Transcatheter Closure of an Extracardiac Fontan Fenestration

Overview

Journal Ann Thorac Surg

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties General Surgery
Pulmonary Medicine

Date 1998 Aug 6

PMID 9692482

Citations 3

Authors

E M Zahn

A C Chang

R P Burke

J P Jacobs

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Abstract

As the extracardiac Fontan operation evolves, a reliable method for creating and subsequently closing communications between the systemic and pulmonary venous chambers would be useful. We describe a surgical technique for creating this "fenestration" and a complementary transcatheter technique that allows safe and reliable closure of these communications regardless of size and position.

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