1) Exactly 40 years ago today, the landmark @NEJM paper “Influence of the Internal Mammary Artery Graft on 10-Year Survival and Other Cardiac Events” was published, establishing the IMA–LAD graft as the cornerstone of CABG. https://t.co/sEshntEer9
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AATS 2024 and 2025 ECDs:
Management of Ebstein anomaly in children and adults. Chai P, Konstantinov IE, et al. JTCVS 2025 https://t.co/Hpm8Zi3upm
Management of neonates and infants with Ebstein anomaly. Konstantinov IE, Chai P, et al. JTCVS 2024 https://t.co/y7IznTtCV3
I was tempted to read this review (despite some of the authors involved) until I read this misleading sentence in the abstract. @JACCJournals lost a good opportunity to correct the authors. https://t.co/B6NLKGku1u
To repair truncal valve one must change the shape of the root from rectangular to square. For detail read:
Konstantinov IE. Truncal valve repair in neonates. JTCVS 2025;170(1):17-22.
doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.12.009. PMID: 39706548
https://t.co/yLhxvYV1GL
Nearly 15 million people are living with congenital heart disease around the world. If operated early in life, MOST WILL HAVE NORMAL LIFE! Every child should have access to heart surgery.
This is the latest update on the 🛑“Najm Procedure” 🛑for surgical relieve of trans-septal left main coronary artery. Surgical pearls when the LAD is intra- cavitary , a technique helpful also in CABG https://t.co/jTAEmBcIiM