This article from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Virtual Conference Taskforce provides recommendations applicable to all virtual meetings and beyond with focused dicscussion on timezones, diversity/inclusion and how to optimize participant interactivity and networking.
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Congenital
November 16, 2020
November 12, 2020
This video demonstrates a 2-year-old patient with infective endocarditis and severely damaged mitral valve who underwent a complex mitral valve repair by resecting all the infected tissue and rebuilding the architecture of the valve by multiple Matrix patches and chordal transfer.
November 11, 2020
William Brawn discusses his approach to hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
November 9, 2020
In a press release early this morning, Pfizer and BioNTech accounced the results of their vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 in the first interim efficacy analysis of its Phase 3 clinical study.
November 5, 2020
This video demonstrates the septasuperior approach for TAPVC repair as a simple and reproducible technique.
November 2, 2020
This video presents the surgical repair of a symptomatic double aortic arch complete vascular ring in a 2-month-old boy.
October 29, 2020
This video shows the surgical video of total repair of tetralogy of Fallot in an infant, one of the most common procedures performed for cyanotic congenital heart diseases.
October 29, 2020
The authors present a case of AV valve repair in a 3 kg infant with tricuspid atresia.
October 28, 2020
In this interview, Shruti Jayakumar and Martin Elliott discuss his path to and experience in congenital heart surgery.
October 21, 2020
Coronary artery transection and re-implantation is a useful surgical alternative in AAOCA with an intramural course through the inter-coronary pillar where unroofing does not relocate the neo-ostium into the appropriate sinus.