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Neuropsychological Status and Structural Brain Imaging in Adolescents With Single Ventricle Who Underwent the Fontan Procedure

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association, 2015
Background Few studies have described the neuropsychological outcomes and frequency of structural brain or genetic abnormalities in adolescents with single ventricle who underwent the Fontan procedure.
Christopher G Watson   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Multimodality Screening of Hepatic Nodules in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease After Fontan Procedure: Role of Ultrasound, ARFI Elastography, CT, and MRI.

AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2018
OBJECTIVE Currently, there is no consensus in the literature regarding the screening of hepatic nodules in patients who have undergone the Fontan procedure.
N. Horvat   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hepatocellular Carcinoma as a Complication of Vascular Disease of the Liver After Fontan Procedure

Hepatology, 2018
Liver disease is a recognised complication of the Fontan procedure for cyanotic congenital heart disease. The Fontan procedure is a complex cardio-surgical procedure that diverts systemic venous blood in patients with univentricular hearts directly into ...
C. Mazzarelli   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pulmonary Screening in Subjects after the Fontan Procedure

Jornal de Pediatria, 2018
Objectives To review the pulmonary findings of the first 51 patients who presented to our interdisciplinary single‐ventricle clinic after undergoing the Fontan procedure.
D. Liptzin   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessment of Late Thromboembolic Complications Post–Fontan Procedure in Relation to Different Antithrombotic Regimens: 30-Years’ Follow-up Experience

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, 2019
Background: The current CHEST guidelines recommend the use of antithrombotic therapy, either aspirin or warfarin, as a primary thromboembolic complications (TECs) prophylaxis in patients who undergo Fontan procedure, without specification on drug ...
Abdulrazaq S. Al-Jazairi   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evolution of the Fontan-Kreutzer Procedure

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual, 2010
The surgical techniques used to construct the Fontan-Kreutzer circulation have evolved considerably since the initial reports. In the early years, it was thought that a power source other than the main ventricular chamber was useful or even necessary to serve the pulmonary circulation.
openaire   +2 more sources

Fontan Procedure - Indication and Clinical Results*,**

The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon, 1981
Twenty-six patients with tricuspid atresia (15), univentricular heart (7), and single ventricle (4) underwent 27 Fontan or modified Fontan procedures between 1975 and 1981. The age of the patients varied between 4 and 26 years. Twenty patients had had a total of 33 palliative operations prior to correction.
E R, de Vivie   +5 more
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Update on the modified Fontan procedure

Current Opinion in Cardiology, 1997
There have been multiple modifications for surgical palliation of functional single ventricle since the initial report by Fontan and Baudet in 1971. A modified Fontan procedure has been offered to patients with a variety of complex cyanotic heart disease at younger ages, and has resulted in decreased mortality.
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Outcomes after the Fontan procedure

Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2002
Over the past two decades, advances in congenital heart surgery, pediatric cardiology, and intensive care medicine have dramatically increased the survival of infants with critical congenital heart disease. The group of patients that has perhaps benefited the most from this progress has been the single-ventricle population.
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Intermediate results of the extracardiac fontan procedure

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1996
Fourteen children (ages 2 to 14 years) and 1 adult (32 years) have undergone a modification of the Fontan procedure in which an extracardiac lateral tunnel or conduit is used in combination with staged or simultaneous bidirectional Glenn shunt(s).Extracardiac lateral tunnels (n = 9) were constructed using a polytetrafluoroethylene patch (n = 7 ...
J C, Laschinger   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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