BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to estimate survival and quality of outcome
and assess factors associated with outcome for patients out 5 to 15 years from their Fontan …

Patients were observed after the Fontan operation to determine the frequency and severity of
protein-losing enteropathy. A total of 427 patients who survived for 30 days after the Fontan …

OBJECTIVES.: This study sought to evaluate changes in early morbidity and mortality as
well as predictors of outcome in our most recent 339 patients undergoing modified Fontan …

The heart and lung specimens in 31 cases of pulmonary valve atresia and ventricular septal
defect were studied at autopsy. Three types of natural arterial blood supply to the lungs …

From 1975 through 1986, 49 patients with asplenia (23 patients) or polysplenia (26 patients)
syndromes underwent a modified Fontan operation. All patients had anomalous systemic …

Patients with various types of congenital heart disease were contacted 25 years after their
original examination at the Mayo Clinic. In addition to providing their current health status, …

Thirteen of 308 patients (4.2%), who had received right-sided valved extracardiac conduits
at the Mayo Clinic from November, 1972, to April, 1977, have required conduit replacement …

Unusual ventricular myocardial patterns in a child are described. These patterns, demonstrated
by angiocardiography, were associated with complex, congenital heart disease. Autopsy …

Between April 1975 and May 1995, 25 pediatric patients on one hospital service underwent
extended left ventricular septal myectomy because of hypertrophic obstructive …

Serial histologic sections of the atrioventricular (AV) conduction system were studied in four
hearts with persistent common AV canal, and the anatomic findings were related to the …