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Ascites in an uncorrected tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary valve absence in an adult patient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2017

Leonel Avendaño-Perez
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Echocardiography and Non-invasive Hemodynamics, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico
Nilda Espinola-Zavaleta*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Echocardiography and Non-invasive Hemodynamics, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico
*
Correspondence to: N. Espinola-Zavaleta, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chavez, Juan Badiano N° 1, Colonia Sección XVI, Tlalpan, C. P. 14030, Ciudad de México, México. Tel: 5255 55732911; Fax: 5255 56063931; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

This is a case of a 37-year-old woman with uncorrected tetralogy of Fallot with the absence of pulmonary valve and history of heart murmur in childhood who did not have a medical approach. At 29 years of age she started with dyspnoea that in the last 7 months progressed to be of small effort and also referred increase of the abdominal perimeter.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2017 

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