Surgical repair of the tetralogy of Fallot is one of the most successful operations in the treatment of congenital heart diseases. We report the case of a 65-year-old man who had an aortic valve replacement at the time of complete repair of the tetralogy of Fallot at the age of forty-three. He subsequently had progressive aortic root and ascending aorta dilation to 9 cm. The aortic root and asc...

BACKGROUND Longer survival after the total repair of the Tetralogy of Fallot increases the importance of late complications such as right ventricular dysfunction. This is a prospective study of the right ventricular function in totally corrected Tetralogy of Fallot patients versus healthy children. METHODS Thirty-two healthy children were prospectively compared with 30 totally corrected Tetra...

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 ...

Abstract An 44–year–old woman was referred to our hospital for chest pain. She had no known cardiovascular risk factors but a history of previous acute pericarditis following pregnancy. At admission, she still pain improved by leaning forward. Cardiovascular examination and her electrocardiogram showed nothing pathological. On laboratory tests, there were mild elevation troponin T normal C–reac...

were confirmed in both isolated pulmonary stenosis and tetralogy of Fallot but were more marked in pulmonic stenosis. Intimal fibrosis in the pulmonary vessels on the other hand gave the impression of being greater in the cases of tetralogy of Fallot than in pulmonic stenosis even within the same age group, but this difference is not statistically significant. Intimal fibrosis was even more pro...