Experts in Heart and Organ Health After a Fontan Procedure
Many people now live long and healthy lives with their improved hearts after a Fontan procedure. However, as patients grow older, they can face unique challenges.
Our adult congenital heart disease (CHD) specialists and our team of experts across other specialties have extensive experience in recognizing and treating conditions related to the changes in the heart’s structure after a Fontan procedure.
Coordinated, Compassionate Care
You will receive comprehensive care from a broad team. Every patient is different and may require care from different doctors. We partner with many other specialists. Many come to the Fontan Management Clinic to see you. Our partners include experts in:
- Arrhythmia
- Cardiac surgery
- Diagnostic and interventional radiology
- Endocrinology (hormones)
- Gynecology
- Heart failure and transplantation
- Pulmonology
- Hepatology (liver)
- Heterotaxy
- Hematology and thrombophilia (blood clotting)
- Maternal and fetal medicine (obstetrics)
- Nephrology (kidney)
- Psychology
- Surgery
At the Cincinnati Children’s Fontan Management Clinic, we do our best to make visits easy for you. In many cases, we can schedule your appointments so that you see every doctor you need in one place during the same visit, providing coordinated, comprehensive, and compassionate care.
Ongoing Care for Congenital Conditions with a Fontan Circulation
Different types of CHD require a Fontan operation early in life. At Cincinnati Children’s, we provide lifelong treatment if you are living with a CHD and a Fontan circulation, including:
- Atrioventricular septal (or canal) defects
- Double inlet left ventricle (DILV)
- Double outlet right ventricle (DORV)
- Heterotaxy syndrome
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)
- Hypoplastic right heart
- Mitral atresia
- Pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum
- Tricuspid atresia
Conditions often repaired in other ways but which may be treated with a Fontan operation include:
- Ebstein anomaly
- Very large ventricular septal defects
