INTRODUCTION Tetralogy of Fallot is one of the most common forms of cyanotic congenital heart disease and in the absence of surgical correction it has an elevated early mortality, with most patients dying in childhood.The authors reported this case because of the unusual course of an uncorrected tetralogy of Fallot. There are only a few reports of patients with an uncorrected tetralogy of Fallo...

PURPOSE Tetralogy of Fallot is a congenital heart disease characterized by underdevelopment of the right ventricular infundibulum. Present study aimed to explore the clinic value of Tei index in assessing right ventricular function of pediatric patients with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot. METHODS A total of 45 pediatric patients with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot were recruited and classified i...

Fifteen infants with tetralogy of Fallot, who would otherwise have required a palliative operation, underwent balloon dilatation of the right ventricular outflow tract. The mean period of palliation was 8.5 months (range 0-26 months). The procedure was performed without serious complications on 88% of occasions. This preliminary study suggests that balloon dilatation may be useful in the manage...

Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease. Survival after the age of 12 years without corrective surgery is rare. We present the case of a 25 year-old man with uncorrected tetralogy of Fallot. Possible reasons for the longetivity in this patient are left ventricular hypertrophy and systemic to pulmonary shunting through internal mammary arteries.

Giant encephalocele is an uncommon congenital anomaly with very few published reports available in the English literature. Tetralogy of Fallot associated with situs inversus is also infrequently reported. To our knowledge there are no published reports of an association between giant encephalocele and Tetralogy of Fallot. The additional finding of situs inversus results in a rare pathologic tri...

Background Regional myocardial scarring in adults following Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair is associated with adverse clinical outcomes. This is the largest study to date assessing native T1 times as a marker for diffuse myocardial fibrosis in children after TOF repair. The aim of the study was to describe native T1 times patients post-TOF repair and to evaluate its relationship to clinical s...

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...

Fallot tetralojisi en sık görülen siyanotik doğumsal kalp hastalığıdır. Bu hastalarda doğum sonrası meydana gelen ani hemodinamik değişiklikler ciddi, yaşamı tehdit eden multiorgan komplikasyonlarına yol açar. Bu yüzden anestezi seçimi zordur. Otuz üç haftalık düzeltilmemiş Fallot tetralojili gebe sezeryan operasyonuna alındı. Sorunsuz bir şekilde epidural anestezi uygulandı. Hastanın vital bul...

The tetralogy of Fallot constitutes the commonest variety of cyanotic congenital heart disease found in patients surviving infancy (Wood, 1956; Keith, Rowe, and Vlad, 1958). Following the pioneer work of Lillehei and his associates (1955), the complete surgical correction of this lesion has become a standard procedure in most centres. Although Malm et al. (1963) have reported 41 consecutive pat...

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...