Congenital
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Dr. Niv Ad, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery and professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University...
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...
In this study by Olive et al, they demonstrate the demographic landscape of current cardiothoracic surgeons and trainees in terms of sex and race/ethnicity, and demonstrate improvement in diversity of...
In this article, Loo et al demonstrate in a survey to the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association membership that only approximately 20% of trainees were accurate in estimating surgeon reimbursement, with...
Endocarditis in premature infants without congenital heart disease is exceedingly rare. We describe a case of a premature infant who required surgical intervention for tricuspid endocarditis. The patient was a...
This presentation covers some of the recent advances in pediatric perfusion and lists out the recent studies that have been done. It covers the major topics of target hemoglobin, miniaturization,...
A 7-year-old, 41 kg, female presented with murmur and evidence of right-sided cardiac chamber enlargement. She was asymptomatic. Echocardiography and cross-sectional imaging demonstrated partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection of the...
Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) is gaining worldwide acceptance as an adjunct to brain death (BD) in transplant surgery. Initially performed for abdominal organs procurement, DCD was then carried out...
A 29-year-old man was found to have right bundle branch block in ECG during regular health check-up and was diagnosed with SVC type of sinus venosus ASD with PAPVC of...
Purpose: The incidence of long-term Fontan complications have led some centers to reevaluate their “functionally single ventricle” patients for different surgical strategies. [1] Other centers have described their short-term outcomes...






