The authors report on their experience with three-demensional (3D) printed heart models in congenital cardiac surgery, having printed 20 3D models for preoperative simulation within the last three years. All operations were performed by a young consultant surgeon.
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July 20, 2018
July 19, 2018
The authors demonstrate a fourth-time redo sternotomy for an eight-year-old girl who had prior repair of an atrioventricular septal defect.
July 13, 2018
Buratto and colleagues retrospectively analyzed the outcomes of 68 patients with atrioventricular septal defects (AVSD) who underwent pulmonary artery banding between 1983 and 2016. Of these, 40 patients had balanced AVSD and 28 patients had unbalanced AVSD.
July 11, 2018
Papageorgiou and colleagues discuss dealing with missing data, a common challenge in clinical research.
July 9, 2018
This video demonstrates a surgical repair of a right coronary artery to right ventricle fistula in a young child.
July 3, 2018
Joseph Dearani, Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, graciously shares a copy of the letter with which he welcomes cardiothoracic surgery residents as they embark on their rotation on his service.
June 26, 2018
Sample size calculations are a necessary prerequisite in the design of clinical studies. Most often, they are encountered in randomized controlled trials. Hickey and colleagues describe the reasoning behind determinations of sample size and illustrate some basic calculations.
June 21, 2018
The authors demonstrate the successful repair of transposition of the great arteries with an associated aortopulmonary window in a neonate.
June 20, 2018
Chen and colleagues present their experience closing ventricular septal defects with a device using a minimally invasive surgical approach that does not require cardiopulmonary bypass. This approach relies on transthoracic echocardiography for device guidance and was substantially cheaper than transcatheter approaches.
June 18, 2018
The author reflects on a report of a baby with hypoplastic left heart syndrome in whom both of the coronary arteries arose from the pulmonary trunk.