Perioperative Management of Fontan Operation
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Fontan operation.
D uring the past 4 decades, the Fontan operation has been carried out as a surgical treatment in patients with tricuspid atresia. Over the years, it has become established as a revolutionary therapy in patients with univentricular heart physiology. Many experimental and clinical studies have been performed with a view to understanding the Fontan circulation; in consequence, the operation has un...
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The fatal outcome in an eleven-year-old girl, one month after an extra-cardiac Fontan operation is reported. She was diagnosed with tricuspid atresia and had a Blalock Taussig shunt and a bidirectional Glenn procedure. The Fontan operation was performed using a Dacron conduit, fenestrated with a 6 mm Goretex tube. The first week after the operation she received low molecular weight heparin, the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0911-1794,2187-2988
DOI: 10.9794/jspccs.35.3