Abstract
The review covers a 34-year the experience of Fontan operation in patients with a functionally single ventricle
of the heart in the Department of surgery in older children with congenital heart diseases Bakoulev (about
3 years) Center for Cardiovascular Surgery. Over this period of time, 526 Fontan operations were performed
in various modifications, mortality was 8.5%. All known modifications of the Fontan operation were performed,
more than half of the cases (n=293) used the extracardiac conduit, mortality was significantly lower
than in other cases – 4.7%. In this paper the most important aspects of surgical treatment of this category of
patients are highlighted, possible complications after the operation and their causes are described, and also
remote results are presented.
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About the authors
Podzolkov Vladimir Petrovich, Dr. Med. Sc., Professor, Academician of RAS, Head of Department;
orcid.org/0000-0002-2863-2072
