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A multi-center study has identified critical risk factors that increase the likelihood of death in children with a heart defect who are awaiting or have recently undergone heart transplantation, ...

Patients with Fontan circulatory failure face higher mortality risk while awaiting or after undergoing heart transplantation, if they have certain health complications, according to a multi-center ...

Protein-losing enteropathy is a debilitating complication of Fontan circulation, characterized by congestion of the thoracic duct (TD) that normally trains into the innominate vein (InV). Two surgical ...

Each child had already undergone at least three open-heart surgeries. They’d endured countless hours in doctors’ offices and hospitals after being born with a serious heart condition. But this fall ...

Patients with Fontan palliation have reduced aerobic capacity because of impaired cardiac, pulmonary, and skeletal muscle function. However, the assessment of aerobic capacity in this population still ...

Elizabeth Marie Fontan, age 39, passed away on June 27, 2024, at her residence. She leaves behind to cherish her memory, her mother, Kathy Fontan Gardner and stepfather, Donald Gardner. Elizabeth was ...

The following is a summary of “Utility of novel STE parameters in echocardiographic assessment of single ventricle after Fontan palliation,” published in the June 2024 issue of Cardiology by Kowalczyk ...

Dr Julian Alexander Härtel and Dr Nicole Müller from the Department of Paediatric Cardiology at the UKB, who jointly led the study, with study nurse and coordinator Ute Baur. The researchers conducted ...