Successful use of the total artificial heart in the failing Fontan circulation.
Typical left ventricular assist devices are often ineffective for the failing Fontan circulation. We report the first successful use of a total artificial heart as a bridge to transplant in a patient who had previously undergone a Fontan operation.
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: rossanoj@email.chop.edu.
Joseph W
JW
Rossano
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
David J
DJ
Goldberg
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Stephanie
S
Fuller
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Chitra
C
Ravishankar
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Lisa M
LM
Montenegro
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Cardiac Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
J William
JW
Gaynor
D000293:Adolescent; D018729:Fontan Procedure; D006354:Heart, Artificial; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012074:Remission Induction; D017211:Treatment Failure