Contemporary Outcomes After the Fontan ProcedureA Pediatric Heart Network Multicenter Study
Page A.W. Anderson, MD*,*,
Lynn A. Sleeper, ScD ,
Lynn Mahony, MD ,
Steven D. Colan, MD ,
Andrew M. Atz, MD||,
Roger E. Breitbart, MD ,
Welton M. Gersony, MD¶,
Dianne Gallagher, MS ,
Tal Geva, MD ,
Renee Margossian, MD ,
Brian W. McCrindle, MD, MPH#,
Stephen Paridon, MD**,
Marcy Schwartz, MD ,
Mario Stylianou, PhD ,
Richard V. Williams, MD ,
Bernard J. Clark, III, MD** for the Pediatric Heart Network Investigators
* Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
New England Research Institutes, Watertown, Massachusetts
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
|| Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
¶ Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York
# The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
** Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
 Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Figure 1 CHQ-PF Summary Scores
The distribution of Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form (CHQ-PF) Physical and Psychosocial Summary scores from 543 children enrolled in the Pediatric Heart Network Fontan Cross-Sectional Study. The horizontal bars represent the 95% confidence interval around the historical mean score for healthy children.
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Figure 2 Mass/EDV Ratio and Diastolic Function
Histograms of echocardiographic mass to end-diastolic volume (EDV) ratio Z score and measures of diastolic function assessed from tissue Doppler techniques, by ventricular morphology. Red shaded regions indicate the 95% confidence interval for normal children ages 6 to 18 years (19). LV = left ventricular; RV = right ventricular.
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