This video demonstrates the Ross procedure with Konno aortoventriculoplasty in a 4-year-old patient with severe, recurrent aortic stenosis.
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April 28, 2020
CTSNet has developed a resource to help share real time information about the COVID-19 pandemic for the cardiothoracic community.
April 25, 2020
A timely article addressing common questions related to the COVID pandemic, particularly regarding preoperative decision-making for pediatric/congenital heart surgery.
April 22, 2020
"We were all worried about the availability of ventilators but actually you've got to have enough people to run them." Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Joel Dunning, decided to do something about it by redeploying as an ICU Nurse for the NHS, setting a great example for all clinicians being asked to consider roles outside of the comfort zone.
April 21, 2020
CTSNet invites you to participate in the COVID-19 Message Board to offer advice, insights, algorithms, and technical tips, and to pose questions for the cardiothoracic community regarding COVID-19.
April 20, 2020
This video provides the clinical background, intraoperative technique, and postoperative result of a 16-month-old patient with Shone's complex (aortic valve, mitral valve, left ventricular, and aortic arch hypoplasia) and VSD who previously underwent a single ventricle pathway through the Glenn procedure stage, but then underwent a staged left ventricular recruitment operation to promote left ventricular growth for future consideration for biventricular conversion.
April 15, 2020
The authors present a novel technique for intracardiac baffle in scimitar syndrome that reroutes scimitar vein drainage to the left atrium by approximating the inferior border of a newly created atrial septal defect to the atrial tissue adjacent to the superior border of the scimitar vein.
April 14, 2020
Guidance document to assist in decision making and triage of congenital cardiac surgical patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 13, 2020
This video demonstrates a right modified Blalock-Taussig-Thomas shunt with a cryopreserved saphenous vein in a DORV with criss-cross heart and severe RVOT.
April 9, 2020
The authors present a video of an abbarent subclavian artery repair.