Congenital
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Zain Khalpey, an assistant attending surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NY, USA, adjunct assistant professor of surgery at Columbia University Irving...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As this article and video demonstrate, the superior approach for repair of supracardiac TAPVC carries several advantages, including minimal-to-no heart manipulation, ease of accessibility through the transverse pericardial sinus, and...
CTSNet is marking the end of year by showcasing our top-performing content from 2021. Read on for more on everything from our most popular webinar to our most prolific contributor—and...
The year is coming to a close. To honor and celebrate the last twelve months of hard work from the CTSNet community, we’ve pulled together a list of the ten...
Mitral valve replacement using the top-hat technique can be an option in patients with small mitral annulus or patients with patient-prosthesis mismatch. This technique can provide adequate left ventricle in-flow...
A thirty-year-old male was admitted for decompensated heart failure. He had a history of a hole in the heart during childhood. The echocardiography on admission showed left ventricular function, an...










