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Late Consequences of the Fontan Operation [PDF]
Circulation, 2014 A 15-year-old boy with hypoplastic left heart syndrome presents with new-onset abdominal swelling and pretibial edema. The patient has been previously without symptoms from the cardiovascular perspective but is not very active and does not participate in sports. He is growing poorly, with height and weight
Jack, Rychik, David J, Goldberg
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Long-term management of Fontan patients: The importance of a multidisciplinary approach
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 The Fontan operation is a palliative procedure that leads to increased survival of patients with a functional single ventricle (SV). Starting from 1967 when the first operation was performed by Francis Fontan, more and more patients have reached ...
Diletta Martino +6 more
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Transcatheter Closure of Fenestration after Modified Fontan Operation in Children [PDF]
Journal of Tehran University Heart Center, 2008 Background: Fenestration in the modified Fontan operation allows right-to-left shunting, which reduces the Fontan pathway pressure and improves cardiac output. However, on account of the fact that persistent right-to-left shunting results in cyanosis and
Ali Akbar Shahmohammadi +5 more
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Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2015 As perioperative survival following the Fontan procedure has improved and more patients are reaping the benefits of physiologic palliation, the costs of longstanding systemic venous hypertension and the functional limitations of a single ventricle are becoming clearer. Arrhythmias, heart failure, protein-losing enteropathy, hepatic cirrhosis, pulmonary
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Cardiology Research and Practice, 2021 Objective. To assess the value of N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in short-term and long-term follow-up after a modified Fontan procedure. Methods.
Jianbin Li +6 more
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A Multimodal Score Accurately Classifies Fontan Failure and Late Mortality in Adult Fontan Patients
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 ObjectivesDespite the outstanding success of the Fontan operation, it is a palliative procedure and a substantial number of patients experience late failure of the Fontan circulation. Clinical presentation and hemodynamic phenotypes of Fontan failure are
Peter Kramer +10 more
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Hemodynamic assessment in transcatheter fenestration closure in patients after Fontan operation [PDF]
Българска кардиологияThe fenestration in Fontan operation consists in creation of a communication between venous circulation and the pulmonary venous atrium, allowing direct passage of blood from the venous to the systemic circulation (right-to-left shunt).
E. Levunlieva +2 more
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Impact of older age at Fontan completion on mid-term survival
The Egyptian Heart Journal, 2022 Background The optimum age of Fontan completion remains unknown. Currently, the majority of centers worldwide are performing Fontan completion at 2–4 years of age.
Ruth Grace Aurora +6 more
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The Fontan Operation is Not the End of the Road
Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2016 The purpose of this essay is to increase the awareness on what patients, families and those involved in the treatment and follow-up can face in the long run regarding the survivors of the Fontan operation (FO) and to provide some clues to diminish the deleterious effects of the single ventricle (SV) physiology. Although a significant number of patients
Caneo, Luiz Fernando +3 more
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Annals of Pediatric Cardiology, 2022 Congenital portosystemic venous connections are rare vascular anomalies that connect the portal and systemic venous circulations. These vascular lesions can lead to complex and varied physiologic manifestations in single-ventricle patients as they ...
Sarosh P Batlivala +2 more
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