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Ahmad Elderie1, Abhi Reddy1, Farhan Zafar1
11 Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Abstract:
When the interventricular septum is intact, a well-formed non-systemic ventricle with no outlet is prone to hypertension and hypertrophy after Fontan operation. Herein, we report a patient who had a complex d-transposition of the great arteries palliated over 14 years ago with a Fontan operation and presented with a hypertensive left ventricle (LV) contributing to heart failure. He underwent surgical creation of a ventricular septal defect to decompress the LV and was able to resume his desired lifestyle.
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