Fontan Procedure

Known as: Procedure, Fontan, fontan operations, Stage III Norwood Procedure

A procedure in which total right atrial or total caval blood flow is channeled directly into the pulmonary artery or into a small right ventricle…

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2011

Objective: To report the utility of inhaled nitric oxide to ameliorate excessive hypoxemia in children with pulmonary…

2003

OBJECTIVE: Although long-term prostacyclin(PGI2) therapy in patients with severe pulmonary hypertension (PH)reduces pulmonary…

2001

We read with interest the report of Raush et al. describing levels of coagulation factors in patients following modified Fontan…

1989

Between October 1973 and mid-January 1987, 500 patients underwent a modified Fontan operation at the Mayo Clinic. This included…

Review

1987

Review

1987

During a 10 year period 109 patients (3 months to 47 years old) underwent modifications of the Fontan procedure for repair of…

1987

1986

The application of the Fontan type of surgical repair, for patients with complex abnormalities of the systemic and/or pulmonary…

1986

The Fontan procedure and its modifications has eliminated the cyanosis of many patients with severe congenital heart lesions that…

1984

In the Fontan operation and numerous of its modifications for hemodynamic correction of tricuspid atresia, extraanatomical…

1981

Twenty-six patients with tricuspid atresia (15), univentricular heart (7), and single ventricle (4) underwent 27 Fontan or…