Pulmonary Artery
In this video, the authors present a case of anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ARCAPA) repaired via right axillary thoracotomy. A 5-month-old, 6 kg child with no prior medical...
In this video, the authors present a case of anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ARCAPA) repaired via right axillary thoracotomy. A 5-month-old, 6 kg...
In this retrospective study of 170 patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension at a high-volume center, 25 percent developed recurrent moderate or greater tricuspid regurgitation. Reoccurrence was...
Patient selection includes infants requiring aortic arch reconstruction with concomitant intracardiac repair, particularly those with a dilated main pulmonary artery associated with pulmonary hypertension. Operative Steps A median sternotomy was...
The authors present a novel operative technique for an aortopulmonary window. The patient was a two-month-old boy, the product of a full-term pregnancy, who presented with an incidental finding of...
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...







