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Current Management of Late Failure After Classic Fontan Modifications: Fontan Conversions

The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, 2006
Re-establishment of Fontan circulation by eliminating the drawbacks of classic Fontan modifications has been proposed recently to improve the functional class and quality of life of patients with failed Fontan circulation.Five patients underwent extracardiac and lateral tunnel Fontan conversion due to failure of the Fontan circulation, after classic ...
E, Erek, Y K, Yalcinbas, A, Sarioglu, T, Sarioglu   +3 more
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Somatic growth failure after the Fontan operation

Cardiology in the Young, 2000
AbstractOur study was designed to characterize the patterns of growth, in the medium term, of children with functionally univentricular hearts managed with a hemi-Fontan procedure in infancy, followed by a modified Fontan operation in early childhood. Failure of growth is common in patients with congenital cardiac malformations, and may be related to ...
M I, Cohen, D M, Bush, R J, Ferry, T L, Spray, T, Moshang, G, Wernovsky, V L, Vetter   +6 more
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Management of Fontan failure

Heart, 2022
Emanuela Concetta D'Angelo, Cristina Ciuca, Gabriele Egidy Assenza   +2 more
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Achieving Consensus: Severity-Graded Definitions of Fontan-Associated Complications to Characterize Fontan Circulatory Failure

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Fontan physiology leads to chronic changes in other organ systems that may affect long-term survival and the success of heart transplantation. Inadequate assessment and treatment of the extra-cardiac effects of Fontan may contribute to poor outcomes.
Kurt R Schumacher, Ari Cedars, Kiona Allen   +2 more
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Causes of Failure of the Fontan Circulation

2009
The palliative surgical reconstruction which has become known as the Fontan operation is performed mainly in children who have hearts with only one adequately formed ventricle, or two that cannot be separated functionally. Fontan operations have undergone several modifications and refinements in the decades since Fontan and Baudet published their ...
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Acute Liver Failure after Fontan Procedure

1986
As the number of patients who require a Fontan-type procedure for complex congenital malformations increases, acute hepatic dysfunction or failure has become a matter of concern as a postoperative complication secondary to high postoperative venous pressure [1].
Elvio Covino, Hikaru Matsuda, Yuji Miyamoto, Yoshikado Sasako, Tetsuya Sano, Minoru Ogawa, Hajime Hirose, Yasunaru Kawashima   +7 more
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The Failing Fontan (or failure of our knowledge …)

Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2022
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Fontan failure in the current era

Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2006
Kumar Vijay, R Sharma, S Rao, C John, R Garg, R Arun, S Shah, A Marwah, PV Suresh, S Maheshwari, DP Shetty   +10 more
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Late Fontan failure in adult patients is predominantly associated with deteriorating ventricular function

International Journal of Cardiology, 2021
Hannes Sallmon, Stanislav Ovroutski, Anastasia Schleiger   +2 more
exaly  

Sizing Up Fontan Failure: Association with Increasing Weight in Adulthood

Pediatric Cardiology, 2021
Ryan D Byrne, Daniel E Clark, Steven J Healan   +2 more
exaly