Fontan circulatory failure: a case report of re-operation treatment of vascular graft angulation stenosis
Rui Lv, Lixin Sun, Zhenglun Alan Wei, Bin Qiao, Andriana Anagnostopoulou · 2024
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Description
The Fontan operation reroutes blood for people born with a single working heart ventricle, but its conduit can fail decades later. Rui Lv and co-authors report a 32-year-old woman whose graft had bent and narrowed twenty-seven years after her surgery. She arrived breathless, with palpitations and oxygen levels well below normal. Scans showed the angulated, scarred conduit choking her circulation.
Surgeons removed the old graft and implanted a ringed replacement seated in the diaphragm. Flow speed through the new conduit nearly doubled. Her oxygen saturation rose to near normal, and her heart function reached the best grade before discharge. The authors stress that catching such conduit damage early keeps Fontan patients alive.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rui Lv, Lixin Sun, Zhenglun Alan Wei, Bin Qiao, Andriana Anagnostopoulou |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 4 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |