Gynecology Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine (Aug 2011)

Obstetric Outcomes in Women with Unrepaired Tetralogy of Fallot: A Case Report

  • Burak Karadağ,
  • Yasemin Taşçı,
  • Burcu Aykan Yıldırım,
  • Ahmet Taner Turan,
  • Salim Erkaya,
  • Orhan Gelişen

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 2

Abstract

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Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart diseases and without corrective surgery, natural survival rate into the fourth decade was only about 3%. In pregnant patients with unrepaired TOF, pregnancy-related physiological changes is more difficult to tolerate compared to healthy pregnant woman. Discussed below a case of term pregnancy in a 20- year old woman with unrepaired TOF, was diagnosed at delivery.

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