We present a case of schizophrenia comorbid for tetralogy of Fallot, without chromosome 22q.11.2 deletion or duplication, treated successfully with a combination of clozapine and antiepileptic drugs. Although clozapine by itself initially triggered convulsive seizures, we continued it with co-administration of valproate and topiramate. This combined treatment did not affect cardiac function of ...

Fourty-three operations were performed on a total of 41 patients consisting of atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, ventricular septal defect with pulmonary stenosis, tetralogy of Fallot, aortic valve stenosis, pulmonary valve stenosis and coarctation of the aorta under hypothermia using intrathoracic rewarming. All patients but 2 cases with tetralogy Fallot have been completely cur...

Right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) aneurysm is a known complication of tetralogy of Fallot repair when a ventriculotomy is done. It leads to RV dysfunction and may require re-operation. We describe a rare instance of a patient who developed an RVOT aneurysm after trans-ventricular repair of tetralogy of Fallot, which was complicated with the formation of a thrombus in the aneurysm sac. The ...

Two cases of asymptomatic double aortic arch with tetralogy of Fallot are reported. One presented with a non-dominant left arch and left-sided descending thoracic aorta and the other with a non-dominant left arch, a right-sided descending thoracic aorta and a patent ductus arteriosus. One-stage operation was performed and both patients were discharged free of symptoms and signs related to the d...

Anomalies of origin, course, and distribution of coronary arteries, including single coronary artery, are well known in patients with Tetralogy of Fallot. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no published case report of Pentalogy of Fallot with a single coronary artery. Herein, we introduce a 22-year-old female patient diagnosed via echocardiography and cardiac catheterization preope...

Using a quantitative microscopic technique, we quantitated right and left ventricular interstitial tissue space vs. myocardial fiber space in 4 groups of autopsied hearts: 1) 5 normal hearts; 2) 5 hearts from infants _??_ 2 years old with tetralogy of Fallot; 3) 10 hearts from children 21/2-13 years old with tetralogy of Fallot, and 4) 5 hearts from adult patients _??_20 years old with tetralog...

Right ventricular outflow tract obstruction was suspected in a 32-year-old man with repaired tetralogy of Fallot and borderline indications for surgical. heart catheterisation dobutamine stress test useful assessing the dynamics severity right determining treatment strategy.

The considerable body of clinical and physiologic data in patients with the tetralogy of Fallot that has been accumulated over the past 15 years now indicates that the original concept of the lesion as a single, fairly narrowly limited entity is no longer valid. The tetralogy can now be demonstrated to occupy a broad spectrum in the field of congenital cardiac anomalies, representing widely var...

Hearts with Fallot's tetrad from 33 children dying at the age from 14 days to 8 years were studied. Analysis of the morphological features of the defect revealed its typical anatomic signs: anteroleft shift of conic septum (oblique orientation); reorientation of the structures of inflow and outflow parts of the right ventricle infundibular pulmonary stenosis the occurrence of which may be due t...