This chapter brings us to a “Strange Operation”—the Fontan procedure, first applied to patients with tricuspid atresia. But first we learn about the development of cardiac catheterization and Nobel prize winning trio Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards, and André F. Cournand. Other contributors to right ventricle bypass operations are reviewed.

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Strange Operation—Fontan

  • Thomas J. Kulik,
  • Macdonald Dick

摘要

This chapter brings us to a “Strange Operation”—the Fontan procedure, first applied to patients with tricuspid atresia. But first we learn about the development of cardiac catheterization and Nobel prize winning trio Werner Forssmann, Dickinson W. Richards, and André F. Cournand. Other contributors to right ventricle bypass operations are reviewed.