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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 ...
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 .
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.
Indeed - the Fontan procedure is used as the second of three stages for the repair of hypolastic left heart, as well as an intermediate stage in the repair of any single-ventricle circulation. This can include pulmonary atresia, although this is often repaired with a Sano or Blalock-Taussig shunt.
The Fontana Modern Masters was a series of pocket guides on writers, philosophers, and other thinkers and theorists who shaped the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century. The first five titles were published on 12 January 1970 by Fontana Books, the paperback imprint of William Collins & Co , and the series editor was Frank Kermode ...
Fontana saw a position on a Marine Corps-based series called The Lieutenant and applied; [13] Fontana began working as a secretary for producer Del Reisman. [11] Around this time, she adopted the gender-blind pen name D.C. Fontana for her writing, to prevent her pitches being prejudged on the basis of her gender, as she was one of the few female writers at NBC at the time.
Louis Marie Fontan (November 4, 1801 – October 10, 1839), a French man of letters, was born in Lorient and died in Thiais. He began his career as a clerk in a government office, but was dismissed for taking part in a political banquet. At the age of nineteen he went to Paris and began to contribute to the Tablettes and the Album. He was ...
Carlos Soria Fontán (Ávila, Spain, February 5, 1939) [1] is a Spanish mountaineer who has taken up the challenge of becoming the oldest person in the world to reach the summits of the 14 eight-thousanders.