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J Am Coll Cardiol, 2008; 52:85-98, doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2008.01.074
© 2008 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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Contemporary Outcomes After the Fontan Procedure

A Pediatric Heart Network Multicenter Study

Page A.W. Anderson, MD*,*, Lynn A. Sleeper, ScD{dagger}, Lynn Mahony, MD{ddagger}, Steven D. Colan, MD§, Andrew M. Atz, MD||, Roger E. Breitbart, MD§, Welton M. Gersony, MD, Dianne Gallagher, MS{dagger}, Tal Geva, MD§, Renee Margossian, MD§, Brian W. McCrindle, MD, MPH#, Stephen Paridon, MD**, Marcy Schwartz, MD§, Mario Stylianou, PhD{dagger}{dagger}, Richard V. Williams, MD{ddagger}{ddagger}, Bernard J. Clark, III, MD** for the Pediatric Heart Network Investigators

* Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
{dagger} New England Research Institutes, Watertown, Massachusetts
{ddagger} 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
{dagger}{dagger} National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland
{ddagger}{ddagger} 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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