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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
May 13, 2020
This video demonstrates the unroofing of a left anterior descending coronary artery myocardial bridge combined with right ventricular septal myectomy in a patient with Noonan syndrome and HCM.
April 30, 2020
The anatomical correction for an obstructed mixed TAPVC in a 6-month-old child with failure to thrive is demonstrated in this video.
April 29, 2020
This video demonstrates the Ross procedure with Konno aortoventriculoplasty in a 4-year-old patient with severe, recurrent aortic stenosis.
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 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.
April 2, 2020
The authors demonstrate that a PTFE graft-to-innominate artery can be resuscitated and used months later during sternal reentry for expeditious arterial cannulation in infants when prepared and retained after neonatal arch reconstruction.
March 31, 2020
Mara Antonoff takes us into her home and along to work to demonstrate the process she follows to help protect her family during the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 27, 2020
This video demonstrates the excision of the neonatal intrapericardial teratoma.