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Successful use of the total artificial heart in the failing Fontan circulation
Joseph W Rossano1, David J Goldberg1, Stephanie Fuller2
1Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 4, 2014
Abstract:
Typical left ventricular assist devices are often ineffective for the failing Fontan circulation. We report the first successful use of a total artificial heart as a bridge to transplant in a patient who had previously undergone a Fontan operation.

