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The Battle of the Shunts: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cryopreserved and Antibiotic-Preserved Saphenous Vein Homografts Versus Polytetrafluoroethylene Grafts for Systemic-to-Pulmonary Artery Shunts in Pediatric Patients

August 27, 2026 | Ahmed Wahba

This study compared two types of conduits used for systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts in children with congenital heart disease: synthetic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) grafts and biological saphenous vein homografts (SVH). Across 16 studies including 684 patients, SVH...

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Surgical Repair of Mixed Supracardiac Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection

August 31, 2026 | Zineb El Hasnaoui…

The surgical technique used in this video is suitable for patients with mixed supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) in whom the right and left pulmonary venous systems drain...

JANS Article

The Battle of the Shunts: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cryopreserved and Antibiotic-Preserved Saphenous Vein Homografts Versus Polytetrafluoroethylene Grafts for Systemic-to-Pulmonary Artery Shunts in Pediatric Patients

August 27, 2026 | Ahmed Wahba

This study compared two types of conduits used for systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts in children with congenital heart disease: synthetic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) grafts and biological saphenous vein homografts (SVH). Across 16...

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Novel Size-Adjustable Pulmonary Valve US Early Feasibility Study: One-Year Outcomes

August 27, 2026 | Vincent SierGold Contributor

This US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved prospective, single-arm, multicenter early feasibility study evaluated the Autus Size-Adjustable Valve (ASAV), a surgically implanted, fully synthetic, balloon-expandable pulmonary valve for children requiring...

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Tetralogy of Fallot With Absent Pulmonary Valve: Repair by Anterior Translocation of Branch Pulmonary Arteries and Reduction Plasty

April 16, 2024 | Debasis Das…

Tetralogy of Fallot with an absent pulmonary valve is physiologically distinctive from other forms of TOF due to tracheobronchial compression resulting from massive dilatation of the main pulmonary artery and...

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Reasons for Failure of Systemic-to-Pulmonary Artery Shunts in Neonates

January 31, 2019 | Claire Vernon

Vitanova and colleagues reviewed outcomes of systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt surgery to identify potential risk factors for negative outcomes in neonates. Between 2000 and 2016, 305 shunts were implanted in 280...

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Long-Term Survival After Arterial Versus Atrial Switch in d-Transposition of the Great Arteries

January 2, 2019 | Claire Vernon

Kiener and colleagues evaluated survival for patients receiving either an arterial or atrial switch operation for d-transposition of the great arteries. The authors evaluated operation data from the Pediatric Cardiac...

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Patients With Systemic Right Ventricle Are at Higher Risk of Chylothorax After Cavopulmonary Connections

November 20, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Soquet and colleagues reviewed records from 289 pediatric patients who underwent 376 cavopulmonary connection (CPC) procedures to determine the incidence and associated complications of chylothorax following these procedures. The authors...

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Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery: Professor Martin Elliott

September 27, 2018 | Shruti JayakumarBronze Contributor…

In this interview, Shruti Jayakumar of King’s College London School of Medicine in the UK and Martin Elliott of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, UK, discuss...

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Expanding the Limits of Posterior Aortic Translocation

September 11, 2018 | Viktor Hraska…

Currently the posterior translocation of the aorta, the Nikaidoh procedure, is utilized in: complete transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) with ventricular septal defect (VSD) and left ventricular outflow tract...

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Half-Turned Truncal Switch Operation for Transposition of the Great Arteries With Left Ventricular Outflow Obstruction

September 10, 2018 | Masaaki Yamagishi

The half-turned truncal switch operation is suitable for transposition of the great arteries (TGA) or TGA-type double outlet right ventricle (DORV) with left ventricular outflow obstruction, anteroposterior relationship of the...

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En Bloc Rotation of the Outflow Tracts: An Option for Anatomic Repair of Complex Transposition

September 5, 2018 | Rudolf Mair…

En bloc rotation of the outflow tracts offers a complete anatomic repair of complex transposition of the great arteries, with growth potential in all tubular structures and the option of...

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Letter From the Guest Editor: Advances in Surgical Treatment of Complex Conotruncal Malformations

September 5, 2018 | Viktor Hraska

For CTSNet’s first Congenital Guest Editor Series, Advances in Surgical Treatment of Complex Conotruncal Malformations, we asked Dr Viktor Hraska of the Herma Heart Center at the Medical College of...

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