Congenital
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Enoch Akowuah, an academic consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Newcastle University and South Tees NHS Foundation Trust, UK, and Dr. Matthias Raschpichler, a cardiac...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jeffrey Velotta, Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine in San...
A five-year-old girl, weighing 15.8 kg, with a functional single ventricle (hypoplastic left heart syndrome secondary to aortic and mitral valvular atresia), was referred for a completion Fontan procedure. Her...
This interview focuses on establishing a sustainable pediatric cardiac surgical program in Georgetown, Guyana. At the 2026 American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Annual Meeting, CTSNet JANS Editor Ali Mashadi,...
In this insightful interview, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning speaks with CTSNet Senior Editor—Global Emily Farkas, Associate Director of Global Health in Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine, about...
At the 2024 AATS Annual Meeting, CTSNet senior editors set out to interview the most knowledgeable CT surgeons from around the world. Stay tuned for more interviews from the meeting....
This is a three-year-old girl with cyanosis and clubbing. She was born with a double outlet right ventricle and a complete atrioventricular septal defect with a straddling left atrioventricular valve....
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning speaks with Dr. Albert Jauregui Abularach about his work as a pioneer in robotic lung transplantation. Joel also talks about...
This week on The Beat, Editor in Chief Joel Dunning discusses the recently published MARS 2 trial, an AATS consensus document on management of subsolid lung nodules, and the long-term...
In this video, the patient is a six-month-old, 6.4 kg infant with a new diagnosis of dilated cardiomyopathy. The patient was at home and presented at the hospital in extremis....
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. Joel also talks...
This video shows surgical repair of pentalogy of Fallot in a thirteen-year-old boy. A team of British surgeons assisted the team at the National Cardiothoracic Centre in Accra, Ghana with...
The patient is a thirty-year-old woman who underwent an aortic valve replacement in 2021, aortic prosthesis and mitral valve replacement in 2022 for endocarditis, and a redo operation for dysfunction/dehiscence...









