Congenital

Podcast
May 14, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Brad Leshnower, Director of Aortic Surgery at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA, USA, about the first implantation of the Gore Ascending Stent...

Video
April 27, 2023 | Alan ODonnellBronze Contributor

The following videos are a posthumous tribute to Dr. James Tweddell to demonstrate and share his innumerable contributions to the field of congenital heart surgery. This video is part of...

Podcast
April 20, 2023 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

In 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 CT surgery information—and...

JANS Article
March 28, 2023 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

In a study meant to review outcomes in patients less than 5 kg supported by the Berlin Heart pulsatile ventricular assist device (VAD), it was found that the device is...

JANS Article
March 10, 2023 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

This study reviewed records to establish how primary complete repair of pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect (PA-VSD) compares with staged repair. It was found that the survival rates of...

JANS Article
March 2, 2023 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

Neointimal hyperplasia may affect systemic-to-pulmonary shunt failure in this group of infants. The histopathology of removed shunts was analyzed. Neointimal hyperplasia and shunt stenosis were correlated and significantly greater in...

Video
March 2, 2023 | Ali MashadiSilver Contributor

Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital heart defect that occurs in one to three out of every hundred thousand births. Congenital pulmonary venolobar syndrome and vena cava bronchovascular syndrome are...