The Fontan operation is now among the most common procedures performed to treat complex congenital cardiac defects not amenable to biventricular repair. The advent of the Norwood procedure to treat ...

Fontan physiology poses unique anaesthetic challenges due to passive pulmonary circulation, preload dependence and elevated venous pressures. We present a case of a parturient in her 20s with Fontan ...

Patients who have had surgery to create a Fontan circulation show changes in their genetic code, which may provide a new treatment opportunity to reduce premature aging. The procedure is used to treat ...

The lifesaving surgery used to treat children with single ventricle heart disease, the Fontan procedure, can pose serious health complications throughout life. The American Heart Association, devoted ...

A multi-center study has identified critical risk factors that increase the likelihood of death in children with a heart defect who are awaiting or have recently undergone heart transplantation, ...

Of the thousands of children born each year with congenital heart defects, a small cohort have severe malformations of their cardiac chambers leading to a single ventricle physiology. The current ...

Single ventricular defects of the heart occur in 5 out of 100,000 live births. This type of congenital heart defect does not provide a sustainable circulatory system for the patients affected.

Twenty years after the publication of Fontan's landmark article, he and his colleagues [16] warned about the long-term results of the Fontan operation, expressing the fear that continuing attrition ...