
John Kucera
Alpine ski racer
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Oct 6, 2026
Heart valves and heparin in AGS: cardiac surgeons' perspectives
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25:06John KuceraGUEST
So, um, when we started pulling data and, you know, the, the first data point that we wanted to look at was one year.
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25:16John KuceraGUEST
Are, are patients having this, this difference in their, you know, functioning of their valve at one year? And we didn't see that.
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25:27John KuceraGUEST
And I started talking with, you know, Dr. Turek and with, with Joe and, and really thinking, and I think there were, there were two critical things that happened.
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25:37John KuceraGUEST
There, there was that finding that we weren't seeing the difference that we thought we were going to see.
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25:41John KuceraGUEST
Um, and the second thing was we in the lab started doing xenotransplant studies in the context of partial heart transplantation, and that was where I learned about the bioburden of alpha-gal antibodies in the average human being.
