According to Duke University Health, a team of its surgeons has completed the first partial heart transplant, with living arteries and valves from a donated heart fused onto the heart of the existing newborn patient.
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Miscellaneous congenital procedures
April 20, 2022
Operating on newborns can be stressful and difficult. This clinical video demonstrates the technique of transapical resection of a left ventricular rhabdomyoma in a one-day old neonate.
April 12, 2022
Alagille syndrome and liver dysfunction can be tricky for surgeons to deal with. This video shows a fifteen-month-old patient who underwent extensive bilateral branch pulmonary arterioplasties to relieve her suprasystemic right ventricular pressure.
April 6, 2022
This video is focused on myocardial bridging that may occur in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
September 21, 2021
The authors demonstrate a double valve replacement with tricuspid annuloplasty in a patient with dextrocardia due to rheumatic heart disease.
September 14, 2021
This video illustrates a surgical correction of ruptured sinus of valsalva aneurysm from a rudimentay coronary sinus (between the right and non coronary cusps) to the right atrium.
July 13, 2021
This is a report and video of a successful slide tracheobronchoplasty for right mainstem bronchial agenesis.
July 5, 2021
This a 15-month-old girl who under went asymptomatic vascular ring repair that was diagnosed prenatally.
March 12, 2021
Right ventricle to pulmonary artery conduit offers simple and reliable palliation in patients with PDA-dependent circulation with reassuring early operative course.
February 25, 2021
The authors present a video case report of the surgical repair of an iatrogenic right outflow tract pseudoaneurysm in an ex-premature.