This is a technique video demonstrating how Dr. David Lehenbauer performs a heart transplant in a pediatric patient with dilated cardiomyopathy.
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Congenital
June 21, 2024
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning discusses a new cardiothoracic surgery conference in Iraq and his insights on the newest surgical robot technology.
June 19, 2024
This video shows surgical repair of pentalogy of Fallot in a thirteen-year-old boy.
June 18, 2024
This video presents the case of a thirty-year-old woman who underwent a commando procedure to treat bacterial endocarditis.
June 10, 2024
The authors demonstrate pulmonary arterial branch reconstruction via median sternotomy in a twenty-year-old patient who underwent previous transcatheter multiple stents and balloon dilation of her pulmonary arteries but had persistent suprasystemic right ventricular pressure.
June 7, 2024
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning interviews Prof. Dawn Jaroszewski. They discuss the latest techniques in pectus excavatum surgery and Prof. Jaroszewski’s recommendations for safe pectus guidelines. She goes on to demonstrate some of her techniques on a chest cavity simulator.
June 4, 2024
This video presents the case of a seven-month-old boy with large subaortic ventricular septal defect (VSD) and a moderate degree of aortic valve (AV) regurgitation due to aortic valve cusp prolapse who underwent repair via a vertical right axillary thoracotomy (VRAT).
May 30, 2024
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning interviews Dr. Vince Gaudiani. They discuss his recent video series on CTSNet demonstrating techniques for cerebral protection in cardiac surgery.
May 29, 2024
The 2024 James S. Tweddell Memorial Paper for Congenital Cardiac Surgery compared mortality of 25,749 congenital surgery operations performed at 235 hospitals between 2016 and 2019, identified in the Kid’s Inpatient Database (KID).