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Sunday, March 15, 2015
Tetralogy of Fallot

Most common Cyanotic heart disease
Components:
1)Overriding of aorta
2)Pulmonary stenosis
3)Right ventricular hypertrophy
4)Ventricular septal defect
c/f depends on the degree of pulmonary stenosis
Increased risk of
Endocarditis
Systemic paradoxical embolisation
Brain abscess
Transposition of the Great Vessels:
Pulmonary arteries comes left ventricle
Aorta from right ventricle
Not compatible with life
Immediate survival dependant on shunt from left heart to right heart
25% have VSD
33% abnormal coronaries.

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