de Varennes B, Genest J, Iatan I

JACC. Advances2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2025.102505 PMID: 41579830

POINTER: study protocol for a phase 2b, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel group dose-finding clinical study to evaluate the efficacy of RMC-035 on renal function and safety, in participants at high risk for kidney injury, following open-chest cardiac surgery.

Zarbock A, Strauss C, Laflamme M, Myjavec A, Böhm J, Burkert J, Mazer CD, de Varennes B, Iglesias AG, Matschke K, Larsson TE, Reusch M, POINTER study group

Trials2025

DOI: 10.1186/s13063-025-09124-x PMID: 41152991

Efficacy and safety of therapeutic alpha-1-microglobulin RMC-035 in reducing kidney injury after cardiac surgery: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, parallel group, phase 2a trial

Zarbock A, Larsson TE, Noiseux N, Mazer CD, Böhm J, Laflamme M, Matschke K, Burkert J, de Varennes B, Myjavec A

EClinicalMedicine20248 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102830

Contemporary Review of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery: Current Considerations and Innovations.

Alsheebani S, Goubran D, de Varennes B, Chan V

Journal of cardiovascular development and disease2024

DOI: 10.3390/jcdd11120404 PMID: 39728294

Long-term follow-up of posterior mitral leaflet extension for Type IIIb ischemic mitral regurgitation.

Alsheebani S, Albert C, de Varennes B

JTCVS open2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.xjon.2024.01.007 PMID: 38690431

Study protocol of a phase 2, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, adaptive, parallel group clinical study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of recombinant alpha-1-microglobulin in subjects at high risk for acute kidney injury following open-chest cardiac surgery (AKITA trial)

Mazer CD, Siadati-Fini N, Boehm J, Wirth F, Myjavec A, Brown CD, Koyner JL, Boening A, Engelman DT, Larsson TE

BMJ Open20233 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-068363

Predictors of mitral valve haemodynamics after mitral valve repair for degenerative mitral regurgitation.

Rumman RK, Verma S, Chan V, Mazer D, Quan A, Hibino M, De Varennes B, Chu MWA, Latter D, Teoh H, Yanagawa B, Leong-Poi H, Connelly KA

Heart (British Cardiac Society)2023

DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2022-321753 PMID: 36750353

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Benoit de Varennes

Research

Latest papers

Explant of uncovered nitinol aortic arch stent after deployment for acute type A aortic dissection: A case report.

Fractured Sternal Wires Post Coronary Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Study Examining Wire Configurations, Sternal Locations, and Breakage Sites.

Predictors of Procedural and Clinical Outcomes Following Transcatheter Tricuspid Edge-to-Edge Repair: An Expert Overview.

Aortic Stenosis in Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia: The Canadian HoFH Registry.

POINTER: study protocol for a phase 2b, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, parallel group dose-finding clinical study to evaluate the efficacy of RMC-035 on renal function and safety, in participants at high risk for kidney injury, following open-chest cardiac surgery.

Efficacy and safety of therapeutic alpha-1-microglobulin RMC-035 in reducing kidney injury after cardiac surgery: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, parallel group, phase 2a trial

Contemporary Review of Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery: Current Considerations and Innovations.

Long-term follow-up of posterior mitral leaflet extension for Type IIIb ischemic mitral regurgitation.

Study protocol of a phase 2, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, adaptive, parallel group clinical study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of recombinant alpha-1-microglobulin in subjects at high risk for acute kidney injury following open-chest cardiac surgery (AKITA trial)

Predictors of mitral valve haemodynamics after mitral valve repair for degenerative mitral regurgitation.

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