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Transcatheter Fontan completion using novel balloon and stent system
E Oliver Aregullin1, Bassel Mohammad Nijres1, Yasser Al-Khatib1
1Congenital Heart Center, Spectrum Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
Abstract:
Despite advances in percutaneous interventions, transcatheter Fontan completion remains experimental and performed only in select cases. Non-surgical Fontan completion requires surgical preconditioning at an earlier stage of palliation. We describe transcatheter Fontan completion in a 15-year-old male with previously failed surgical Fontan palliation without surgical preconditioning.

