title: Recent results with the modified Fontan operation.
abstract: From Jan 1989 to December 1991, 61 patients had modified Fontan procedures for a variety of lesions, including tricuspid atresia (18), mitral atresia (3), double inlet ventricle (14), isomeric hearts (4) and others (22). The hospital mortality was 1.6% (70% CL.0.2-5.3%). There were 2 late deaths. The median age at operation was 3.7 years (mean 5.6, range 1.5 to 20.3 years). There were two late failures at 2 months and 30 months after the operation, requiring take down of the Fontan in one and heart transplantation in the other. The 89% of the patients followed up are in NYHA class I or II at a mean follow up of 21.5 months (range 3-35 months). This suggests that the modified Fontan operation performed with the current patient selection criteria can be performed with a low mortality and that the early results are encouraging in the majority of the patients.
authors.affiliation: Victorian Paediatric Hospital Cardiac Surgical Unit, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Malm
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pawade
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Karl
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Mee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000502:physiology; D012086:Reoperation; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology; D016278:Ventricular Function, Right / Q000502:physiology