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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 final procedure, the Fontan procedure, completes the repair of the hypoplastic left heart. [33] Although there are several variations, the functional effect is to redirect venous blood from the lower body (through the inferior vena cava) away from the right atrium to the pulmonary artery.
Diagram of a heart with tricuspid atresia, and how it looks after a Fontan procedure. Based on Diagram_of_the_human_heart_(cropped).svg. Date: 6 March 2009, 15:11 (UTC) Source: Diagram_of_the_human_heart_(cropped).svg; Author: Diagram_of_the_human_heart_(cropped).svg: Yaddah cropped image by Wapcaplet; derivative work: RupertMillard (talk ...
Blalock-Taussig is a traditional procedure, and Fontan procedure is widely operated recently. The goal of most isolated levocardia surgeries is to rebuild parts of the heart and "redirect" the way blood flows in order to augment pulmonary blood flow. Cardiac surgeries have high risk.
Single ventricle is a rare congenital heart defect, which constitutes just over 1% of congenital cardiovascular diseases. [1] The single functional ventricle could be morphologically right or left with the second ventricle usually hypoplastic and/or insufficiently functional.
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, or HLHS, is a congenital heart defect that affects the left side of the heart, specifically affecting the left ventricle and ascending aorta. Also, the aortic valve and mitral valve might be either too small to allow enough blood to flow through, or they might be absent altogether, called atresia.
These patients typically require a Fontan procedure at 18 to 36 months of age following the Glenn BDG procedure. Examples of congenital cardiac malformations in which this procedure may be used include hypoplastic left heart syndrome, tricuspid atresia, double-inlet left ventricle and double-outlet right ventricle.
A double inlet left ventricle (DILV) or "single ventricle", is a congenital heart defect appearing in 5 in 100,000 newborns, where both the left atrium and the right atrium feed into the left ventricle. The right ventricle is hypoplastic or does not exist. Both atria communicate with the ventricle by a single atrio-ventricular valve.