The Fontan procedure is used to treat various serious congenital heart defects. Although
many people who have had the procedure live productively into adulthood, as they age, they …

Application of the Fontan procedure has allowed the survival of many patients with
univentricular cardiac lesions into mid adulthood. Despite its ingenious design …

The Fontan procedure refers to any operation that results in the flow of systemic venous
blood to the lungs without passing through a ventricle. It is performed to treat several …

Opinion statement Fontan type palliations are a group of operations employed in patients
with only one functional ventricle. These procedures take the normally parallel pulmonary …

Early survival after the Fontan operation has improved significantly leading to a lifetime of
Fontan circulation for patients. There is a natural progression of pulmonary artery pressure …

The Fontan operation has been nothing short of revolutionary in its influence on the modern
management of patients born with functionally univentricular hearts. The vast majority of …

While the Fontan operation has facilitated the survival of a generation of children born with
congenital heart disease resulting in a functional single ventricle, it does not recreate a …

The article focuses on the Fontan procedure and its outcomes in the unique patient type. As
stated, the extracardiac conduit (ECC) Fontan is one of the most frequently used Fontan …

Adults with congenital heart disease who underwent the Fontan operation to palliate single
ventricle heart defects—by direct connection of caval venous return to the pulmonary …

The Fontan operation is performed as a palliative procedure to improve survival in infants
born with a functionally univentricular circulation. The success of the operation is …