Congenital & Pediatric
This video completes a day of excellent presentations by leading surgeons exploring advanced minimally invasive techniques including congenital ventricular septal defect (VSD) surgery, endoscopic transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) explantation, multivessel minimally invasive direct coronary...
Diaphragmatic paralysis following congenital cardiac surgery is an important cause of postoperative respiratory morbidity in neonates and infants. Prompt recognition and appropriate management are essential to reduce ventilator dependence and...
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning spoke with James Cox, Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA,...
An 8-year-old male (24 kg) presented with intermittent fever for 45 days. Echocardiography demonstrated infective endocarditis of a bicuspid aortic valve with multiple vegetations (largest 8 × 6 mm), severe...
This video demonstrates the modified trapdoor technique for direct reimplantation of an anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery. Case Presentation Following cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a three-month-old, 4.7 kg infant,...
Dextrocardia is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly with the heart in the right side of the chest, which can often be associated with other complex congenital heart diseases. A 30-year-old...
This video illustrates the surgical correction of ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm in a 13-year-old patient. 1. The patient had an initial diagnosis of moderate aortic valve regurgitation on functional...
Recovery following the neonatal Norwood procedure is often complicated by bleeding, acute kidney injury, systemic inflammatory response, and low cardiac function [1]. The traditional conduct of this operation under deep...
Introduction Levy et al [1] first described the aorto-left ventricular tunnel in 1963. This rare congenital malformation is an abnormal channel that connects the ascending aorta with the left ventricle,...
In this video, the authors discuss congenitally-corrected transposition of the great arteries. In order to describe a congenital heart defect adequately, the relationships between heart chambers and great vessels are...
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...




