TY  - EJOU
AU  - Akintoye, Emmanuel 
AU  - Veldtman, Gruschen R. 
AU  - Miranda, William R. 
AU  - Connolly, Heidi M. 
AU  - Egbe, Alexander C. 

TI  - Optimum age for performing Fontan operation in patients with univentricular heart
T2  - Structural and Congenital Heart Disease

PY  - 2019
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
SN  - 3071-1738

AB  - The purpose of this study was to determine the optimal age for performing Fontan 
operation using data from the National Inpatient Sample. Our results showed that 
although the Fontan operation was most commonly performed at age 2 in the United 
States, age 3 is the optimum age for this procedure as evident by lower rate of in‐hospital mortality, procedure‐related complications, and rate of nonroutine home discharge when procedure is performed at age 3 years.
KW  - 

DO  - 10.1111/chd.12690