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Tetralogy of Fallot: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
Author(s) -
WiseFaberowski Lisa,
Asija Ritu,
McElhinney Doff B.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pediatric anesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1460-9592
pISSN - 1155-5645
DOI - 10.1111/pan.13569
Subject(s) - tetralogy of fallot , medicine , right ventricular hypertrophy , cardiology , ventricular outflow tract , heart disease , pulmonary hypertension
Summary Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) has four anatomic features: right ventricular hypertrophy (RVH), ventriculoseptal defect (VSD), overriding aorta and right ventricular outflow tract obstruction (RVOT) with an occurrence of 3.9 /10,000 births. The pathophysiologic effects in TOF are largely determined by the degree of RVOT and not the VSD. Intra‐operative anesthetic management is also dependent on the degree of RVOT obstruction and influenced by the extent of surgical RVOT repair.