Pulmonary Venous Index as Additional Diagnostic Criteria for Fontan Palliation

Table 3

Hospital mortality causes.

	Diagnosis	Complications
1. pt.	VHS	MOF, severe pleural and abdominal effusions
2. pt.	DILV. APA	APF, SVC and RPA thrombosis, PATE
3. pt.	VHS	MOF, severe pleural and abdominal effusions, pulmonary bleeding
4. pt.	VHS	MOF, hepatic veins and PA thrombosis
5. pt.	VHS	MOF, pulmonary bleeding
6. pt.	DORV, RVH	MOF, severe pleural and abdominal effusions, pulmonary bleeding
7. pt.	VHS	CHF
8. pt.	RVHS. APA	MOF, severe pleural and abdominal effusions, pulmonary bleeding

MOF, multiorgan failure, SVC, superior vena cava, PA, pulmonary artery, DILV, double inlet left ventricle, RVHS, right ventricle hypoplasia syndrome, VHS, visceral heterotaxy syndrome, APA, atresia pulmonary artery, and APF acute pulmonary failure. RPA, right pulmonary artery, CHF, congestive heart failure, and PATE, pulmonary artery thromboembolism.