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The Fontan Kreutzer procedure is used in pediatric patients who possess only a single functional ventricle, either due to lack of a heart valve (e.g. tricuspid or mitral atresia), an abnormality of the pumping ability of the heart (e.g. hypoplastic left heart syndrome or hypoplastic right heart syndrome), or a complex congenital heart disease where a bi-ventricular repair is impossible or ...
The Fontan procedure, done usually after the patient is two years old, disconnects the inferior vena cava from the heart and connects it directly with the other pulmonary artery so that deoxygenated blood from the lower body then is sent directly to the lungs. [citation needed]
Currently, infants undergo either the staged reconstructive surgery (Norwood or Sano procedure within a few days of birth, Glenn or Hemi-Fontan procedure at 3 to 6 months of age, and the Fontan procedure at 1 1/2 to 5 years of age) or cardiac transplantation. [10] Current expectations are that 70% of those with HLHS may reach adulthood. [18]
An estimated annual 1,000 Fontan procedures are performed annually in the United States, with an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 patients having completed the procedure as of 2018. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In Europe, an estimated 25,000 patients have completed the Fontan procedure as of 2021.
Fontan was born on 2 July 1929 in Nay, a small town in the French Pyrenees. [1] He was the son of Victor Fontan and his wife Jeanne (née Larquey). [2] Fontan's father was a cyclist who was leading the 1929 Tour de France before his bicycle was damaged in an accident, forcing him to withdraw from the race.
Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus received up to $46 million in a grant to help develop an innovative treatment to cure blindness.
Where too much flow to the lungs is present, a pulmonary band may be placed in a first operation. Second operation: cavopulmonary anastomosis (hemi-Fontan or bidirectional Glenn) to provide stable pulmonary flow; Final operation: Fontan procedure to redirect inferior vena cava and hepatic vein flow into the pulmonary circulation. [6]
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