Heart transplantation after Fontan: Results from a surgical Fontan cohort.

We performed a retrospective review of outcomes after heart transplantation during long-term follow-up of a surgical cohort of 1138 Fontan patients who were followed at the Mayo Clinic. Follow-up information was obtained from medical records and a clinical questionnaire that was mailed to patients not known to be deceased at the initiation of the study. Forty-four of 1138 Fontan patients with initial or subsequent evaluation at Mayo had cardiac transplantation between 1988 and 2014 (mean age at transplantation was 23.

40-Year Follow-Up After the Fontan Operation: Long-Term Outcomes of 1,052 Patients.

Background: There are limited long-term, single-cohort, follow-up studies available about patients after the Fontan operation.

Objectives: This study sought to determine the long-term outcome of all patients who had a Fontan operation at the Mayo Clinic.

Methods: Records of all patients who had a modified Fontan operation between 1973 and 2012 were reviewed.

Cardiac and multiorgan transplantation for end-stage congenital heart disease.

Objective: To report our single-center experience with patients who had cardiac and multiorgan transplantation for end-stage congenital heart disease (CHD).

Patients And Methods: We reviewed records for all patients with CHD who had undergone heart transplantation at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, from November 1, 1990, through June 30, 2012. Patients with cardiomyopathy were excluded, unless CHD was present.