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Fontan Procedure

Medical Definition: 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.
Also Called: Hemi-Fontan Procedure
Previously Indexed: Heart Defects, Congenital/surgery (1977-1994)

Fontan Procedure Medical Definitions and Terms

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