In this episode of The Beat, CTSNet EIC Joel Dunning discusses a new dissolving cardiac monitor used to treat heart disease and reviews a video demonstrating the Nikaidoh operation for aortic translocation repair, among other news and clinical content.
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Congenital
July 17, 2023
This video demonstrates a repeat sternotomy with David VI valve-sparing aortic root replacement in an eighteen-year-old.
July 13, 2023
The Côte d’Ivoire Health Ministry has announced a local capacity building initiative to establish the country’s local congenital cardiac surgery capabilities and enable Côte d’Ivoire to become a model for other African countries to build similar programs.
July 11, 2023
This video is an illustration of the Nikaidoh operation, also referred to as aortic translocation repair, which has largely replaced the Rastelli operation for the indication of d-transposition of the great arteries with ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.
June 29, 2023
This specialist review of congenital aortic root anatomy provides a detailed framework for evaluating and treating pediatric and adult patients across the whole spectrum of congenital aortic root pathology.
June 20, 2023
June 13, 2023
This case demonstrates the feasibility of concomitant pectus excavatum repair with cardiac surgical intervention and illustrates the safety and efficacy of this combined approach.
June 8, 2023
This analysis of 279 neonates with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum who underwent surgical or catheter intervention between 2009 and 2019 in nineteen centers showed that seventy-nine (28 percent) underwent right ventricular decompression, 151 (54 percent) underwent systemic-to-pulmonary shunt or ductal shunt only, thirty-six (13 percen
June 8, 2023
This video demonstrates two different surgical techniques for repair of anomalous aortic origin of the right coronary artery: translocation and unroofing.
May 11, 2023
This single institution study retrospectively reviewed the outcome of pediatric Ebstein’s anomaly surgical correction. Of the 188 patients with a median (IQR) age of three years (1.6–5.6), 108 had cone reconstruction. Nearly 30 percent of patients required a bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt.