Mina Estafanos

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Homograft Surgery for Infective Endocarditis

July 17, 2025 | Hossein Amirjamshidi…

This video submission is from the 2025 CTSNet Instructional Video Competition. Watch all entries from the competition, including the winning videos. Preoperative Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE) Pre-procedure intraoperative TEE revealed left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of...

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Off-Pump Right Bidirectional Glenn Combined With a Left Kawashima for a Functional Single Ventricle

July 9, 2024 | Mina Estafanos…

This is a three-year-old girl with cyanosis and clubbing. She was born with a double outlet right ventricle and a complete atrioventricular septal defect with a straddling left atrioventricular valve....

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Challenging Pulmonary Arterial Reconstruction in an Adult

June 10, 2024 | Amir Rose…

The patient is a twenty-year-old female who was born with congenital bilateral branch pulmonary arteries hypoplasia and severe stenosis. She developed suprasystemic right ventricular pressure and underwent transcatheter balloon dilation...

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Anatomic Correction of the Syndrome of Aortic Valve Cusp Prolapse and Subaortic VSD via Vertical Right Axillary Thoracotomy

June 4, 2024 | Mina Estafanos…

A seven-month-old, 8.5 kg infant was followed clinically for a large ventricular septal defect (VSD) until an echocardiographic evaluation raised concerns regarding aortic valve (AV) regurgitation secondary to a new...

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Simplified Running Suture Technique for Allograft Implantation in Cases of Aortic Root Abscess

May 6, 2024 | Michael Javorski…

To simplify allograft implantation, especially in a case like this where the normal aortic root anatomy was disrupted by the infection and when debridement was carried down to the LVOT...

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Repair of a Large Posterior Left Ventricular PSA Involving the Mitral Apparatus

January 9, 2024 | Anthony Zaki…

A sixty-two-year-old former smoker with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented to the authors’ institution with multiple recent embolic strokes and worsening heart failure symptoms. Careful diagnostic evaluation revealed a large...

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Off-Pump Kawashima Procedure in a 10-Month-Old Infant with Heterotaxy

August 17, 2023 | Mina Estafanos…

A ten-month-old, 9.4 kg infant with heterotaxy syndrome presented with cyanosis. The cardiac diagnosis was a double outlet right ventricle with complete atrioventricular septal defect and multilevel right ventricular outflow...

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Challenging Pulmonary Arterial Reconstruction: Off-Pump Reconstruction of the Right Pulmonary Artery in an Infant

August 2, 2023 | Mina Estafanos…

The patient was a nine-month-old, 8.8 kg infant who was born with anomalous origin of the right pulmonary artery (RPA) from the ascending aorta. She underwent an initial median sternotomy...

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Redo Sternotomy with David VI Valve-Sparing Aortic Root Replacement in an 18-Year-Old

July 17, 2023 | Mina Estafanos…

The patient is an eighteen-year-old who underwent previous sternotomy for closure of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect and resection of subaortic membrane and presented with progressive aortic root dilation. He...

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Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery (ALCAPA): Repair by Translocation

May 11, 2023 | Mina Estafanos…

A three-week-old, 2.5 kg neonate who presented with heart failure symptoms and a systolic murmur was found to have anomalous origin of the left main coronary artery from the pulmonary...

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Cone Repair for Ebstein’s Anomaly in a Ten-Year-Old Girl

December 20, 2022 | Sameh SaidGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

The patient was a ten-year-old, 43.3 kg girl who had a well-known diagnosis of Ebstein’s anomaly and underwent a previous electrophysiologic study with catheter ablation of an accessory conduction pathway...

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One-Stage Relief of Aortic Coarctation with Mitral Valve Replacement via Median Sternotomy

November 24, 2022 | Mina Estafanos…

This video shows a sixteen-year-old male patient who underwent two previous sternotomies for repair of a complete atrioventricular septal defect, followed by re-repair of the left atrioventricular valve (mitral valve)...

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Interdigitating Technique for Repair of Aortic Coarctation and Arch Hypoplasia in a Neonate

November 8, 2022 | Sameh SaidGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

The patient was a two-day-old, 3.6 kilogram neonate who was diagnosed prenatally with aortic coarctation. After birth, a prostaglandins infusion was initiated, and a transthoracic echocardiogram showed critical aortic...

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