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 ...

HEMOPTYSIS occurs quite frequently as a consequence of mitral stenosis, but massive, life-threatening pulmonary hemorrhage is distinctly unusual. 1–4,5,6 Oppenheimer and Schwartz 3 have termed its ...

HEMOPTYSIS is an important symptom and often indicates serious disease. Chaves 1 reported that it occurred in 6.8 per cent of all patients seen in an outpatient chest clinic. Abbott 2 found that ...