Comparison between the Early Outcome of Fallot Repair with Preservation of the Pulmonary Valve Annulus versus Transannular Patch Repair

Abstract

Background: This disease of heart is named after Fallot who correlated the pathologic and clinical manifestations of this cardiac malformation in his description of L'anatomie pathologique de la maladie bleu by 1888. He was the first to appreciate the complex of this cardiac malformation which he coined a "Tetralogy" consisting of pulmonary stenosis, Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), dextroposition of the aorta, and RV hypertrophy.