Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Tetralogy of Fallot with rheumatic mitral stenosis: A case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Tetralogy of Fallot with rheumatic mitral stenosis A case report Cheemalapati Sai Krishna 1 Gangireddy Venkateswara Reddy12 Mohan Debta13 and Nanda Kishore Panigrahi13 Address Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Apollo Heart Institute Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh India 2Department of Cardiology King George Hospital Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh India and 3Department of Cardiology Apollo Heart Institute Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh India Email Cheemalapati Sai Krishna - csaikrishna@ Gangireddy Venkateswara Reddy - drgvreddy57@ Mohan Debta - dr_mohan_debta@ Nanda Kishore Panigrahi - nandakishorepanigrahi@ Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 28 April 2008 Received 5 September 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 127 doi 1752-1947-2-127 Accepted 28 April 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 127 2008 Krishna et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Rheumatic and congenital heart diseases account for the majority of hospital admissions for cardiac patients in India. Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common congenital heart disease with survival to adulthood. Infective endocarditis accounts for 4 of admissions to a specialized unit for adult patients with a congenital heart lesion. This report is unique in that a severe stenotic lesion of the mitral valve probably of rheumatic aetiology was noted in an adult male with Tetralogy of Fallot. Case presentation An unusual association of rheumatic mitral stenosis in an adult Indian male patient aged 35 years with Tetralogy of Fallot and subacute bacterial endocarditis of .
