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The Fontan procedure, or Fontan/Kreutzer procedure, is a palliative surgical procedure used in children
with complete congenital heart defects.
It involves diverting the venous blood from the right atrium to the pulmonary arterieswithout passing
through the morphologic pulmonary ventricle. It was initially described in 1971 by Dr Fontan and Dr
Kreutzer separately as a surgical treatment for tricuspid atresia.Indications The Fontan procedure
hasmore recently been used in pediatric situations where an infant only has a single effective ventricle,
either due toheart valve defects (e.g. tricuspid or pulmonary atresia) or an abnormality of the pumpingability of the heart (e.g. hypoplastic left heart syndrome, hypoplastic right heart syndrome), or has
complexcongenital heart disease where a bi-ventricular repair is impossible or inadvisable. Children with
hypoplastic left heart syndrome have a single effective ventricle supplying blood to the lungs and the body
(either from birth or after an initial surgery e.g. Norwood procedure). They are delicately balanced between
inadequate blood supply to the lungs (causing cyanosis) and oversupply to the lungs (causing heart failureIn
addition, the single ventricle is doing nearly twice the expected amount of work (because it has to pump
blood for both lungs and body). As a result, these children can have trouble gaining weight, and are also
vulnerable to decompensation in the face of otherwise minor illnesses (even a common cold). Sometimes
medications (e.g. diuretics) can help them through this stage. Therefore, when either they are large
enough, and if the pressure in the pulmonary arteries is low enough, these children (see example on
http://ravinduson.yolasite.com ) are referred for Fontan procedure commonly after 2 years of life.
Contraindications
After Fontan, blood must flow through the lungs without being pumped by the heart. Therefore children
with high pulmonary vascular resistance may not tolerate a Fontan procedure. Often cardiac
catheterization is performed to check the resistance before proceeding with the surgery.
This is also the reason a Fontan procedure cannot be done immediately after birth; the pulmonary
vascular resistance is high in utero and takes months to drop.)
Types
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There are three different types of Fontan procedure:
Atriopulmonary connection (the original)
Described by Fontan and Kreutzer.
Intracardiac total cavopulmonary
connection (lateral tunnel)
Extracardiac total cavopulmonary
Connection
Approach
The first stage, also called a Bidirectional Glenn
procedure or Hemi-Fontan (see also Kawashima procedure), involves redirecting oxygen-poor blood from
the top of the body to the lungs. That is, the pulmonary arteries are disconnected from their existing blood
supply (e.g. a shunt created during a Norwood procedure, a patent ductus arteriosus, etc). The superior
vena cava (SVC), which carries blood returning from the upper body, is disconnected from the heart and
instead redirected into the pulmonary arteries. The inferior vena cava (IVC), which carries blood returning
from the lower body, continues to connect to the heart.
At this point, patients are no longer in that delicate balance, and the single ventricle is doing much less
work. They usually can grow adequately, and are less fragile. However, they still have marked hypoxia
(because of the IVC blood that is not fed into the lungs to be oxygenated). Therefore most patients are
referred for another surgery.
The second stage, also called Fontan completion, involves redirecting the blood from the IVC to the lungs
as well. At this point, the oxygen-poor blood from upper and lower body flows through the lungs without
being pumped (driven only by the pressure that builds up in the veins). This corrects the hypoxia, and
leaves the single ventricle responsible only for supplying blood to the body.
Post-operative complications
Early
children can have trouble with pleural effusions, fluid building up around the
lungs. This can require a longer stay in the hospital for drainage with chest tubes. To address this risk, some
surgeons make a fenestration (a small hole) from the venous circulation into the atrium. When the pressure
in the veins is high, some of the oxygen-poor blood can escape through the fenestration to relieve the
pressure. However, this results in hypoxia, so the fenestration may eventually need to be closed by an
interventional cardiologist.
Late Complications
Children can have trouble with atrial flutter and atrial fibrillation because of scarring in
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the atrium, especially if the connection of IVC to pulmonary arteries involved an intracardiac baffle (instead
of an extracardiac conduit). This sometimes requires treatment such as radiofrequency ablation. There are
other long-term risks, including protein-losing enteropathy and chronic renal insufficiency, although
understanding of these risks is still incomplete. Some patients require long-term blood thinners.
The Fontan procedure is palliative, not curative.
But in many cases it can result in normal
or near-normal growth, development,
exercise tolerance, and good quality of life.
In some cases, patients will eventually
require heart transplantation