Alan ODonnell
The authors present a case of a neoaortic valve repair with a HAART ring in a twenty-seven-year-old patient born with transposition of great arteries who underwent an arterial switch operation as a neonate. Indication for...
To begin, a standard median sternotomy was performed and both pleural spaces are widely opened. The anterior diaphragmatic attachments at the pericardium were taken down. The phrenic nerve was identified...
While complete atrioventricular septal defect covers a wide spectrum of malformations and pathophysiologies, there are several phenotypic features common in all of them. The phenotypic features are the commonality of...
First, note that there are many accepted strategies for wound closure. The technique will vary based on the weight of the patient and complexity of the wound. Regardless of the...
In this video, the patient is a six-month-old, 6.4 kg infant with a new diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy. The patient was at home and presented at the hospital in extremis....
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with physician’s assistant Alan ODonnell about his process for filming and editing exceptional cardiothoracic surgical videos. In addition, Joel...
This video presents the case of the third redo slide tracheoplasty and esophagoplasty following a button battery ingestion in a previously healthy fifteen-month-old child. The patient presented to the emergency...
The technique in this video demonstrates how to implant a leaflet apparatus into any conduit type. This includes conduits not previously demonstrated, such as ring-reinforced ePTFE and sinus of Valsalva...
The following videos are a posthumous tribute to Dr. James Tweddell to demonstrate and share his innumerable contributions to the field of congenital heart surgery. This video is part of...
As most know, Dr. James Tweddell lost his battle with cancer on July 1, 2022. This has been—without equivocation—a colossal loss for the congenital heart surgery community. In an ongoing...
The patient was a six-month-old, 7.6 kg male with an antenatal diagnosis of dexto-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA), large perimembranous ventricular septal defect (VSD) with outlet extension, a bicuspid...
This operative technique video demonstrates an anatomic repair of congenitally corrected transposition (ccTGA) with ventricular septal defect (VSD), pulmonary atresia (PS), and mild right ventricular hypoplasia in a two-year-old who...
This video demonstrates Dr. James Tweddell’s surgical strategy in a two-month-old male with diagnosis of aortic atresia, hypoplastic aortic arch, coarctation, large perimembranous VSD, mildly hypoplastic mitral valve, normal biventricular...









