title: [Fallot, Blalock and Taussig - the 'blue babies' odyssey].
abstract: 120 years ago, Louis Fallot described a congenital heart malformation consisted of a special constellation. This was a cyanotic malformation, hence the term 'the blue baby syndrome'. In 1949 there was a first trial of correction of tetralogy of Fallot by joining pulmomary artery with subclavial artery. This vessels connection was fixed in medical terminology as Blalock-Taussig shunt.
authors.forename: Magdalena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mazurak
mesh_terms: D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000266:history*; D003490:Cyanosis / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000601:surgery; D013348:Subclavian Artery / Q000601:surgery; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery