Stent expansion of restrictive Fontan conduits to nominal diameter and beyond.

Thomas SalaetsBjorn CoolsPieter De MeesterRuth HeyingDerize BoshoffBenedicte EyskensStephen C BrownBart MeynsFilip RegaJoeri Van Puyvelde Werner Budts Stephen Brown

Published in: Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions (2022)

ECC in some Fontan patients become smaller than nominal over time, usually without overt symptoms. The dimensions of ECC's can be safely and significantly increased to nominal or even beyond employing stenting. It allows adjustment of ECC dimensions to compensate for somatic growth.

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