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 ...

Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health has performed the first known atrial leadless pacemaker implants in patients with lateral tunnel Fontan circulation and extracardiac Fontan, According to a Feb ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with Fontan circulation can successfully complete pregnancy, but an increase in cardiac and neonatal ...

DALLAS, July 1, 2019 -- The Fontan procedure has allowed more people born with only one ventricle -- the lower pumping chamber of the heart -- to survive into adulthood, but their unique circulatory ...

CCHMC is building a new learning network to assess long-term complications of a procedure for people born with a variety of congenital heart defects. A doctor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical ...

Patients with Fontan circulatory failure face higher mortality risk while awaiting or after undergoing heart transplantation, if they have certain health complications, according to a multi-center ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have identified risk factors for early and late ...

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 ...