Atrial Septal Defect Closure: Not Always Straightforward.

A nine-year old boy presented following a chest x-ray for COVID-19 infection that showed cardiomegaly. Transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a large atrial septal defect, dilated right heart, and normal function. Surgical repair was performed eight weeks after his COVID diagnosis.

Contemporary Applications and Outcomes of Pulmonary Artery Banding: An Analysis of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database.

Background: Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) in isolation or combined with a congenital cardiac surgical procedure is common and has important mortality. We aimed to determine patient characteristics, clinical outcomes, variation in clinical outcomes by diagnoses, and center variation in PAB use.

Methods: Using The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Heart Surgery Database (STS CHSD), this study evaluated outcomes of patients undergoing PAB across diagnoses, participating centers, and additional procedures.

-The Official Journal of the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society.

The () was established in 2009, as a means of advancing the educational and scholarship goals of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. has grown steadily since the first issue was published in April 2010. In 2017, the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society and the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association both designated as the official journal of their respective organizations.

The Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society Presidents and Their Contributions.

The Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHSS) was founded by 16 congenital heart surgeons in 1973, who endeavored to share their clinical advances in an informal setting that would stimulate honest and forthright discussions. As the Society grew, prospective studies were organized from a centralized data center that was established and based first in Birmingham, Alabama, thence to Toronto, and recently in a collaboration between Toronto and the Cleveland Clinic. These studies formed the basis for a myriad of outcomes reports that favorably impacted surgical results.

Contemporary Relationship Between Hospital Volume and Outcomes in Congenital Heart Surgery.

Background: Studies examining the volume-outcome relationship in congenital heart surgery (CHS) are more than a decade old. Since then, mortality has declined, and case-mix adjustment has evolved. We determined the current relationship between hospital CHS volume and outcomes.

The aortic uncrossing procedure.

Objective: Cross-sectional imaging allows identification of rare patients with a vascular ring and circumflex aorta. The key diagnostic feature is crossing of the transverse aortic arch from right to left posterior to the trachea and superior to the carina in a patient with a right aortic arch. We evaluated our patients who received an aortic uncrossing procedure.

Vascular rings.

Vascular rings are congenital aortic arch anomalies that lead to compression of the trachea or esophagus. The goal of this review is to summarize our current recommendations for the management of patients with a diagnosis of a vascular ring. We review the history, classification methods, and epidemiology of the various types of vascular rings.