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Parametric Investigation of an Injection-Jet Self-Powered Fontan Circulation
2021-09-16
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Rationale Approximately 1/2500 babies are born with only one functioning ventricle and the Fontan is the third and, ideally final staged palliative operation for these patients. This altered circulation is prone to failure with survival rates below 50% into adulthood in some series. Chronically elevated inferior vena cava (IVC) pressure is implicated as one cause of the mortality and morbidity in this population....
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- Literature Corpus work
- 60f41cda-bb34-5499-b701-494578847074
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-825168/v1
