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• September 18th Tal Golesworthy brings the ExoVasc® story to BioMedEng26
• September 18th From patient to pioneer: Tal Golesworthy tells the story behind ExoVasc® on BBC World Service
• May 21st A story that reminds us why the work matters
• April 29th Ross procedure in middle-aged adults | SCTS 2026 presentation
• February 17th A new, innovative procedure is a big step forward for patients with an enlarged aorta

• December 1st PEARS featured in Patient Innovation book
• November 12th Exstent Appoints Matt Thompson as CEO to Drive Global Growth in Personalised Aortic Support
• November 11th The 11 Beaches Walk raises money for research into cardiovascular disease
• October 27th Dr Ana Redondo awarded the EACTS Presidents Choice Award at EACTS 2025
• October 27th Exstent at EACTS 2025
• September 3rd PEARS implant video featured on the CTSNet homepage
• September 3rd Tal Golesworthy to lead a break out session on PEARS at the Marfan Information Day
• September 2nd How to Perform PEARS: A Comprehensive Guide to Personalized Aortic Root Support
• August 19th 1,400 patient milestone reached
• August 19th Tal Golesworthy meets patient 1,338: Richard Krajicek
• August 18th New article published in The Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia
• August 7th Aortic PEARS features in The Straits Times
• August 4th Paper on Aortic PEARS published in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
• July 11th Exstent attends EACTS Aortic Forum in Prague
• July 4th New paper on connective tissue disorder and high risk pregnancy
• June 17th Conal Austin presents at the Edinburgh Aortic Summit 2025
• June 6th PEARS Patient Story nominated for Royal Television Society Student Television Award
• June 6th PEARS surgery for Richard Krajicek
• May 23rd Ross PEARS Paper published in Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
• May 18th Exstent attends ASCVTS 2025
• May 10th Exstent attends VISAR 2025
• April 24th Tal Golesworthy to present at the Charing Cross International Symposium 2025
• April 16th Ana Redondo speaks at SCTS Annual Meeting 2025
• March 23rd 25 years ago today, the PEARS project was conceived
• March 23rd Tal celebrates 25 years of the ExoVasc®
• March 23rd Marfan Trust interview with Tal Golesworthy
• March 20th Conal Austin to present at the Australasian Thoracic Aortic Symposium 2025
• March 20th Renato Kalil to present at the 28th Brazilian Congress of Congenital Heart disease
• February 21st Conal Austin to present at Kardiologie Review Kurs
• February 12th 200th patient receives innovative Ross-PEARS implant
• January 21st ExoVasc® PEARS at Mind the Aorta
• January 21st Article published in the Marfan Foundation newsletter
• January 6th Nick Isiekwe’s ‘Long Road to Recovery’
• January 6th Sunday Times article discussing Nick Isiekwe’s ExoVasc® PEARS surgery
• January 6th Article on ExoVasc® Ross PEARS published on Children’s Health Queensland website
• January 6th ExoVasc® PEARS patient and journalist receives Silver Kavil Science Journalism award

• December 10th Paper Published in JACC on Redo Surgery after PEARS
• December 10th ExoVasc® PEARS surgery performed at Medisch Spectrum Twente, Netherlands
• December 10th ExoVasc® PEARS presentation at 2024 EACTS/STS/LACES Latin America Cardiovascular Surgery Conference
• November 22nd First ExoVasc® PEARS cases in Singapore
• November 22nd First ExoVasc® Cases in Germany
• November 22nd Exstent at the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZCTS) Annual Scientific Meeting 2024
• November 7th Tal Golesworthy and Conal Austin to present at ANZCTS Annual Scientific Meeting 2024
• October 26th Bologna Heart Surgery Symposium (BHSS)
• October 17th Podcast on PEARS
• October 10th Ana Redondo to present at the BBCA Annual Conference
• October 10th Exstent receives Cyber Essentials certification
• September 19th How a patient pioneered his own procedure
• September 18th Review Paper Published on first 1,000 patients to receive ExoVasc® PEARS
• September 4th International Patient Symposium: Living Better with Marfan, Loeys-Dietz, and VEDS
• August 29th Filip Rega to present an update on PEARS at the GenTAC Alliance Aortic Summit
• August 29th Exstent to exhibit at EACTS 2024
• August 29th Exstent to sponsor London Aorta 2024
• July 12th SME News, Managing Director of the Year Awards
• June 28th Victoria Sharpe named as one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering 2024
• June 24th IKEM releases podcast on ExoVasc® PEARS 
• May 28th Celebration of 20th anniversary of ExoVasc® PEARS
• May 23rd 20th anniversary of ExoVasc® PEARS
• May 14th First World Summit for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Bologna, Italy
• May 14th Petr Fila to present at VISAR 2024
• April 30th CKTCH Brno celebrates 60 ExoVasc® PEARS implantations
• April 19th Ana Redondo and Conal Austin publish a paper on Ross PEARS
• April 19th Exstent’s new Australian distributor and sponsor, BTC Cardio Pty, sponsors the Marfan and Aortopathy conference in Brisbane
• April 19th Ross-PEARS case on Liguria Region news
• April 19th Our 7-year experience supporting the Ross autograft with the novel technique of PEARS
• April 5th 1,000th patient receives an ExoVasc® Personalised External Aortic Root Support
• March 16th Poster prize at SCTS 2024
• March 15th Abstract accepted for AEPC Meeting
• March 13th ExoVasc PEARS at AATS Aortic Symposium
• March 11th Conal Austin to present at the 6th Heart Team Winter Summit
• March 6th Three PEARS surgeons to present at TPC 2024, Sydney
• January 16th Exstent receives EU MDR Conformity Assessment Certfication
• January 15th Tal Golesworthy to present at BIOMAT & Mat SAN congress 2024

• December 13th Tal Golesworthy presents at the QuickParts Open House on 6 December 2023
• November 6th Exstent approved for EU MDR Conformity Assessment
• November 6th Exstent retains MDSAP and ISO13485:2016 certification
• October 31st PEARS on BBC Radio 4 Today programme
• August 21st First ExoVasc PEARS procedure in Genoa, Italy
• August 16th English Premiership Rugby player Nick Isiekwe discusses his ExoVasc PEARS procedure
• July 4th Conal Austin and John Pepper presented on PEARS at the Barts Aortovascular Symposium 900
• June 16th Alastair Graham and Tal Golesworthy to speak at the 36th South West Acute Hospital Annual Cardiology Update, a meeting of the Irish Cardiac Society
• June 16th Victoria Sharpe wins Best Medical Device Company Managing Director 2023
• May 15th Exstent wins MasterControl’s award for Digital Transformation in Manufacturing in Lisbon
• April 29th Ana Redondo to present at the AATS 103rd Annual Meeting on 8 May 2023
• April 29th Athiná Kougioumtzoglou to present at the AATS 103rd Annual Meeting on 8 May 2023
• April 27th Petr Fila and Petr Němec to present at the XXXIth Annual Congress of the Czech Society of Cardiology on 14 May 2023
• March 9th ExoVasc® reaches 750 patient milestone
• March 9th Conal Austin gives Keynote Lecture on PEARS at the 5th Heart Team Winter Summit
• March 1st Conal Austin to present at SCTS Annual Meeting 2023
• March 1st Tal Golesworthy takes part in plenary debate at the Medtec Futures Conference

• November 14th Ana Redondo and Darryl Shore present at BCCA 2022
• November 8th Paper published in Current Opinion in Cardiology
• November 8th Exstent Limited receives its ISO 13485:2016 Certificate of Registration 
• September 13th Tal Golesworthy to present at the Marfan Information Day hosted by the Marfan Trust
• September 9th Exstent to exhibit at EACTS 2022
• September 9th Exstent to sponsor London Aorta 2022
• May 17th PEARS features in two presentations at the AATS Aortic Symposium Workshop Boston
• May 16th Tal Golesworthy to speak at Manufacturing Chemist Live
• May 11th Tal Golesworthy to give Keynote at HL7 FHIR DevDays International 2022
• May 10th Tal Golesworthy to present a webinar hosted by the Marfan Trust
• May 9th Ana Redondo presents abstract at SCTS 2022 Annual Meeting
• April 7th John Pepper presents at the Heart Valve Society Annual Meeting in Miami

• December 17th St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside in Queensland, Australia, sees its first PEARS heart procedure
• November 16th PEARS at the EACTS Aortic Forum
• October 29th Tal Golesworthy speaks at the Marfan Trust’s Marfan Information Day 2021
• October 25th Royal Brompton Hospital releases articles on Ross PEARS procedures
• August 31st The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia reaches 50 PEARS cases
• August 11th Two Clinical Papers published on ExoVasc®!
• July 12th Exstent completes move to new premises
• May 5th Exstent appoints Victoria Sharpe as new Managing Director

• September 9th Tal Golesworthy and Duke Cameron, MD present a PEARS project update at The Marfan Foundation’s E-Summit
• September 1st International E3 Summit
• August 29th Australian news reports on world first surgery on a pregnant patient
• August 4th Multicentre study confirms the value of the ExoVasc PEARS procedure

• November 15th PEARS Surgical Workshop delivered in Prague, Czech Republic
• October 6th PEARS presence at EACTS meeting
• August 27th 7 News channel in Australia reports on the introduction of the ExoVasc PEARS procedure at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane
• August 4th Personalised External Root Support
• May 28th Tal Golesworthy celebrates the 15th anniversary of receiving his ExoVasc® Personalised External Aortic Root Support
• May 16th Tal Golesworthy speaks at Fourth Slovakian Cardio Surgical Conference
• March 29th British Medical Journal article on patient innovation features ExoVasc PEARS implant
• March 7th One woman’s account of her Personalised External Aortic Root Support at London Bridge Hospital
• March 3rd Presentations at the Australasian Thoracic Aortic Symposium

• November 29th Tal Golesworthy speaks at Annual Postgraduate Course on Reconstructive Surgery of Aortic Valve, Aortic Root and Mitral and Tricuspid Valves in Wrocław
• October 31st PEARS featured in the London Evening Standard
• October 8th Tal Golesworthy speaks at the iMed Conference in Lisbon
• July 4th Tal speaks at Lab for Open Innovation in Science event
• May 13th Tal Golesworthy speaks at London Cardiothoracic Surgery Core Review Course
• April 12th Tal Golesworthy speaks at Polish Cardiological Society, Gdansk division
• March 27th Exstent appoints distributors in eight countries
• March 5th Tal Golesworthy speaks at Imperial College Surgical Society Innovation Conference

• December 6th Tal Golesworthy speaks at UK HealthTech 2017
• October 19th PEARS presented at EACTS Annual meeting
• October 18th Tal Golesworthy speaks to the 100th recipient of the ExoVasc, Brent Peacock
• September 12th ExoVasc surgeons to present at EACTS Annual meeting
• June 23rd Tal Golesworthy speaks at Transforming Ideas
• June 7th Tal Golesworthy speaks at Medforce Europe
• May 5th 100th patient receives the ExoVasc® implant
• April 9th Tal Golesworthy speaks at HEART in Cluj Napoce, Romania
• March 29th Tal Golesworthy features in BBC2 documentary series Incredible Medicine
• March 29th Incredible Medicine, episode 6: Discovery
• March 15th Tal Golesworthy speaks at Minds that Change the World conference at the Faculty of Medicine of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• January 13th Healthcare Heroes: The Passion Project

• October 27th Tal Golesworthy is keynote speaker at Research Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Summit
• October 22nd Tal Golesworthy is keynote speaker at BRAINCOMS
• October 21st Tal Golesworthy presents PEARS to surgeons at Instituto do Corãçao
• September 5th Editorial on PEARS published in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
• August 19th Tal Golesworthy features on Sky News’ Swipe
• March 31st PEARS review published in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
• March 4th Tal Golesworthy speaks at AEICBAS Biomedical Congress in Porto
• February 25th Tal Golesworthy speaks at HCA Healthcare UK Question of Quality Conference
• February 19th Tal is panel speaker at fifth IN4MED conference in Coimbra, Portugal

• December 17th Tal Golesworthy speaks at XIII Conference on Medical Robots held in Zabrze, Poland
• December 5th Tal Golesworthy discusses PEARS with cardiac surgeons at Charles University Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
• November 11th Tal Golesworthy speaks at Completing the Picture in Cumbernauld
• July 13th Tal Golesworthy receives Patient Innovation Award
• June 30th How Do You Fix Your Own Heart?‬
• June 17th Tal Golesworthy speaks at Completing the Picture
• June 13th Tal Golesworthy speaks at TEDxKraków
• June 13th Repairing hearts with some help from TED.COM
• June 5th PEARS team accolades
• April 30th Tal Golesworthy speaks at Scientific and Technological Advances in Cardiac and Vascular Surgery: a Translational Approach
• March 12th 50th patient receives the ExoVasc® support
• March 6th UK doctors draw attention to PEARS in the New England Journal of Medicine
• February 9th Tal Golesworthy awarded inaugural Patient Innovation Award
• January 16th PEARS paper published in Diseases

• November 18th PEARS case report published in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
• November 3rd Tal Golesworthy speaks at University of Minnesota’s Patient Innovation Forum
• October 31st Tal Golesworthy announced as one of the 50 most innovative people in healthcare
• October 15th Tal Golesworthy speaks at European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Annual Meeting
• October 15th A New Alternative to Root Replacement in Marfan’s Syndrome
• September 17th The PEARS project on BBC Radio 4
• July 31st Tal Golesworthy and Professor John Pepper’s presentation at 8th Medical Innovations Summit 2014 now available online
• July 3rd Medical Marvels: The man who repaired his own heart
• July 1st New article published in Heart’s Online First
• May 28th Tal Golesworthy and the PEARS project is featured in Die Zeit
• May 24th Tal Golesworthy celebrates the tenth anniversary of receiving his ExoVasc® Personalised External Aortic Root Support
• May 6th Tal Golesworthy’s TEDx talk features in Netflix’s Best of TEDx list
• April 11th Tal Golesworthy is keynote speaker at National British Heart Foundation 4-Year PhD Meeting
• April 5th Tal Golesworthy and Professor John Pepper speak at 8th Medical Innovations Summit 2014
• April 1st The Creators
• March 26th Tal Golesworthy’s TEDx talk watched over one million times
• March 15th Tom Treasure speaks at Marfan Information Day
• March 4th Tal Golesworthy speaks at the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo 2014 and is interviewed on BBC Radio Five Live
• February 7th Tal Golesworthy speaks at the Patient Innovation Launch Event in Lisbon
• January 17th Tom Treasure speaks at Gdansk Cardiosurgical Conference, Poland
• January 8th New article published in Heart’s Online First

• November 22nd Professor Tom Treasure presents a paper on the PEARS project at the Fourth Cardiff Cardiovascular Genetics Symposium 
• November 20th PEARS features in a report on the BBC website
• November 20th Tal Golesworthy and Mario Petrou interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford
• November 20th Tal Golesworthy and the PEARS project features on BBC Points West
• October 1st Articles by Tom Treasure on the Big Aortic Root Study published in Cardiology News and the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
• September 21st Tal Golesworthy delivers keynote speech at the Young European Scientist Meeting 2013
• July 3rd PEARS Project features on the BBC’s The One Show
• July 1st Prof Tom Treasure calls for expressions of interest to join in a comparative study
• May 24th Tal Golesworthy marks the ninth anniversary of receiving his PEARS implant
• April 25th Professor Tom Treasure speaks at the 9th Current Trends in Aortic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Interventions
• April 20th Tal Golesworthy speaks at the Norwich Technology and Innovation Symposium
• March 6th Tal Golesworthy receives Honorary Life Membership of the Law Society of University College Dublin
• March 1st New article in Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 2013
• January 5th Tal Golesworthy’s TEDxKraków talk seen by over 500,000 people
• January 3rd Tal Golesworthy speaks at Yale UCL Cardiovascular Device Innovation Summit

• November 1st Tal Golesworthy speaks at the Bright Ideas in Health Awards ceremony
• October 1st Tal Golesworthy speaks at Medipex 2012 NHS Innovation Awards
• August 2nd Tom Treasure presents at the Second GenTAC Aortic Disease Summit
• August 1st John Pepper presents a paper at the European Society of Cardiology annual meeting
• June 1st Article highlighting external aortic root support for the Marfan aorta
• April 16th Tal Golesworthy at the Sigma Symposium
• April 12th Tal Golesworthy’s TEDxKraków talk available online
• March 17th Marfan Association UK Annual Information Day
• March 1st BMJ Open Publication
• February 8th Talk at NIHR Cardivascualr Biomedical Research Unit

• December 11th Tal Golesworthy appears on BBC Radio Gloucestershire
• December 1st Exstent wins award
• December 1st Personalised External Aortic Root Support Project winner of the Medical & Healthcare category of The Engineer’s Technology and Innovation Awards 2011
• October 20th Tal Golesworthy at TEDxKraków
• October 20th Lessons learned from designing my own cardiac implant
• May 25th 7th Anniversary of first Operation
• May 25th NICE publishes its full guidance on the ExoVasc®
• March 19th Technology in Medicine and Surgery Conference
• January 17th Article in The Engineer

• September 1st Article published in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
• June 14th PEARS project features in The TCT Magazine
• May 20th British Medical Journal article
• March 22nd Annual Marfan Asscoiation Information Day
• March 13th Emerging technology
• February 1st Iteractive Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery article
• January 26th Articles on PEAR

• December 8th Two significant Milestones
• June 30th Royal Brompton Hospital approves device
• June 10th European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery features PEARS project
• June 1st 5th anniversary of first PEARS patient
• April 6th Marfan Information Day
• January 23rd Two More Patients for PEARS

• November 17th MRI scan confirms PEARS success
• October 13th 18 Year old undertakes PEARS procedure
• August 20th Exstent shortlisted for Medical Futures Innovation Awards