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We will briefly discuss the basic concepts related to traditional Fontan surgery in terms of surgical history, cavopulmonary connection physiology, and selection criteria for Fontan patients.
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Qiao, B., Li, H.J. (2018). The Basic Concepts of Traditional Fontan Surgery: Systemic and Pulmonary Circulation Shunt. In: Qiao, B., Liu, Z., Weng, Y., Yoganathan, A. (eds) Surgical Atlas of Functional Single Ventricle and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8435-5_7
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