Abstract

FERNANDEZ VAZQUEZ, David  and  MELIS SUAREZ, Aneite. Anesthesia for conventional surgery in a patient with Tetralogy of Fallot. Case presentation. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2017, vol.39, n.2, pp. 346-352. ISSN 1684-1824.

The tetralogy of Fallot is the most frequent form of cyanotic congenital heart diseases presented in newborns. The disease’s four components are: abnormal alignment of intraventricular communication, right ventricle infundibular obstruction, aortic straddling of intraventricular communication, and right ventricle hypertrophy.  The case presented is a case of a frequent conventional surgery, the total abdominal hysterectomy due to a uterine myoma, in a patient, aged 43 years, suffering for tetralogy of Fallot, a little frequent situation in the daily practice. The objective is exposing the experience of the case, demanding a careful management, which was not found in the main literature sources. Anesthesia is usually used in children with this malformation to improve their life quality or it is definitively corrected; only 2 % of the patients suffering this disease that have not been surgically treated are still alive in the fourth decade of life.

Keywords : anesthesia; conventional surgery; tetralogy of Fallot; abdominal hysterectomy; female; adult.

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