Impact of Fenestration on Survival and Morbidity Following Fontan Surgery: A Time-to-Event Meta-Analysis of Reconstructed Kaplan–Meier Data
World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
Published online on June 25, 2026
Abstract
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IntroductionThe Fontan procedure revolutionized single-ventricle palliation by enabling passive pulmonary blood flow. Fenestration, an atrial-level shunt, reduces early postoperative complications by decompressing the circuit but causes systemic ...
IntroductionThe Fontan procedure revolutionized single-ventricle palliation by enabling passive pulmonary blood flow. Fenestration, an atrial-level shunt, reduces early postoperative complications by decompressing the circuit but causes systemic ...