What are the constituents of Fallots tetralogy and who was Fallot ?
• VSD with a right-to-left shunt. • Pulmonary stenosis (influndibular or valvular) • Right ventricular hypertrophy • Dextroposition of the aorta with it overriding the septal defect. Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot (1850-1911), Professor of Hygiene and Legal Medicine in Marseilles, published his Contribution to the pathologic anatomy of morbus coeruleus cardiac cyanosis in 1888. The tetralogy was first described by N. Stensen, Professor of Anatomy in Copenhagen, in 1672.