TETRALOGY OF FALLOT: REPORT OF A CASE THAT SURVIVED TO HIS FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR AND DIED FOLLOWING SURGICAL RELIEF OF GALL-STONE ILEUS
Authors: S I MILLER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1952)

Case Reports1 March 1952TETRALOGY OF FALLOT: REPORT OF A CASE THAT SURVIVED TO HIS FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR AND DIED FOLLOWING SURGICAL RELIEF OF GALL-STONE ILEUSSAM I. MILLER, M.D.SAM I. MILLER, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-36-3-901 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptPatients with Tetralogy of Fallot rarely live beyond the third decade, and only seven patients who survived beyond this age have been reported. The mean age of survival in Maude Abbott's series was 12 years.1 The reported patients2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 lived from 41 to 60 years of age.The rarity of survival of such patients to the sixth decade of life warrants recording; for this reason a patient who survived to 56 years of age and died from another cause is reported.CASE REPORTA 56 year old white man was first seen October 27, 1948, for...Bibliography1. Abbott ME: Atlas of congenital cardiac disease, 1936, American Heart Association, New York. Google Scholar2. WhiteSprague PDHB: Tetralogy of Fallot, report of a case in a noted musician who lived to his sixtieth year, J. A. M. A. 92: 787-791, 1929. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. White PD: Heart disease, 3d Ed., 1944, The Macmillan Co., New York. Google Scholar4. Strandell B: Fallot's tetralogy of unusually long duration, Svenska läk.-tidning. 36: 1513-1520, 1939. Google Scholar5. FeiginRosenthal LJ: Tetralogy of Fallot, Am. Heart J. 26: 302-312, 1943. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. MiddletonRitchie WSG: The Tetralogy of Fallot, Am. Heart J. 33: 250-253, 1947. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar7. VoliniFlaxman IFN: Tetralogy of Fallot: report of a case in a man who lived to his forty-first year, J. A. M. A. 111: 2000-2003, 1938. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. BingVandamGray RJLDFD: Physiological studies in congenital heart disease. II. Results of preoperative studies in patients with Tetralogy of Fallot, Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 8: 121-141, 1947. Google Scholar9. MayoBrown CWPW: Intestinal obstruction caused by a gall stone, Surgery 25: 924-930, 1949. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Houston, Texas*Received for publication January 14, 1950. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byProlonged survival (74 years) in unoperated tetralogy of Fallot with associated mitral valve prolapseTetralogy of FallotUNUSUAL LONGEVITY IN FALLOT'S TETRALOGY AND PSEUDOTRUNCUS ARTERIOSUSLongevity in tetralogy and trilogy of Fallot Discussion of cases in patients surviving 40 years and presentation of two further casesDas Zentralnervensystem bei Krankheiten des Herzens und der LungenPulmonary Stenosis with Left-to-Right Shunt: A Physiological Variant of Fallot's Tetralogy 1 March 1952Volume 36, Issue 3Page: 901-910 ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 March 1952 PDF downloadLoading ...