Sometimes a baby is born with certain types of congenital heart problems. In these cases, a type of open heart surgery called the Fontan procedure is done as the final part of a series of surgeries ...
In 1968, Fontan and his colleagues successfully separated the pulmonary and systemic blood flow in a patient with tricuspid atresia by placing the circulations in series, with the single ventricle ...
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 ...
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