A web-based survey of educational opportunities of medical professionals based on changes in conference design during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unlabelled: Owing to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, understanding how to hold future online academic conferences effectively is imperative. We assessed the impact of COVID-19 on academic conferences, including facilities and settings for attendance, participation status, cost burden, and preferences for future styles of holding conferences, through a web-based questionnaire survey of 2,739 Japanese medical professionals, from December 2020 to February 2021. Of the participants, 28% preferred web conferences, 60% preferred a mix of web and on-site conferences, and 12% preferred on-site conferences.

Infected pulmonary aneurysm following pulmonary artery banding.

A 1-month-old girl, diagnosed with a common atrioventricular canal, moderate atrioventricular valvular regurgitation, and pulmonary hypertension, underwent pulmonary artery banding. Postoperatively, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus wound infection was treated with antibiotics. One month later, emergency surgery was performed for oozing rupture of an infected pulmonary aneurysm.

[Atrial Septal Hematoma after Repair of Ventricular Septal Defect;Report of a Case].

A 3-month-old female with ventricular septal defect underwent definitive repair. In the operation, a venting tube was inserted through the incised patent foramen ovale. The ventricular septal defect was closed using a patch and the incised patent foramen ovale was directly closed.