IHJ Cardiovascular Case Reports (May 2020)

Tetralogy of Fallot and aortopulmonary window: Diagnosis and management

  • Parag Bhalgat, DM, MD,
  • Dwarkanath Kulkarni, MCh, MS,
  • Pravin Lovhale, DM,MD

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2
pp. 77 – 79

Abstract

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Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) in association with aorto pulmonary window (APW) is a very rare congenital cardiac defect. Only a handful of cases have been reported in world literature. Though TOF can be diagnosed with fair accuracy on echocardiography, APW may pose a challenge. Risk of rapid development of pulmonary hypertension is a potential hurdle in surgical correction of this defect. We wish to discuss a case of TOF with APW as well as echocardiography diagnosis and surgical management.

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