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A 38-year-old male with hypoplastic left heart syndrome underwent all three stages of palliation as a child. He presented with a small and calcified Fontan conduit. The decision was made to convert... More
November 20, 2024
CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Professor Enoch Akowuah about the challenges facing cardiothoracic surgery.
October 23, 2024
A 2-month-old female infant was diagnosed postnatally with a 2/6 ejection murmur. This video demonstrates a modified four-patch closure to repair the supravalvar aortic stenosis.
October 11, 2024
Neonatal epicardial pacemaker implantation is a necessary surgery due to the lack of transcatheter options for neonates. Congenital and post-surgical heart blocks in the neonatal population can only be treated by surgical intervention. The authors present the technical aspects of surgical implantation of an epicardial pacemaker.
October 9, 2024
This video demonstrates a surgical correction of a 21-months-old infant female diagnosed with pentalogy of Cantrell and a persistent left superior vena cava without a bridging vein.
September 19, 2024
The minimally invasive approach has recently been advocated for repairing various congenital cardiac anomalies, including ASD, partial AV canal, subaortic web resection, VSD, and PAPVC. The authors report this approach for the supracardiac TAPVC and to their knowledge, this is the first report of this type of operation.
September 11, 2024
This video demonstrates a surgical technique developed by Magdi Yacoub for repairing common arterial trunk (CAT) by using autologous arterial tissues to create new right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery continuity.
September 6, 2024
This video illustrates how to use Da Silva’s cone repair technique to repair the tricuspid valve in an Ebstein anomaly type C and simultaneously perform a repair of a partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage from the left superior pulmonary vein to the innominate vein, anastomosing the pulmonary vein to the anterior surface of the left atrium.
August 29, 2024
An 18-year-old male with complex congenital heart defects, including dextrocardia and a functional single ventricle, had his obstructive Fontan conduit replaced with a new PTFE graft. The procedure avoided cardiopulmonary bypass and involved rerouting the conduit, which helped improve his symptoms significantly.
August 23, 2024
This video demonstrates a resection of a subaortic membrane in a three-year-old child via a vertical right axillary thoracotomy (VRAT).
August 16, 2024
The authors demonstrate an early surgical correction of a neonate with aortic coarctation and arch hypoplasia with additional partially anomalous pulmonary venous connection of the right upper pulmonary vein to the superior vena cava.