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Cognitive function in adults with Fontan palliation versus acyanotic CHD patients and association with health-related quality of life.

Julia RemmeleMilka PringsheimNicole NagdymanRenate Oberhoffer-FritzPeter Ewert
Published in: Cardiology in the young (2022)
Interestingly, our study results in adult Fontan patients showed that it is possible to live an adult life with normal cognitive function and good health-related quality of life with a univentricular heart. Thus, this study could be a guidepost for more in-depth studies on cognitive function in Fontan survivors. In addition, the focus should be on health-related quality of life of adult CHD with simple CHD in particular, since a reduced health-related quality of life is not only medically based.
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