Congenital
A 3-week-old, 2.6-kg infant with d-transposition of the great arteries and an intact ventricular septum had an abnormal left coronary artery (LCA) originating from the left-facing sinus with ostial stenosis and an intramural retro-commissural course....
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...
The Pediatric Cardiac Care Consortium was queried for patients undergoing repair of conotruncal abnormalities and subsequent AVR 1982 – 2003. Of 106 patients undergoing AVR, the operative mortality was 12%,...
A paper that addresses a gap in knowledge and will guide future research: of particular interest, the penultimate paragraph on The Role of Interventions.
...Anomalous aortic origin of the left coronary artery (AAOLCA) from the right coronary sinus is a rare condition. However, this disease process is clinically important because it carries an increased...
The patient was a fourteen-month-old infant who was born at term with an antenatal diagnosis of congenital pulmonary airway malformation. The infant was otherwise healthy and never had any episode...
This operative technique video demonstrates an anatomic repair of congenitally corrected transposition (ccTGA) with ventricular septal defect (VSD), pulmonary atresia (PS), and mild right ventricular hypoplasia in a two-year-old who...
This is a retrospective study that was performed in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Subspecialty Hospital – Medical City (Baghdad) from January 1, 2017 to December 21, 2020....
A two-week-old, 3.5 kg newborn presented with tachypnea and a heart murmur. An echocardiogram showed a type I aortopulmonary window and patent foramen ovale. A computed tomography scan confirmed the...
A sixty-two-year-old female with a history of chronic cough and exercise intolerance initially presented for elective calcium scoring via cardiac CT. The scan showed previously undiagnosed anomalous pulmonary venous return...










