Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the two-part UNIVERSE study, 12 children who underwent the Fontan procedure were enrolled in a single-arm ...

While the Fontan procedure has improved the short- and mid-term outcomes for patients born with single ventricle anatomy, long-term complications of Fontan circulation include heart failure. These ...

The Fontan palliation was introduced in 1968 to treat cardiac malformations unsuitable for biventricular repair. This procedure has transformed the surgical management of congenital heart disease. In ...

The aim of this study was to investigate clot contraction and polyhedrocyte formation in vitro, and their potential associations with clinical and routine laboratory parameters in the Fontan ...

An elevated body mass index (BMI) in childhood is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and it may pose an additional risk to children and adults with palliated univentricular ...

When considering whether a child who has a single-ventricle heart defect would benefit more from biventricular repair or the Fontan procedure, heart specialists have lacked a key tool to guide them: ...

The Fontan operation, which places the systemic and pulmonary circulations in series and is driven by a single ventricular chamber, is the treatment of choice for patients born with one ventricle. Its ...

Long-term hepatic dysfunction is an increasingly recognized complication of corrective surgery for complex cyanotic congenital heart disease. 1 We report four cases of hepatocellular carcinoma in ...

The letter by Asrani et al. (May 2 issue) 1 reports cases of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients who have undergone Fontan palliation for univentricular hearts. Our practice includes yearly screening ...