CONVERSION OF THE MODIFIED FONTAN OPERATION TO TOTAL CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION - A TREATMENT FOR PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHY

Authors
STAFANGER G PETTERSSON G JACOBSEN JR
Citation
G. Stafanger et al., CONVERSION OF THE MODIFIED FONTAN OPERATION TO TOTAL CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION - A TREATMENT FOR PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHY, Cardiology in the young, 7(3), 1997, pp. 344-346
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics,"Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Cardiology in the young → ACNP
ISSN journal
10479511
Volume
7
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
344 - 346
Database
ISI
SICI code
1047-9511(1997)7:3<344:COTMFO>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
We describe a patient with tricuspid atresia who, after a Fontan opera tion three years earlier, presented with severe protein-losing enterop athy. After conversion to a cavopulmonary connection, the symptoms reg ressed and substitution with albumin and immunoglobulin was no longer required.