Single ventricle care: challenges, successes and the future in a single center program.

ABSTRACT: Congenital cardiac surgery has advanced considerably over the last 4 decades with improvements in virtually every aspect of care. Technical procedures are well described in literature and taught globally while expected results are published in databases such as the Society of Thoracic Surgery (STS) and European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Outcomes have progressed from uncertain survival to expected program mortalities of nearly 2%. This has been driven in part by advances in surgical technique, but also incremental improvements in the entire patient care pathway. Single ventricles (SVs) remain one of our most challenging cohorts of patients and our most resource intensive. Although outcomes have improved in the past decades, overall morbidity and mortality exceeds that

SUBMITTER: Ganta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12552168 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature