A 75-Year-Old Natural Survivor with Uncorrected Tetralogy of Fallot Presenting with Hypoxic Spell
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
A 75-Year-Old Natural Survivor with Uncorrected Tetralogy of Fallot Presenting with Hypoxic Spell
Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease [1], with only a few patients reaching adulthood without surgical correction; ten percent may survive to their 30s but only 3% reach their 40s or older [2] and survival beyond the seventh decade of life is even rarer [3]. TOF comprises obstruction to right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT; pulmonary stenosis [PS]), ve...
متن کاملA case of 75-year-old survivor of unrepaired tetralogy of Fallot and quadricuspid aortic valve.
In tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease, only a few patients reach adulthood without surgical correction. We present the case of a man with TOF who survived until the age of 75 years without surgical intervention and had a very unusual combination of TOF and quadricuspid aortic valve (QAV). QAV, complicated by aortic regurgitation, is an uncommon ...
متن کاملTreatment of tetralogy of Fallot hypoxic spell with intranasal fentanyl.
We present the case of a 3-month-old girl who had unrepaired Tetralogy of Fallot who presented to the emergency department with an acute hypoxic episode. The patient was hyperpneic and cyanotic, with an initial oxygen saturation of 56%. She did not respond to knee-to-chest positioning. A single dose of intranasal fentanyl was administered with subsequent resolution of her symptoms and improveme...
متن کاملUncorrected tetralogy of Fallot in an 86-year-old patient.
This report describes the presentation and evaluation of an elderly man with uncorrected tetralogy of Fallot. The patient had remained fairly asymptomatic for much of his life. He presented to the hospital at age 86 with new-onset atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response and a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography revealed ...
متن کاملA 72-year-old woman with an uncorrected tetralogy of Fallot presenting with possible pulmonary endocarditis: a case report
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...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Ewha Medical Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2234-3180,2234-2591
DOI: 10.12771/emj.2017.40.2.94