Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease. Corrective surgery indicated during infancy for best outcome, however, due to poor availability and affordability surgery, many children resource-poor settings live with uncorrected tetralogy Fallot. They suffer from dreaded complications like brain abscess, in later years life. We report 3 cases who developed abscess the...

conclusions using a single postsurgical dose of methylprednisolone does not significantly alter the clinical outcome after repairing tetralogy of fallot. results the only significant differences were lower incidence of bacteremia and higher incidence of hyperglycemia in the group who were used methylprednisolone. patients and methods one hundred children who underwent total repair of tetralogy ...

we report two cases of tetralogy of fallot with pulmonary valve bacterial endocarditis where one extended to the branch of pulmonary artery (pa). this is a rare occurrence. aggressive supportive care plus early and radical surgery can be life saving.

a 22-year-old woman presented with acute left-sided pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea 6 days after surgery for revision of the stenotic central aortopulmonary shunt. she had a history of tetralogy of fallot (tof), pulmonary valve stenosis, ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral artery. her waterston shunt was placed when she was 5 years old and stented and re-dilated after...

Background Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease. However, its pathogenesis remains to be clarified. The purpose of this study was to identify the genetic variants in Tetralogy of Fallot by whole exome sequencing. Methods Whole exome sequencing was performed among eight small families with Tetralogy of Fallot. Differential single nucleotide polymorphisms and...

Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease. A 47-year-old woman presented to our clinic with cyanosis and dyspnea on exertion. She had previously had three successful and healthy pregnancies. From the results of laboratory and imaging techniques a diagnosis of tetralogy of Fallot was made and the patient was referred to the cardiovascular surgery for the repa...