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Extracardiac Fontan operation with tube fenestration allowing transcatheter coil occlusion
S Sanatani1, S S Sett, D G Human
1Department of Radiology, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|October 13, 1998
Abstract:
A fenestration may improve the immediate postoperative course after a Fontan procedure by preserving the cardiac output. We describe a simple and safe technique of fenestration amenable to coil occlusion, which can be carried out in most cardiac catheterization laboratories.