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Congenital

September 8, 2022
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.
September 2, 2022
In order to best estimate observed-to-expected operative mortality ratios for more than 100 congenital heart centers in North America, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons compared their current approach to approaches that incorporate information on diagnoses as moderators of procedures, other unused risk factors, and additional variation in confidence i
August 27, 2022
The decisions that medical students make regarding their career paths have a direct effect on the future medical workforce of a country. Their choice of specialty determines the distribution of their country’s medical workforce among different specialties and its ability to deliver specialized healthcare services.
August 27, 2022
Although the demand for heart surgeons trained in a year is twenty, Kenya produces only four to five annually. This results in a gap in diagnosis and treatment of heart illnesses.
August 27, 2022
Most surgeons practice in high income countries, even though the majority of the world’s population lives in low- or middle-income countries. There is a significant disparity between high-income and low-income countries in the number of both cardiac and pediatric cardiac surgeons.
August 25, 2022
This is a surgical technique video of Dr. James Tweddell’s operative management of a patient with simple transposition.
August 12, 2022
Many congenital heart diseases are tied to genetic defects and can lead to heart failure that requires heart transplant. This paper outlines the outcomes of transplants performed in children with such genetic syndromes and disorders and finds that, despite more preoperative comorbidities, midterm outcomes after heart transplant are promising.
July 20, 2022
A year ago, a twelve-year-old girl became the youngest person in Canada undergo surgery to receive a total artificial heart. The device, which can essentially replace an entire human heart for a limited period of time, has only been used fifty-eight times in Canada to date.
July 15, 2022
In this article, Sinha et al performed a cross-sectional survey evaluating gender-related differences in congenital heart surgeon practice. They found that there were significant differences in the rate of discouragement for women to pursue a career in congenital heart surgery, as well as lower starting salaries and ranks. 

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