title: Tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve detected by fetal echocardiography.
abstract: The tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) with an absent pulmonary valve is a rare congenital cardiac malformation. We recorded the fetal echocardiographic findings for a fetus with the TOF with absent pulmonary valve and review the literature on this condition. The infant died 5 days after birth and the autopsy showed no infundibular stenosis. The degree of infundibular stenosis may be correlated with the prognosis of infants with this disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohba
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsui
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okamura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000175:diagnosis*