Alan ODonnell

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July 23, 2024 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor

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...

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July 17, 2024 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor

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...

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July 11, 2024 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor

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...

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July 2, 2024 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor

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...

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April 11, 2024 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor

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...

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April 27, 2023 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor

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...

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August 25, 2022 | James Tweddell

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...

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April 27, 2022 | James Tweddell

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...

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January 12, 2022 | James Tweddell

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...

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December 2, 2021 | James Tweddell

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...