Congenital
Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) remains an important palliative strategy in selected congenital cardiac patients. Traditionally, it is performed through a median sternotomy, which provides excellent exposure but may increase surgical trauma and complicate later reentry....
In this episode of the CTSNet podcast, The Lifeline, host and nurse educator Jill Ley, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, Founder of the...
Aortic uncrossing is indicated for symptomatic patients with a circumflex aorta causing significant tracheoesophageal compression. Case presentation The authors present a two-year-old child (12.4 kg) with dysphagia who was diagnosed...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jacques Kpodonu, a cardiac surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Assistant Professor of Surgery...
A 16-year-old male presented with shortness of breath and exertional fatigue. He had a history of repeat hospitalization due to acute episodes of suspected pulmonary edema. He had previously undergone...
This video demonstrates a case of Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), and after clearing the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) and closing the ventricular septal defect (VSD) from the right atrium,...
In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Amanda Rea, a nurse practitioner and Lead of Advanced Practice and Clinical Program Manager in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Zain Khalpey, an assistant attending surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NY, USA, adjunct assistant professor of...
The Warden procedure (1) has been performed for partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection in which the right upper pulmonary vein (RUPV) drains into the superior vena cava (SVC). This involves...
In this inspiring interview, Cristina Ruiz Segria, CTSNet Senior Editor—Clinical Care Providers and nurse practitioner at James Cook University Hospital, UK, speaks with Dr. Ben Youdelman, Director of Thoracic Aortic...
This video demonstrates the key surgical steps of transdiaphragmatic aorto-supra-celiac aortic extra-anatomic bypass. The case involved a 16-year-old boy who presented with shortness of breath on exertion. Echocardiography revealed type...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Adam Greenbaum, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory School of Medicine and Co-director of the Emory Structural...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Sameer Hirji, an associate surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, USA, about a paper he...










