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Myocardial work and hepato-renal complications in Fontan circulation: a single center experience.

, 2022
openBackground: La palliazione secondo Fontan è un intervento che viene realizzato da ormai più di 50 anni e che ha permesso a molti pazienti pediatrici affetti da cardiopatie congenite severe di raggiungere l’età adulta. Sempre più frequentemente ci
MASETTI ZANNINI, PAOLA
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Significance of additional pulmonary blood flow between second and third stage in Fontan pathway

BMC Pediatrics
Background The benefit of additional pulmonary blood flow (APBF) in Fontan pathway remains controversial. The aim of the study was to analyze the systemic arterial saturation, ventricular and atrioventricular (AV) valve function, development of pulmonary
Katarzyna Januszewska, Pawel Nawrocki, Andreas Bruenen, Alexander Schnabel, Edward Malec   +4 more
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A Reconsideration of Risk Factors for the Fontan Operation

Annals of Surgery, 1990
We reviewed our experience in 38 patients who underwent a Fontan operation. In the first five patients ages 7.5 to 23 years (mean, 15 years), a conduit was placed from the right atrium to the small right ventricle or the pulmonary artery (PA). The remaining 33 patients, ages 7 months to 14 years (mean, 4.8 years), had a modified Fontan operation with ...
J L, Myers, J A, Waldhausen, H S, Weber, J D, Arenas, S E, Cyran, M M, Gleason, B G, Baylen   +6 more
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Results of the modified Fontan procedure are not related to age at operation.

, 2010
Objective: The modified Fontan procedure represents the final stage for the palliation of hearts with single-ventricle physiology. Different opinions exist regarding the optimal timing of the operation, with most centres advocating early intervention. By
Oppido G, Pace Napoleone C, Angeli E, GIARDINI, ALESSANDRO, Resciniti E, GARGIULO, GAETANO DOMENICO   +5 more
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Staged operation to fontan increases the incidence of sinoatrial node dysfunction [PDF]

, 1996
Morbidity and mortality of total cavopulmonary connection (modified Fontan procedure) may be decreased in many patients with single ventricle in whom the risk of surgery is high by performing the operations in a staged fashion.
Mayer, John E., Wernovsky, Gil, Walsh, Edward P., Manning, Peter B., Fishberger, Steven B.   +4 more
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Cardiac autonomic function in patients with single ventricle physiology after Fontan palliation: A literature review

International Journal of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease
Background: The Fontan operation has significantly improved survival in patients with single ventricle physiology. This comes at a price of highly prevalent long-term complications.
Elizaveta Polyakova, Marieke Nederend, Philippine Kies, Anastasia D. Egorova, Monique R.M. Jongbloed   +4 more
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Somatic development long after the Fontan operation: Factors influencing catch-up growth [PDF]

, 2007
ObjectiveAs mortality and morbidity after the Fontan operation has improved, long-term outcome, including developmental aspects, have become more important.
Breymann, Thomas, Mechthild Westhoff-Bleck, Lange, Melanie, Masamichi Ono, Heidi Goerler, Boethig, Dietmar, Dietmar Boethig, Melanie Lange, Goerler, Heidi, Westhoff-Bleck, Mechthild, Thomas Breymann, Ono, Masamichi   +11 more
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The Fontan patient

, 2016
Description of the Fontan operation is provided; conditions that are treated with this operation are presented, and the clinical problems encountered by patients who have been subjected to a Fontan operation are discussed.
Bernard J. Gersh, Demosthenes G. Katritsis, A. John Camm   +2 more
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Improved early morbidity and mortality after Fontan operation: The mayo clinic experience, 1987 to 1992 [PDF]

, 1996
Objectives.This study sought to evaluate changes in early morbidity and mortality as well as predictors of outcome in our most recent 339 patients undergoing modified Fontan operations.Background.The Fontan operation is the preferred definitive ...
Offord, Kenneth P., Schaff, Hartzell V., Feldt, Robert H., Mair, Douglas D., Warnes, Carole A., O'Leary, Patrick W., Porter, Co-Burn J., Danielson, Gordon K., Cetta, Frank, Driscoll, David J., Hagler, Donald J., Puga, Francisco J.   +11 more
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The Outcomes of Superior Cavopulmonary Connection Operation: a Single Center Experience

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Introduction: The superior cavopulmonary connection operation is one of the stages of the palliative surgical management for patients with functionally single ventricle.
Alwaleed Al-Dairy, Maziar Gholampour Dehaki, Gholamreza Omrani, Ali Sadeghpour, Amir Hossein Jalali, Reza Sadat Afjehi, Mohammad Mahdavi, Mahmood Salesi   +7 more
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