Antoine Fakhry AbdelMassih, Laszlo Kiraly, Hazem El Badaoui, Mohammad Khan, Balazs Hetharsi, Judit Noemi Till, Aleksandr Y Omelchenko, Alaa Ziad Salah, Farah Tarik Al Jburi, Laila Alkhouli, Mina Taher, Najah Alhosani, Omnia Youssef, Sumaiya Iqbal, Zahraa Allami, Neerod Kumar Jha, Eman Mahmoud Hamad, Yasmin Omar, Arshad Khan, Zafar Azeez, Michael Attia, Mariam Mina, Alyaa Al Ali, Yara Khaled Afifi, Meryam El Shershaby, Afnan Musleh
BACKGROUND: The Fontan procedure is the final stage of a three-stage palliation process in patients born with a univentricular heart as part of hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) or other pathologies with a univentricular heart. As essential as this procedure has proven to be for such cases, the Fontan physiology diminishes cardiac output and expands systemic venous pressure, which then leads to venous congestion that can be complicated by protein-losing enteropathy (PLE). This retrospective study aimed to identify the predictors of such complications in all patients who underwent completion of the Fontan procedure at our center (Sheikh Khalifa Medical City/SKMC) in the past eight years...
August 1, 2023: Global Cardiology Science & Practice