Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), formerly known as Steno-Fallot tetralogy, is a congenital heart defect characterized by four specific cardiac defects. Classically...
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Cardiology (section Tetralogy of Fallot)
by the anastomosis of the systemic artery to the pulmonary artery and called this the Blalock-Taussig Shunt. Tetralogy of Fallot, pulmonary atresia,...
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Professor of Hygiene and Legal Medicine in Marseille. In 1888 Fallot described in detail the four anatomical characteristics of tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital...
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Right-to-left shunt (section Tetralogy of Fallot)
truncus arteriosus (minimal cyanosis) Transposition of great vessels Tricuspid atresia Tetralogy of Fallot Total anomalous pulmonary venous return A mnemonic...
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Squatting position (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
tetralogy of Fallot will often instinctively squat during a "tet spell" (an episode involving a sudden development of blue skin, caused by a drop of oxygen...
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tetralogy of Fallot or pulmonary valve atresia, result in less blood becoming oxygenated. There are also cardiac conditions such as transposition of the...
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Alfred Blalock (category Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences)
surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of Fallot – commonly known as blue baby syndrome. He created, with...
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the lungs in some forms of congenital heart disease such as pulmonary atresia and tetralogy of Fallot, which are common causes of blue baby syndrome. The...
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first two of these are also found in the more common tetralogy of Fallot. However, the tetralogy has a ventricular septal defect instead of an atrial...
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surgical solution to a complex and fatal four-part heart anomaly called tetralogy of Fallot (also known as blue baby syndrome, although other cardiac anomalies...
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Cardiac surgery (redirect from History of cardiac surgery)
often associated with Tetralogy of Fallot. Many thousands of these "blind" operations were performed until the introduction of cardiopulmonary bypass...
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Congenital heart defect (redirect from Congenital malformations of heart)
which has extensive symptoms including defects of the cardiac outflow tract including tetralogy of Fallot. The notch signaling pathway, a regulatory mechanism...
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(emphysema) Cardiovascular system: Congenital heart disease (e.g., Tetralogy of Fallot, right to left shunts in heart or great vessels) Heart failure Valvular...
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coarctation. Another example is Blalock–Taussig anastomosis for treatment of tetralogy of Fallot. The procedure involves dividing the subclavian artery and reconnecting...
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of blood to the lungs. Though it is usually associated with congenital heart diseases with decreased pulmonary blood flow, like tetralogy of Fallot or...
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[VSD], atrial septal defect [ASD], patent ductus arteriosus [PDA], tetralogy of Fallot). Infertility is not associated with Cri du chat. It has also been...
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thereby reducing the amount of oxygen delivered to the tissues. It is one of the four findings in the classic tetralogy of Fallot. The other three findings...
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Paul Rutherford Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tetralogy. If an internal...
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Infundibulum (heart) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918))
known as tetralogy of Fallot. A tendinous band extends upward from the right atrioventricular fibrous ring and connects the posterior surface of the infundibulum...
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significantly increased risk of birth defects overall, although it does increase the odds ratio of tetralogy of Fallot, but the absolute risk is still...
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Emphysema (category Health effects of tobacco)
ventricular septal defect, and tetralogy of Fallot. Although CLE may be caused by the abnormal development of bronchi, or compression of airways by nearby tissues...
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Helen B. Taussig (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
cyanosis (blue-tinged appearance), often caused by the heart defect Tetralogy of Fallot. Cyanosis is caused when insufficient oxygenated blood is circulating...
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Christiaan Barnard (category Academic staff of the University of Cape Town)
the Tetralogy of Fallot and Ebstein's anomaly. He was promoted to Professor of Surgical Science in the Department of Surgery at the University of Cape...
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atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, and tetralogy of Fallot. Congenital anomalies of the nervous system include neural tube defects such as...
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Pulmonary bay (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from April 2024)
pulmonary artery. Pulmonary bay is most commonly associated with tetralogy of Fallot, however it may also be seen in other conditions where there is a...
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teratoma Spina bifida Spinal dysraphism Syndactyly Tetralogy of Fallot Thanatophoric dwarfism Transposition of the great vessels Triploidy Trisomy 13 Trisomy...
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depth Time-of-flight mass spectrometry uses the time of flight of an ion in the gas phase to resolve its mass-to-charge ratio Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital...
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the congenital heart defect of Tetralogy of Fallot, also known as Blue Baby Syndrome, and in so doing they open the field of heart surgery. Helen Taussig...
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Nail clubbing (redirect from Clubbing of fingers)
cause) Subacute bacterial endocarditis Atrial myxoma (benign tumor) Tetralogy of Fallot Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary: Malabsorption Crohn's disease...
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methylcytosine dioxygenase 1, or TET1, an enzyme Tetrachloride Tetrahedron Tetralogy of Fallot Tet (Morris Louis painting), a 1958 painting Tet, enormous tetrahedral...
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