Abstract Objective: Establishment of Fontan circulation in complex univentricular hearts often
requires several surgical procedures. We developed a procedure which maintains the …

Abstract Three patients (ages 3, 5, and 8 years) with various forms of functionally
univentricular heart lesions received a total cavopulmonary connection with an extracardiac …

Purpose: We report a simple technique for an interventional extracardiac Fontan (ECF)
procedure. Description: At the preparatory stage along with a bidirectional cavopulmonary …

Objective. Discontinuous pulmonary arteries are believed to portend poor outcomes for a
single ventricle palliation leading to Fontan's operation. This is a single institutional review of …

Objective: To identify clinical parameters indicating perioperative fenestration closure in
children who underwent the fenestrated Fontan operation. Design: Retrospective. Setting …

BackgroundDespite improvements in outcomes after completion of the Fontan circulation,
long-term functional state varies. We sought to identify pre-and postoperative characteristics …

The Fontan circulation results from routing of the systemic venous blood to the pulmonary
circulation without a hydraulic source of a ventricle. Although a hypertrophied right atrium …

The Fontan operation is the anticipated palliative strategy for children born with single-
ventricle type of congenital heart disease. As a result of important circulatory limitations, a …

Many patients with a functional univentricular heart were treated in the 1970s and 1980s,
using an atriopulmonary connection to create the Fontan circulation. 1–3 Although this …

In modified Fontan procedures, a surgically created intra-atrial communication or baffle
fenestration (BF) has been shown to increase cardiac index, reduce right venous pressures …