Congenital

Podcast
April 29, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Zhi Lin, Chief Director of Cardiovascular Surgery Division 1 at Xiamen Cardiovascular Hospital of Xiamen University in Xiamen, China, and Dr. Oscar A....

JANS Article
October 21, 2022 | Cameron LindSilver Contributor

An infant born prematurely with a double-outlet right ventricle became the youngest ever patient to undergo a ventricular switch procedure. In this rare case, the ventricular septal defect was remote,...

Video
October 18, 2022 | Ahmad Ali AmirghofranBronze ContributorBronze Commentor

Preventing chronic pulmonary insufficiency (PI) is a huge challenge in Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair. Right ventricular dysfunction and arrhythmias secondary to chronic pulmonary insufficiency (PI) are the major causes...

Video
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...

Video
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
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:...

Video
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
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...