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Closure of a Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO): An Intervention Sequence
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Obstruction of lateral tunnel fontan by an adjustable occluder device
Reshma M Biniwale1, Winfield J Wells, Cynthia S Herrington
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90027, USA. rbiniwale@chla.usc.edu
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|January 19, 2010
Abstract:
Innovative ways of adjusting Fontan fenestrations have been developed over the last two decades. Long-term complications have not been described. We successfully treated one such complication of Fontan conduit obstruction due to an adjustable occluder device.

