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Editorial
. 2024 Oct 9;11(2):e002911.
doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2024-002911.

Celebrating motherhood after Fontan operation: a difficult and distant dream?

Justin Paul Gnanaraj  1 , Steaphen Anne Princy  2
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Editorial

Celebrating motherhood after Fontan operation: a difficult and distant dream?

Justin Paul Gnanaraj et al. Open Heart. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Epidemiology; Fontan Procedure; Heart Defects, Congenital.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1. Pregnancies after Fontan operation: morphology of systemic ventricle in studies.
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