By the time he was 27, Collins had already undergone 10 heart surgeries, including a Fontan procedure when he was 12. Most people live another 30 years or more after the Fontan surgery ...

The Fontan operation is the current standard of care for single‐ventricle congenital heart disease. Almost all patients with Fontan operation develop liver fibrosis at a young age, known as ...

most commonly the Norwood procedure, bidirectional cavopulmonary shunt, and Fontan procedures. With recent advances in surgical management of HLHS patients, high survival rates are now obtained at ...

Thirteen-year-old Marshall Fee of Scottdale is the rare person who will celebrate a birthday twice in one year. While his ...

3, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany; michael.hofbeckmed.uni-tuebingen.de For more than 30 years Fontan-type procedures have been performed for surgical treatment in patients with functionally univentricular ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday called his military’s operation in Kursk Oblast a success, as the last remnants of Kyiv’s forces leave the Russian territory they have occupied ...

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If nonsurgical treatments don’t help, you may need surgery. Sleep apnea causes your breathing to periodically stop while you’re sleeping. This is related to the relaxation of the muscles in ...