High-Performing Fontan Patients: A Fontan Outcome Registry by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fontan patients exhibit decreased exercise capacity. However, there is a subset of high-performing Fontan (HPF) patients with excellent exercise capacity.

Objectives

This study aims to: 1) create a Fontan-specific percent predicted peak VO₂ tool using exercise data; 2) examine clinical factors associated with HPF patients; and 3) examine late outcomes in HPF patients.

Methods

Patients in the multi-institutional Fontan Outcomes Registry Using CMR Examination above the age of 8 years who had a maximal exercise test were included. An HPF patient was defined as a patient in the upper Fontan-specific percent predicted peak VO₂ quartile. Multivariable logistic regression was employed to investigate factors associated with the HPF and Cox reg

SUBMITTER: Alsaied T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11414658 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature