F Fontán

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

F Fontán is a scholar working on Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, F Fontán has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Surgery, 24 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 24 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in F Fontán's work include Congenital Heart Disease Studies (20 papers), Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (14 papers) and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (10 papers). F Fontán is often cited by papers focused on Congenital Heart Disease Studies (20 papers), Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair (14 papers) and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (10 papers). F Fontán collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Italy. F Fontán's co-authors include E Baudet, Guy Fernandez, Francisco de Assis Costa, Eugene H. Blackstone, Francesco Paolo Tritto, Claude Deville, A Choussat, Jaap Ottenkamp, David C. Naftel and Friedhelm Beyersdorf and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and The American Journal of Cardiology.

In The Last Decade

F Fontán

49 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Surgical repair of tricus... 1971 2026 1989 2007 1971 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Surgical repair of tricuspid atresia
    1971 2.0k citations F Fontán, E Baudet profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
F Fontán 3.0k 2.3k 1.8k 1.8k 667 53 3.9k
E Baudet 2.4k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 1.7k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 363 0.5× 67 3.3k
Miralem Pašić 1.5k 0.5× 1.9k 0.8× 2.0k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 816 1.2× 141 3.4k
Ralph S. Mosca 2.7k 0.9× 2.4k 1.0× 1.3k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 1.0k 1.5× 137 4.1k
Kenneth E. Fellows 1.7k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 1.8k 1.0× 207 0.3× 80 2.9k
David T. Balzer 2.0k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 1.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 576 0.9× 99 2.9k
Anees J. Razzouk 931 0.3× 1.9k 0.8× 978 0.6× 813 0.5× 671 1.0× 120 2.5k
Emré Belli 2.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 1.4k 0.8× 1.6k 0.9× 292 0.4× 127 2.8k
Philip J. Spevak 1.8k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 2.7k 1.5× 1.9k 1.1× 209 0.3× 67 4.3k
James R. Zuberbuhler 2.9k 1.0× 1.9k 0.8× 1.6k 0.9× 2.2k 1.3× 208 0.3× 116 3.7k
Farouk S. Idriss 2.6k 0.9× 2.1k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 2.4k 1.4× 259 0.4× 114 3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by F Fontán

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of F Fontán

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of F Fontán. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of F Fontán based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with F Fontán. F Fontán is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Athanasuleas, Constantine L., Gerald D. Buckberg, Alfred W.H. Stanley, et al.. (2005). Surgical Ventricular Restoration: The RESTORE Group Experience. Heart Failure Reviews. 9(4). 287–297. 63 indexed citations
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Athanasuleas, Constantine L., Gerald D. Buckberg, Alfred W.H. Stanley, et al.. (2004). Surgical ventricular restoration in the treatment of congestive heart failure due to post-infarction ventricular dilation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 44(7). 1439–1445. 300 indexed citations
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Marcelletti, Carlo, Frank L. Hanley, Constantine Mavroudis, et al.. (2000). Revision of previous Fontan connections to total extracardiac cavopulmonary anastomosis: A multicenter experience. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 119(2). 340–346. 109 indexed citations
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Fontán, F. (2000). John Webster Kirklin: consummate cardiac surgeon and scientist. Cardiology in the Young. 10(4). 332–339. 3 indexed citations
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Fontán, F, et al.. (1994). The effect of reperfusion pressure on early outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 107(1). 265–270. 1 indexed citations
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Fontán, F, et al.. (1994). The effect of reperfusion pressure on early outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting:. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 107(1). 265–270. 5 indexed citations
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Allen, Bradley S., Gerald D. Buckberg, F Fontán, et al.. (1993). Superiority of controlled surgical reperfusion versus percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in acute coronary occlusion. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 105(5). 864–884. 63 indexed citations
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Laborde, F, et al.. (1993). A new video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical technique for interruption of patent ductus arteriosus in infants and children. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 105(2). 278–280. 146 indexed citations
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Fontán, F, et al.. (1992). Modifying myocardial management in cardiac surgery: a randomized trial. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 6(3). 127–137. 23 indexed citations
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Roudaut, R, X. Marcaggi, Claude Deville, et al.. (1992). Value of transesophageal echocardiography combined with computed tomography for assessing repaired type A aortic dissection. The American Journal of Cardiology. 70(18). 1468–1476. 11 indexed citations
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Fontán, F. (1990). Transplantation of knowledge. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 99(3). 387–395. 26 indexed citations
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Fernandez, Guy, et al.. (1990). Therapeutic use of right atrial pressures early after the Fontan operation. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 4(1). 2–7. 17 indexed citations
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Fernández, C., F Fontán, Claude Deville, Francesco Madonna, & Dominique Thibaud. (1989). Long-term evaluation of direct repair of traumatic isthmic aortic transection. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 3(4). 327–334. 8 indexed citations
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Fontán, F, Guy Fernandez, David C. Naftel, et al.. (1989). The size of the pulmonary arteries and the results of the Fontan operation. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 98(5). 711–724. 120 indexed citations
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Roudaut, R, Marc‐Alain Billes, Philippe Gosse, et al.. (1988). Accuracy of m‐mode and two‐dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of aortic dissection: An experience with 128 cases. Clinical Cardiology. 11(8). 553–562. 34 indexed citations
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Vaislic, Claude, A Thévenet, F Fontán, et al.. (1986). Cancer of the kidney invading the vena cava and heart. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 91(4). 604–609. 30 indexed citations
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Ottenkamp, Jaap, Arnold C. G. Wenink, Jan M. Quaegebeur, et al.. (1985). Tricuspid atresia. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 89(4). 597–603. 7 indexed citations
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Fontán, F, et al.. (1984). Aortic valve homografts in the surgical treatment of complex cardiac malformations. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 87(5). 649–657. 53 indexed citations
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Fontán, F, et al.. (1983). Repair of tricuspid atresia in 100 patients. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 85(5). 647–660. 142 indexed citations
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Fontán, F, et al.. (1978). [Traumatic rupture of the aortic isthmus. Surgical repair. Results (author's transl)].. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 104(1). 38–43. 1 indexed citations

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