There are concerns surrounding false negative upper respiratory tract COVID-19 swabs in asymptomatic patients and planned for surgery. Two patients who underwent major elective cardiac surgery are presented.
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Congenital
April 27, 2021
April 23, 2021
The case of a minimally invasive repair of the anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery in adult is presented in this video.
April 15, 2021
Off pump extra-cardiac non-fenestrated Fontan in a 6-year old child with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum.
April 8, 2021
This video illustrates the feasibility of aortic coarctation repair with a curved patch, which may decrease the risk of recurrent coarctation by minimizing kinks and anastomotic torsion.
March 10, 2021
STAT Mortality Categories (developed 2009) stratify congenital heart surgery procedures into groups of increasing mortality risk to characterize case mix of congenital heart surgery providers. This update of the STAT Mortality Score and Categories is empirically based for all procedures and reflects contemporary outcomes.
February 21, 2021
In this article, Han et al examined the characteristics of aspiring cardiothoracic surgeons recruited from a pool of students interested in matriculating from a North American training program.
February 12, 2021
This video demonstrates the neonatal closure of apical ventricular septal defect through a lower ministernotomy.
January 29, 2021
This video demonstrates subaortic stenosis resection via a right axillary minithoracotomy in a 6-year-old boy with ventricular outflow tract obstruction by subaortic fibrous membrane with a peak gradient of 76 mm Hg and mild aortic valve regurgitation.
January 21, 2021
This video demonstrates a very rare case of the repair of an aortic graft aneurysm for a patient postaorto-aortic bypass for an interrupted aortic arch.
January 13, 2021
A large series of closure of atrial septal defects ( mostly secundum) in adult and some adolescent patients. There are token cases of other (moderate to severe) congenital cases included in this narrative. The Onans offer details on the evolution of their Da Vinci program in Istanbul.