Congenital
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 Heart and Valve Center, Atlanta,...
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...
In this episode of CTSNet’s flagship podcast, editor in chief Joel Dunning runs through the latest, most popular content on ctsnet.org—the largest online community of CT surgeons and source of...
The patient is an eighteen-year-old who underwent previous sternotomy for closure of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect and resection of subaortic membrane and presented with progressive aortic root dilation. He...
The Côte d’Ivoire Health Ministry has announced a local capacity building initiative to establish the country’s local congenital cardiac surgery capabilities and enable Côte d’Ivoire to become a model for...
The patient is a two-and-a-half-year-old child with d-TGA/VSD/PS who underwent aortic translocation. The patient’s anatomy was typical of d-transposition with VSD and PS. Both coronaries were favorable in that they...
This specialist review of congenital aortic root anatomy provides a detailed framework for evaluating and treating pediatric and adult patients across the whole spectrum of congenital aortic root pathology.
...This video presents a case of primary sutureless repair of obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) in a neonate. The patient is a full-term, 3.1 kg male neonate who...
This video presents a case of concomitant Ravitch repair and mitral valve repair in a thirteen-year-old patient with Marfan syndrome. The Patient The patient was born prematurely at twenty-five weeks....
This analysis of 279 neonates with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum who underwent surgical or catheter intervention between 2009 and 2019 in nineteen centers showed that seventy-nine (28 percent)...










