Successful single-lung fontan operation in an adult: 5-year follow-up.
We report a case of a 20-year-old man with a functional single left ventricle who underwent a successful Fontan operation into a single left pulmonary artery, the right pulmonary artery being atretic. The literature of a single-lung Fontan procedure is also reviewed.
Al-Khaldi
Abdulaziz
A
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Chedrawy
Edgar G
EG
Tchervenkov
Christo I
CI
Shum-Tim
Dominique
D
D000328:Adult; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D018729:Fontan Procedure / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D018633:Pulmonary Atresia / Q000601:surgery*; D012074:Remission Induction; D013997:Time Factors