Fontan in Bangladesh
The Fontan procedure is a surgical procedure that separates oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor blood, but it does not restore natural circulation. The two lower heart chambers (ventricles), for example, serve as pumps in a normal heart, with one ventricle pumping blood to the body and the other pumping blood to the lungs. Only one chamber pumps blood after the Fontan operation, and it must be powerful enough to draw blood from the lungs into the heart and then pump it back to the body.