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Fontan's operation: evolution from a procedure to a process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2006

Jorge M. Giroud  and
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Jorge M. Giroud
Affiliation:
The Congenital Heart Institute of Florida, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
Jeffrey P. Jacobs
Affiliation:
The Congenital Heart Institute of Florida, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, Florida, United States of America
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It was in 1971, Fontan and Baudet1 published their experience using a surgical procedure to restore a physiologic circulation in three patients with tricuspid atresia. Of the three patients, two survived, thus ushering a new era in the treatment of children with complex forms of congenital cardiac disease. This operation itself, however, was the culmination of a series of experimental and clinical observations that underlined the clinical possibility totally to bypass the right side of the heart.

Keywords

Single ventricleuniventricular heartdouble inlet ventricletricuspid atresia
Type
Research Article
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 16 , Supplement S1: Controversies and Challenges in the Management of the Functionally Univentricular Heart , February 2006 , pp. 67 - 71
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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