Aortic Hope

10/16/2026

❤️🫀 YOUR EXPERIENCE HAS VALUE — AND YOUR VOICE MATTERS.

Aortic Hope is excited to continue our collaboration with Rare Patient Voice, helping connect members of the aortic community with opportunities to share their real-world experiences with researchers.

Rare Patient Voice gives patients and caregivers the opportunity to participate in research such as interviews, surveys and other studies — and participants are paid for their time when they qualify.

Why does this collaboration matter to us?
Because research shouldn't happen around patients. Patients and caregivers should be part of the conversation.

Your experiences with diagnosis, surgery, recovery, medications, caregiving and simply navigating life with aortic disease can provide insights researchers can't get anywhere else.

❤️ Your story matters.
🎤 Your experience matters.
🔬 Your participation can help shape future research.

We’re proud to continue working with Rare Patient Voice to help make sure the voices of the aortic community are heard.

👇Take a look at the video and CLICK to join today...earn up to $150 for participating and Aortic Hope earns $10 for every new registration:

https://rarepatientvoice.com/AorticHope/?fbclid=IwAR2medetaJ7LSi6CDlsjKLcljX6m3Ofy5U8mw6pF1-RJdNl4XUA7Ekub3rY

10/16/2026

10/16
🎉 Happy Aortaversary! ❤️
❤️Please join us in wishing a very special Happy Aortaversary to the incredible members of our community celebrating today!
❤️An Aortaversary may mark the anniversary of a diagnosis, aortic dissection, surgery, or another life-changing moment in your aortic journey. Each anniversary represents another year of strength, resilience, hope, and life. ❤️
Help us celebrate them by leaving a ❤️, 🎉, or special message in the comments!
❓Would you like to be acknowledged on your Aortaversary?
Visit our Facebook album titled “Aortaversary Club.” Find the photo that corresponds with your Aortaversary date (please choose just one) and comment beneath it with your name, date, and year of your surgery or diagnosis.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1019667614871512&type=3
We would be honored to celebrate with you! ❤️

10/16/2026

What are you cheering for? 📣

10/15/2026

❤️🫀 How Has Perfusion Helped Make Aortic Surgery Safer?

The African Perfusionist, Emmanuel Mbaka is back!

The heart-lung machine has one extraordinary job: keep blood circulating and oxygen reaching the body while surgeons repair the heart or aorta.

But while that mission hasn’t changed, how perfusionists accomplish it has evolved tremendously over the past 10–20 years.

🧠 More sophisticated brain-protection strategies
📊 Better monitoring and real-time data
🩸 Greater focus on blood conservation
🌡️ More deliberate cooling and rewarming
❤️ Perfusion tailored more closely to the individual patient
🤝 And stronger teamwork across the entire surgical team

And what comes next may be just as exciting—from smarter monitoring and predictive analytics to AI-assisted decision support.

But there’s one thing technology can’t replace:

The perfusionist behind the heart-lung machine—and the team surrounding them.

Take a look back at how perfusion has evolved, what it means for complex aortic surgery today, and where it may be headed next.

👇 READ MORE: https://www.aortichope.org/blog

10/15/2026

10/15
🎉 Happy Aortaversary! ❤️
❤️Please join us in wishing a very special Happy Aortaversary to the incredible members of our community celebrating today!
❤️An Aortaversary may mark the anniversary of a diagnosis, aortic dissection, surgery, or another life-changing moment in your aortic journey. Each anniversary represents another year of strength, resilience, hope, and life. ❤️
Help us celebrate them by leaving a ❤️, 🎉, or special message in the comments!
❓Would you like to be acknowledged on your Aortaversary?
Visit our Facebook album titled “Aortaversary Club.” Find the photo that corresponds with your Aortaversary date (please choose just one) and comment beneath it with your name, date, and year of your surgery or diagnosis.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1019667614871512&type=3
We would be honored to celebrate with you! ❤️

10/15/2026

Who gets a shout-out today?

10/14/2026

🌀It's Wacky Wednesday🌀 at Aortic Hope!
On Wednesdays, we will pick one lucky person from the comments below whose name will be entered into a drawing at the end of the month.

🎁That person will win a prize from Aortic Hope valued at $25!
💥Remember, you have to play to win.
⬇️So drop a comment below!

10/14/2026

10/14
🎉 Happy Aortaversary! ❤️
❤️Please join us in wishing a very special Happy Aortaversary to the incredible members of our community celebrating today!
❤️An Aortaversary may mark the anniversary of a diagnosis, aortic dissection, surgery, or another life-changing moment in your aortic journey. Each anniversary represents another year of strength, resilience, hope, and life. ❤️
Help us celebrate them by leaving a ❤️, 🎉, or special message in the comments!
❓Would you like to be acknowledged on your Aortaversary?
Visit our Facebook album titled “Aortaversary Club.” Find the photo that corresponds with your Aortaversary date (please choose just one) and comment beneath it with your name, date, and year of your surgery or diagnosis.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1019667614871512&type=3
We would be honored to celebrate with you! ❤️

10/14/2026

What’s making you say YES?

10/13/2026

♥️Aortic Hope Community Liaison Bonit Sharma recently had the opportunity to speak at the Hackensack University Medical Center Symposium, sharing his powerful survivor story, the important lessons he learned along the way, and how those experiences led him to advocacy and his work with Aortic Hope.

♥️There is something incredibly impactful about bringing the patient voice into a room of medical professionals—putting a real person and a real journey behind the disease they treat.

Watch it on our AHTV YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/9ciYCXf1URQ

🎥 This is just a snippet of Bonit’s wonderful presentation, and we are so proud to have him representing Aortic Hope and our community.

Survivor. Advocate. Community Liaison. Making a difference by sharing his story. ❤️🫀

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