This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Alexis Shafii, professor of surgery and surgical director of heart transplantation at The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, about the first in-human BiVACOR total artificial heart implantation.
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September 18, 2025
September 18, 2025
This manuscript reports a pregnant patient who developed thrombosis of her mechanical pulmonary valve, necessitating re-replacement of the valve and the trunk.
September 18, 2025
This video demonstrates a case report of a modified Bex-Nikaidoh operation in a neonate with dextro-transportation of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary stenosis.
September 16, 2025
This video demonstrates an innovative solution that has the potential to improve the survival of neonates and increase the likelihood of completing their palliative staged surgeries, presenting the first successful ex-utero intrapartum treatment-to-open atrial septectomy in a neonate with hypoplastic left heart syndrome with an intact atrial septum.
September 16, 2025
This video demonstrates two cases in which incision of the moderator band, though controversial, was necessary to adequately relieve right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
September 15, 2025
This video demonstrates a modified Yasui performed under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest for interrupted aortic arch type B with posterior malaligned ventricular septal defects.
September 11, 2025
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Adanna Akujuo, a cardiothoracic surgeon and the surgical director of the Structural Heart Program at UVA Health University Medical Center, about the Voom Foundation and its trips to Africa.
September 11, 2025
This video demonstrates the application of minimally invasive cardiac surgery in patients with tetralogy of Fallot requiring multiple intracardiac repairs.
September 11, 2025
This article explores emerging innovations aimed at addressing the critical challenges of organ transplantation, particularly organ scarcity, rejection, and the burden of lifelong immunosuppression.
September 10, 2025
This video demonstrates the challenges of distant inferior vena cava cannulation at the third intercostal space and the potential for accidental dislodgment.