Tetralogy of Fallot with absent pulmonary valve detected by fetal echocardiography.
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.
Ohba
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan.
Matsui
K
K
Nakamura
S
S
Nishimura
K
K
Ito
M
M
Okamura
H
H
D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D011664:Pulmonary Valve / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000175:diagnosis*