Template:Did you know nominations/Francis Fontan


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:32, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Francis Fontan

 * ... that despite killing every dog that he had tried the procedure on, Francis Fontan (pictured) successfully operated on a young woman's heart in 1968? Source: This concept was explored in the experimental surgical laboratory, using dogs and extracorporeal circulation. He closed the tricuspid valve, and by-passed the right ventricle. Apart from survival in the initial few hours, all operations proved unsuccessful. The results were never published. The work itself was performed between 1964 and 1966. The ideas then remained dormant. Then, by 1968, Francis had become Chief of the Department. He was approached once more by Pierre Broustet, again concerning a young female adolescent with tricuspid atresia. The question was posed — what can be done? The initial offered were either the Blalock shunt or a Glenn procedure. But Francis then suggested the procedure tried previously, but unsuccessfully, in the dog laboratory. Despite the lack of experimental success, he was convinced it would work in the clinical setting. The patient had absence of the right atrioventricular connection, with concordant ventriculo-arterial connections, and naturally occurring pulmonary stenosis. Broustet, to his eternal credit, had sufficient confidence in the skills and judgement of his young surgical colleague to encourage him to proceed. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047951100005631

Created by PeaBrainC (talk). Self-nominated at 16:50, 11 February 2019 (UTC).