Pulmonary Artery
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 at Harvard Medical School, Boston,...
A 16-year-old male presented with shortness of breath and exertional fatigue. He had a history of repeat hospitalization due to acute episodes of suspected pulmonary edema. He had previously undergone...
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...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with Timur Kyashif, a cardiac resident at Jena University Hospital in Jena, Germany, about the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiac,...
Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) remains an important palliative strategy in selected congenital cardiac patients. Traditionally, it is performed through a median sternotomy, which provides excellent exposure but may increase surgical...
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...
This 2026 joint expert consensus document from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, and the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association addresses...
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...
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...
This retrospective single-center study from Nara Medical University evaluated en bloc stapling of the pulmonary artery branches, bronchus, and adherent lymph nodes using an auto-stapler as a bailout technique during...
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 thoracic session features leading surgeons presenting on advancements in robotic and complex thoracic surgery at the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Annual Scientific Meeting 2026. To begin,...
An 8 cm left sub-areolar thoracotomy was performed as the working port. The pericardium was opened vertically over the left ventricular apex and suspended with retraction sutures. Using 3-0 polypropylene...







