Assessment of Contractility for Fontan Connections

Mert Kestelli, Sahin Bozok

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an University, Rize Training and Research Hospital, Rize, Turkey.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Izmir Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.

DOI: 10.4236/wjcs.2014.44008                

Abstract

This study is performed to investigate the effect of Fontan operations on cardiac contractility. Investigation of articles about the contractility in Fontan published in PubMed up to now revealed that the measurement of contractility values did not include the rudimentary ventricle. Connections between right atrium and right ventricle as well as right atrium and pulmonary artery were studied in the same group as well. In our opinion, for the single ventricular physiology, the RA-RV and RA-PA connected patients’ preload and afterload values cannot be calculated in the same group since volume of rudimentary ventricles must be considered from this point of view as well.

Keywords

Myocardial Contractility, Fontan Procedure, Rudimentary Ventricle, Tricuspid Atresia, Double Inlet Ventricle

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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