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Current treatment and prognosis in children with functionally univentricular hearts. 2005

R Kaulitz, and M Hofbeck

Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine, Tuebingen University Hospital, Germany.

For more than 30 years Fontan-type procedures have been performed for surgical treatment in patients with functionally univentricular hearts. Advances in proper patient selection, staging of the Fontan palliation, and modifications of the surgical technique resulted in continuous improvement of the surgical results during the past two decades. However, increasing experience with medium term and long term follow-up of the Fontan circulation has drawn attention to a number of sequelae and chronic complications affecting a significant number of patients.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007231	Infant, Newborn	An infant during the first 28 days after birth.	Neonate,Newborns,Infants, Newborn,Neonates,Newborn,Newborn Infant,Newborn Infants
D011379	Prognosis	A prediction of the probable outcome of a disease based on a individual's condition and the usual course of the disease as seen in similar situations.	Prognostic Factor,Prognostic Factors,Factor, Prognostic,Factors, Prognostic,Prognoses
D006330	Heart Defects, Congenital	Developmental abnormalities involving structures of the heart. These defects are present at birth but may be discovered later in life.	Congenital Heart Disease,Heart Abnormalities,Abnormality, Heart,Congenital Heart Defect,Congenital Heart Defects,Defects, Congenital Heart,Heart Defect, Congenital,Heart, Malformation Of,Congenital Heart Diseases,Defect, Congenital Heart,Disease, Congenital Heart,Heart Abnormality,Heart Disease, Congenital,Malformation Of Heart,Malformation Of Hearts
D006352	Heart Ventricles	The lower right and left chambers of the heart. The right ventricle pumps venous BLOOD into the LUNGS and the left ventricle pumps oxygenated blood into the systemic arterial circulation.	Cardiac Ventricle,Cardiac Ventricles,Heart Ventricle,Left Ventricle,Right Ventricle,Left Ventricles,Right Ventricles,Ventricle, Cardiac,Ventricle, Heart,Ventricle, Left,Ventricle, Right,Ventricles, Cardiac,Ventricles, Heart,Ventricles, Left,Ventricles, Right
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D016896	Treatment Outcome	Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.	Rehabilitation Outcome,Treatment Effectiveness,Clinical Effectiveness,Clinical Efficacy,Patient-Relevant Outcome,Treatment Efficacy,Effectiveness, Clinical,Effectiveness, Treatment,Efficacy, Clinical,Efficacy, Treatment,Outcome, Patient-Relevant,Outcome, Rehabilitation,Outcome, Treatment,Outcomes, Patient-Relevant,Patient Relevant Outcome,Patient-Relevant Outcomes
D018610	Heart Bypass, Right	Diversion of the flow of blood from the entrance to the right atrium directly to the pulmonary arteries, avoiding the right atrium and right ventricle (Dorland, 28th ed). This a permanent procedure often performed to bypass a congenitally deformed right atrium or right ventricle.	Bypass, Right Heart,Cavopulmonary Anastomosis,Right Heart Bypass,Anastomosis, Cavopulmonary,Cavopulmonary Shunt,Shunt, Cavopulmonary,Anastomoses, Cavopulmonary,Bypasses, Right Heart,Cavopulmonary Anastomoses,Cavopulmonary Shunts,Heart Bypasses, Right,Right Heart Bypasses,Shunts, Cavopulmonary
D018729	Fontan Procedure	A procedure in which total right atrial or total caval blood flow is channeled directly into the pulmonary artery or into a small right ventricle that serves only as a conduit. The principal congenital malformations for which this operation is useful are TRICUSPID ATRESIA and single ventricle with pulmonary stenosis.	Fontan Circuit,Fontan Circulation,Fontan Operation,Fontan Palliation,Hemi-Fontan Procedure,Bidirectional Cavopulmonary Shunt,Bidirectional Glenn Procedure,Bidirectional Glenn Shunt,Norwood Procedure, Stage 2,Norwood Procedure, Stage 3,Norwood Procedure, Stage II,Norwood Procedure, Stage III,Stage 2 Norwood Procedure,Stage 3 Norwood Procedure,Stage II Norwood Procedure,Stage III Norwood Procedure,Bidirectional Cavopulmonary Shunts,Bidirectional Glenn Procedures,Bidirectional Glenn Shunts,Cavopulmonary Shunt, Bidirectional,Circuit, Fontan,Circulation, Fontan,Glenn Procedure, Bidirectional,Glenn Shunt, Bidirectional,Hemi Fontan Procedure,Operation, Fontan,Palliation, Fontan,Procedure, Bidirectional Glenn,Procedure, Fontan,Procedure, Hemi-Fontan,Shunt, Bidirectional Cavopulmonary