Congenital

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Minimally Invasive Left Atrial Myxoma Resection

March 13, 2026 | Sviatoslav Flinta…

This video is part of CTSNet’s 2025 Resident Video Competition. Watch all entries into the competition, including the winning videos. The authors present a case of a minimally invasive left atrial myxoma resection performed via...

Podcast

The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 170: 2026 Expert Consensus on the Multimodal Treatment of Pleural Mesothelioma

August 20, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

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...

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Off-Pump Extracardiac Completion Fontan

August 18, 2026 | Sameh SaidGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

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...

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Establishing a Sustainable Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Program in Guyana: An Interview With Rebekah Boyd

August 14, 2026 | Rebekah Boyd…

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,...

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CSIA Conference and Global Cardiothoracic Surgery: An Interview With Emily Farkas

August 13, 2026 | Emily FarkasBronze Contributor…

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...

JANS Article

How Israeli Doctors Treated a Patient Whose Faith Forbids Receiving Blood Transfusion

October 13, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

A patient from Rwanda, who traveled to a medical center in Israel to undergo an operation for the congenital disease Tetralogy of Fallot, was not able to accept transfusions of...

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Minimally Invasive Pediatric Closure of Atrial Septal Defect via Right Axillary Thoracotomy

October 6, 2022 | David Meyer…

This video shows the authors’ technique of minimally invasive atrial septal defect (ASD) closure in children, including tips for easy exposure and description of potential pitfalls. Disclaimer The information and...

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What to Expect: EACTS 2022

October 4, 2022 | John Janesheski…

In anticipation of the 36th Annual European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS) Meeting, CTSNet met with two representatives of the association. Dr. Rafael Sádaba Sagredo, secretary general and chair of...

Article

CTSNet’s 10 Most Popular Articles of September 2022

September 30, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

September’s top content includes a few of our specialty roundups, a video from Diego Gonzalez Rivas on his groundbreaking uniportal robotic technique, and many more helpful articles. 1. Book Review:...

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The Commando Revisited in Adolescent with Severe Aortic and Mitral Valve Stenosis

September 27, 2022 | Sameh SaidGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

The patient, now a fifteen-year-old boy, was born with multivalvular disease with congenitally stenotic bicuspid aortic valve (AV). This was combined with congenital mitral valve (MV) stenosis and Ebsteinoid...

Article

In Memoriam: James S. Tweddell (1959 to 2022)

September 16, 2022 | Michael Mitchell

Dr. James S. Tweddell was a thoughtful and technically outstanding congenital heart surgeon and an internationally renowned leader, innovator, teacher, and friend. He passed away at the young age of...

JANS Article

Duke Health Performs World’s First Partial Heart Transplant

September 8, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

According to Duke University Health, a team of its surgeons has completed the first partial heart transplant, with living arteries and valves from a donated heart fused onto the heart...

JANS Article

Reevaluating Congenital Heart Surgery Center Performance Using Operative Mortality

September 2, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

In order to best estimate observed-to-expected operative mortality ratios for more than 100 congenital heart centers in North America, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons compared their current approach to approaches...

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