Congenital

Podcast

The Cardiac Recovery Room: Early Mobility, Verticalization, and Delirium, Oh My!

April 15, 2026 | Amanda Rea

In this episode of The Cardiac Recovery Room, moderator Amanda Rea, a nurse practitioner and Lead of Advanced Practice and Clinical Program Manager in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland St....

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 173: Uniportal Robotics in the UAE

September 10, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Taj Mohammed Fiyaz Chowdhry, a consultant thoracic surgeon at Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, about uniportal robotics in the...

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The Lifeline: Postoperative Pearls in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease, Part 1

September 9, 2026 | Jill LeySilver Contributor…

In this episode of the CTSNet podcast, The Lifeline, host and nurse educator Jill Ley, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, Founder of the...

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Aortic Uncrossing Procedure for Circumflex Aorta

September 7, 2026 | Zineb El Hasnaoui…

Aortic uncrossing is indicated for symptomatic patients with a circumflex aorta causing significant tracheoesophageal compression. Case presentation The authors present a two-year-old child (12.4 kg) with dysphagia who was diagnosed...

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The Beat With Joel Dunning Ep. 172: Intraoperative AI Copilot in Robotic Cardiac Surgery

September 4, 2026 | Joel DunningGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Jacques Kpodonu, a cardiac surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Assistant Professor of Surgery...

JANS Article

COVID-19 FAQs in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: 2022 Perspective and Updates

March 29, 2022 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

This timely article addresses the interface between the Covid pandemic and patients with congenital heart diseases. It offers responses to a variety of questions related to: vaccinations, passive immunization, Covid...

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Operative Repair of Aortic Dissection with an Entry Tear on the Lesser Curve of the Arch

March 29, 2022 | Charles Roberts

After more than six hours in an emergency department, a seventy-one-year-old male was diagnosed with acute aortic dissection. He was transported by helicopter and taken directly to the operating room...

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Fourth Sternotomy with Reinforced Ross Procedure

March 22, 2022 | Sameh SaidGold ContributorSilver Commentor…

A twenty-year-old woman presented with a severe left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction secondary to prosthetic aortic valve dysfunction. She was born with a bicuspid aortic valve and had undergone...

JANS Article

Outcomes Following Aortic Valve Replacement in Children With Conotruncal Anomalies

March 7, 2022 | Mark FergusonBronze Contributor

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%,...

JANS Article

Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease

March 4, 2022 | Aristotle ProtopapasGold Commentor

A paper that addresses a gap in knowledge and will guide future research: of particular interest, the penultimate paragraph on The Role of Interventions.

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Transconal Unroofing of Anomalous Left Main Coronary Artery from Right Sinus With Transseptal Course

January 27, 2022 | Nicholas Oh…

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...

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VATS Lobectomy for Fourteen-Month-Old Infant

January 24, 2022 | Lu Wang…

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...

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Anatomic Repair of Congenitally Corrected Transposition: 1.5V Repair with Hemi-Mustard and Rastelli Procedures

January 12, 2022 | James Tweddell…

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...

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