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An Adult Patient With a Tetralogy of Fallot Case

Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is considered the most frequent cyanotic congenital heart abnormality with a low adulthood survival rate if kept untreated. The majority of cases are symptomatic during infancy and mandate early treatment. Few instances of survival to asymptomatic middle-age patients have b...

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Autores principales: Alkashkari, Wail, Al-Husayni, Faisal, Almaqati, Ahmed, AlRahimi, Jamilah, Albugami, Saad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7769492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391897
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11658
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author Alkashkari, Wail
Al-Husayni, Faisal
Almaqati, Ahmed
AlRahimi, Jamilah
Albugami, Saad
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Al-Husayni, Faisal
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AlRahimi, Jamilah
Albugami, Saad
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description Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is considered the most frequent cyanotic congenital heart abnormality with a low adulthood survival rate if kept untreated. The majority of cases are symptomatic during infancy and mandate early treatment. Few instances of survival to asymptomatic middle-age patients have been reported, and they are decreasing due to early detection. We reported a case of a middle-aged man who was asymptomatic during his life and recently diagnosed with ToF. The patient underwent surgical repair with excellent outcomes. The case represents the possibility of diagnosing such cases in a relatively old patient despite medical development and advances.
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spelling pubmed-77694922020-12-31 An Adult Patient With a Tetralogy of Fallot Case Alkashkari, Wail Al-Husayni, Faisal Almaqati, Ahmed AlRahimi, Jamilah Albugami, Saad Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is considered the most frequent cyanotic congenital heart abnormality with a low adulthood survival rate if kept untreated. The majority of cases are symptomatic during infancy and mandate early treatment. Few instances of survival to asymptomatic middle-age patients have been reported, and they are decreasing due to early detection. We reported a case of a middle-aged man who was asymptomatic during his life and recently diagnosed with ToF. The patient underwent surgical repair with excellent outcomes. The case represents the possibility of diagnosing such cases in a relatively old patient despite medical development and advances. Cureus 2020-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7769492/ /pubmed/33391897 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11658 Text en Copyright © 2020, Alkashkari et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Alkashkari, Wail
Al-Husayni, Faisal
Almaqati, Ahmed
AlRahimi, Jamilah
Albugami, Saad
An Adult Patient With a Tetralogy of Fallot Case
title An Adult Patient With a Tetralogy of Fallot Case
title_full An Adult Patient With a Tetralogy of Fallot Case
title_fullStr An Adult Patient With a Tetralogy of Fallot Case
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title_short An Adult Patient With a Tetralogy of Fallot Case
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7769492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391897
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11658
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