Fontan Anticoagulation
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Prophylactic anticoagulation following the Fontan operation.
Correspondence to: Dr Michael A Gatzoulis, Adult Congenital Heart Programme, Department of Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; m.gatzoulis@ rbh.nthames.nhs.uk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T he Fontan procedure was first successfully performed in 1971 in a patient with tricuspid atresia, and has become the preferred approach for surgical palli...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.06.050