Background Tissue-engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) offer potential to overcome
limitations of current approaches for reconstruction in congenital heart disease by providing …

The prognosis for infants born with complex heart disease improved dramatically with the
introduction of the Fontan circulation 50 years ago. With today's carefully designed and …

Cardiovascular simulations have great potential as a clinical tool for planning and
evaluating patient-specific treatment strategies for those suffering from congenital heart …

The right atrium (RA) combines the superior vena cava (SVC) and inferior vena cava (IVC)
flows. Treatments like extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and hemodialysis by …

Single ventricle hearts have only one ventricle that can pump blood effectively and the
treatment requires three stages of operations to reconfigure the heart and circulatory system …

Objective: The conventional Fontan circulation deviates the superior vena cava (SVC= 1/3 of
the systemic venous return) toward the right lung (3/5 of total lung volume) and the inferior …

Purpose Patients with complex congenital heart disease may need to be converted to a
Fontan circulation with systemic venous return surgically connected to the pulmonary …

Approximately 1% of children are born with congenital heart disease. Some patients may
require surgery with staged conversion to a circulation with a univentricular heart, known as …

Historically, guidelines and practices in cardiovascular surgery have been developed
through trial-and-error in human and animal studies. Improvements in these practices …

Ventriculo-atrial shunts accounts for the second most common type of treatment for
hydrocephalus patients who require an external CSF drainage. However, the effects of this …