Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease worldwide [1]. Among other conotruncal abnormalities, 13-16% of Tetralogy of Fallot individuals are reported to have 22q11.2 deletion syndrome which is characterized by thymic hypoplasia, endocrine abnormalities and hypocalcaemia [2]. Individuals with micro deletion 22q11.2 deletion syndrome are prone to auto immune disord...

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...

BACKGROUND Correction of tetralogy of Fallot often leads to pulmonary regurgitation, sometimes warranting pulmonary valve replacement, for which indications and timing to achieve optimal results are not yet clear. This retrospective study describes follow-up and reinterventions in our tetralogy of Fallot population. METHODS Review of all consecutive patients operated on for tetralogy of Fallo...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To report on our initial experience with the implantation of a pulmonary valve using Nunn's technique in association with a transannular patch for the complete repair of the tetralogy of Fallot. METHODS In total, 21 patients were treated between September 2008 and February 2010. Their ages ranged from 7 months to 15 years (median 12 months) and weights from 6.8 kg ...

BACKGROUND Patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot are monitored for pulmonary regurgitation (PR) and right ventricular (RV) function. We sought to compare measures of PR and RV function on echocardiogram to those on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and to develop a new tool for assessing PR by echocardiogram. METHODS AND RESULTS Patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (n=143; 12.5±3.2 ...

BACKGROUND Previously reported pathological series suggest that cardiac malformations are universal in trisomy 18. We examined our experience of fetal echocardiography in trisomy 18 for comparison. METHODS Of 255 fetuses with trisomy 18 detected in our centre between January 1999 and June 2004, 174 were evaluated using fetal echocardiography. Our results were compared to four previous echocar...

Objective: To find out echocardiographic findings in patients with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) prior to total corrective surgery admitted at a tertiary care hospital. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Department Pediatric Cardiology, National Institute Cardiovascular Disease, Karachi. Period: January 2021 December 2021. Material & Methods: A 197 echocardiography confirmed TOF case...

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 ...