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Sometimes a baby is born with certain types of congenital heart problems. In these cases, a type of open heart surgery called the Fontan procedure is done as the final part of a series of surgeries ...
Gabriella Fontan, WOAR's new executive director, said in an email to The Inquirer that several services will continue ...
Melissa Lyle, MD: Hello, everyone. I am Melissa Lyle, cardiology fellow at Mayo Clinic. Today, we will be discussing the management of Fontan patients. I am joined by my colleagues, Dr Alexander Egbe ...
The Fontan palliation was introduced in 1968 to treat cardiac malformations unsuitable for biventricular repair. This procedure has transformed the surgical management of congenital heart disease. In ...
PHILADELPHIA — Udenafil in adolescents after Fontan surgery did not significantly improve oxygen consumption at peak exercise, although it did significantly improve exercise performance at the ...
Long-term hepatic dysfunction is an increasingly recognized complication of corrective surgery for complex cyanotic congenital heart disease. 1 We report four cases of hepatocellular carcinoma in ...
The Fontan operation, which places the systemic and pulmonary circulations in series and is driven by a single ventricular chamber, is the treatment of choice for patients born with one ventricle. Its ...
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 ...
Mandeville runner Nathan Fontan said when it came to picking a college that the University of Louisiana at Lafayette has always caught his eye. “I didn’t want to go that far from home was the main ...
Elle Driver burst onto the scene with its sales and finance company in 2008 and has since been a powerful force on the international sales circuit. Led by Adeline Fontan Tessaur and Eva Diederix, who ...