The Fontan operation and its variants have become the procedures of choice in patients with one anatomical or functional ventricular chamber. In a normal biventricular heart, the systemic and ...

A higher pulmonary vascular resistance index during exercise, but not at rest, predicts poor clinical outcomes in adults with ...

In the current issue of Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, researchers Ahmed Kheiwa, Anushree Agarwal and Anitha John from the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of ...

Of the thousands of children born each year with congenital heart defects, a small cohort have severe malformations of their cardiac chambers leading to a single ventricle physiology. The current ...

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, ...

These new codes will allow for improved clinical documentation, insurance reimbursement, and health system recognition of the unique and complex needs of patients living with Fontan physiology. "This ...

The Fontan operation is now among the most common procedures performed to treat complex congenital cardiac defects not amenable to biventricular repair. The advent of the Norwood procedure to treat ...