Congenital - Cyanotic

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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 pulmonary valve replacement. The biomimetic...

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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...

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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...

JANS Article

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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In Global News: Subspecializing for CABG, the Australian Transplant Games, and CHD Screening in China

August 10, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care and General Interest A New Zealand woman with cystic fibrosis who is a lung transplant recipient prepares to compete in swimming, biking, and running events in the Australian...

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Long-Term Outcome After Pulmonary Artery Banding in Children With Atrioventricular Septal Defects

July 13, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Buratto and colleagues retrospectively analyzed the outcomes of 68 patients with atrioventricular septal defects (AVSD) who underwent pulmonary artery banding between 1983 and 2016. Of these, 40 patients had balanced...

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In Global News: UN Award Recognizes Pediatric Heart Surgery, Anthropologists Evaluate OR Cooperation, and Nitric Oxide for AKI

July 6, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Patient Care and General Interest The Israeli nonprofit organization Save a Child’s Heart received the United Nations’ Population Award, in recognition of its work providing congenital cardiac surgery to children...

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Transposition of the Great Arteries With Intact Ventricular Septum and Type 1 Aortopulmonary Window

June 21, 2018 | Ziyad Binsalamah…

Objectives Aortopulmonary window is a rare form of congenital heart disease that can be seen in isolation or with associated other complex cardiac lesions. Although aortopulmonary window has been associated...

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Can Natural Anomalies Inform Surgical Design? A Reappraisal of Coronary Origins in HLHS

June 18, 2018 | Mohammed Al-Jughiman

Suboptimal coronary perfusion following the Norwood procedure has been documented in multiple studies (1–5). In response to this ongoing concern, a surgical refinement was conceptualized involving the transfer of coronary...

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Superior Approach for Supracardiac Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection

May 31, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Liufu and colleagues evaluated outcomes for repair of supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous connection via the superior approach in 198 pediatric patients, with a median age of 95 days at...

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Optimal Use of Z-Scores to Preserve the Pulmonary Valve Annulus During Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot

May 11, 2018 | Claire Vernon

Awori and colleagues reviewed 19 published studies on repair of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), representing 2,500 patients of which 54.8% had a transannular patch (TAP) inserted to relieve right ventricular...

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Randomized Controlled Trials in Children’s Heart Surgery in the 21st Century: A Systematic Review

April 16, 2018 | Claire Vernon

In this systematic review, Drury and colleagues evaluated 333 randomized trials in pediatric cardiac surgery that comprised approximately 24,000 children. Most of the trials were early phase trials and recruited...

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