This video demonstrates the surgical solution to a percutaneous atrial septal defect closure device that migrated into the main pulmonary artery, creating a life-threatening situation.
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Septal defects
November 8, 2025
September 16, 2025
This video demonstrates two cases in which incision of the moderator band, though controversial, was necessary to adequately relieve right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.
August 25, 2025
This video demonstrates an off-pump technique for managing symptomatic epicardial lead complications, resulting in symptom improvement without the risks associated with traditional bypass surgery.
March 12, 2025
Dr. Yazan AlJamal and Dr. Husam Balkhy present two symptomatic young patients with secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) who underwent totally endoscopic robotic assisted ASD closure.
July 7, 2022
Keep up with the world of cardiac robotics surgery by viewing the 2022 Surgical Robotics and Innovation Summit, held in June 2022 in Sydney, Australia, in partnership with the ANNALS of Cardiothoracic Surgery and CTSNet.
March 4, 2021
This technique video demonstrates an exceptionally rare congenital case of an 8-month-old with common arterial trunk, complete atrioventricular septal defect, LSVC to LA, and right aortic arch with mirror-image branching who is s/p bilateral pulmonary artery banding.
September 11, 2018
In this Men's Journal feature, Dr. William Novick describes his beginnings in international congenital heart surgery and how the personal credo: "Screw politics, screw religion; I'm here to help" has landed him inside the operating rooms of some of the world's most hostile regions.
September 11, 2018
The authors present two Nikaidoh procedures performed for different underlying anatomies and they discuss aspects of the operation.
September 5, 2018
Viktor Hraska discusses the motivation behind CTSNet's first Congenital Guest Editor Series and describes the important congenital heart surgery techniques that it covers.
July 19, 2018
The authors demonstrate a fourth-time redo sternotomy for an eight-year-old girl who had prior repair of an atrioventricular septal defect.