In a series of 416 women with congenital heart disease seen in the Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London, and the Hospital Giovanni Bosco, Torino, Italy, there were 822 pregnancies. The outcomes of 96 pregnancies in 44 patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease were studied. Patients with the Eisenmenger reaction were excluded. Patients were divided arbitrarily into group...

In a series of 416 women with congenital heart disease seen in the Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospital, London, and the Hospital Giovanni Bosco, Torino, Italy, there were 822 pregnancies. The outcomes of 96 pregnancies in 44 patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease were studied. Patients with the Eisenmenger reaction were excluded. Patients were divided arbitrarily into group...

Background:Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the commonest of all congenital lesions and most common type among children. Congenital disease, in a definition proposed by Mitchell et al gross structural abnormality or intrathoracic great vessels that actually potentially functional significance. It cause major anomalies, representing global health problem. Twenty-eight percent anomalies consist ...

Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease. Patients who have undergone surgical repair ToF constitute one largest groups disease patients surviving into adulthood. The history techniques has evolved through years, starting from early 1930s. In this context, many leading figures are acknowledged as pioneers in cardiothoracic surgery. There struggled to obtain...

Only some fifty cases of gangrene in infants have been recorded in the literature, and the vast majority of these have occurred in the neonatal period (Dohan, 1934). The onset of gangrene after this period may be in association with severe infections (Watkins, 1938) or congenital heart disease (Gross, 1945). Current interest in cyanotic congenital heart disease warrants recording a case with th...