Sameh Said
The patient was a 2-month-old, 4.5 kg infant with heart failure symptoms and severe pulmonary hypertension who was diagnosed with multiple apical ventricular septal defects (VSDs). He was placed on home oxygen and Sildenafil in...
This interview centers around improving and evaluating surgical programs. At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor—Congenital, Dr. Sameh Said, Chief of the Division...
A 35-year-old woman, who had undergone an aortic valve replacement (AVR) with a 19 mm mechanical prosthesis nine years prior presented with exertional fatigue and shortness of breath despite a...
At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet Senior Editor—Congenital, Dr. Sameh Said, Chief of the Division of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery at Maria...
In this in-depth discussion, CTSNet Senior Editors Dr. Vince Gaudiani, Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford University in Stanford, California, USA, and Dr. Sameh Said, Chief of the Division...
In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning is joined by new senior editor of congenital content, Dr. Sameh Said. Together, they run through the latest,...
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...
Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital heart defect that occurs in one to three out of every hundred thousand births. Congenital pulmonary venolobar syndrome and vena cava bronchovascular syndrome are...
This patient is an eight-week-old, 4.6 kg infant who was diagnosed postnatally with cor triatriatum dexter and a patent foramen ovale. A follow-up was recommended at that time, as she...
The patient is an eleven-year-old, 38.8 kg boy who was diagnosed with partial atrioventricular septal defect and has been followed clinically with minimal symptoms. Past medical and surgical history included...
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...
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)...
When Dr. Sameh Said came to the United States in 2005 for an advanced cardiovascular surgical fellowship at Mayo Clinic, he expected to return to his home country of Egypt,...










