Disruption of pulmonary valve integrity after Tetralogy of Fallot repair often results in a cascade of hemodynamic and electrophysiological abnormalities. Here we report an uncommon case of severe pulmonary regurgitation with concomitant rheumatic mitral stenosis diagnosed 25 years after primary Tetralogy of Fallot repair. A 33-year-old man presented with symptomatic palpitation and exercise in...

FIFTEEN eyanotic patients with tetralogy of Fallot were studied at various times in the operating room and during the first 3 days after intracardiae repair of tetralogy of Fallot. Similar studies have not been reported previously. The accumulated data emphasize the need for precision in accomplishing the operation; allow description of the hemodynamic state, gas exchange, and acidbase profile ...

All published autopsy cases of patients with tetralogy of Fallot who died without surgical treatment were studied to determine the life expectancy of such persons. In addition, the data from a study of persons with tetralogy alive in Denmark in 1949 were reanalyzed. The survival data from these two sources were remarkably similar, indicating that 66 percent of persons with tetralogy of Fallot n...

A 3-week-old female white Bengal Tiger cub (Panthera tigris tigris) presented with acute onset tachypnoea, cyanosis and hypothermia. The cub was severely hypoxaemic with a mixed acid-base disturbance. Echocardiography revealed severe pulmonic stenosis, right ventricular hypertrophy, high membranous ventricular septal defect and an overriding aorta. Additionally, an atrial septal defect was foun...

Received: Revised: Accepted: October 18, 2014 February 01, 2015 February 02, 2015 A 5-year-old, 5.4 kg, intact female mixed-breed dog presented with acute respiratory distress. Echocardiography showed pulmonary valvular stenosis with narrowing valvular annulus, ventricular septal defect, overriding aorta and the right ventricular hypertrophy. Other concurrent abnormality included sternal deform...

A two week old girl with tetralogy of Fallot and atrioventricular septal defect underwent palliation, for severe hypoxaemia, by balloon dilatation to the right ventricular outflow tract. This procedure was repeated once over the next eight months without complications. Serial right ventricular angiograms showed growth of the hypoplastic pulmonary ring ("annulus"), trunk, and arteries. Balloon d...

cy. Aortography was the most reliable method for identification of the AP window when a ventricular septal defect was associated. Associated features included a right aortic arch with mirror image branching in the first case and tetralogy of Fallot with muscular subaortic stenosis in the third case. In the case with the tetralogy of Fallot, the effects of pulmonary stenosis were masked by the l...