Your tone of voice is very gentle and patient, makes me relaxed and feel more confident that I will understand it. And I do understand it more from your video than any other! Thanks a million.
I have this condition and my parents have always been open to my questions however I didn't really understand what it was sand this video really helped
Thankyou so much! you're an amazing teacher..this is a huge favour you're doing to med students and in this field great teachers are not easy to find. Thanks indeed!
Thank you very much. I am so glad to see that the content has been helpful. I actually come back to my own videos sometimes as a refresher! Best of luck with medical school.
Great presentation!! i would like to make a correction: tetralogy is not latin word, its greek! tetra=4 at greek, logy= speaking for. Tetralogy=speaking for 4 (anatomic disorders). Keep on good work!!
It's a congenital heart condition. I'm a paramedic and EKG Technician, and I never met anyone who had tetralogoy of Fallot. I met someone who had a deviated septum in the heart though. It was a newborn baby. I used to give babies EKG's. It wasn't easy to do bc newborn babies seem to never stop moving.
I would only add that the pulmonary valve is actually further up the pulmonary trunk than shown in the picture and the pulmonary stenosis can be proximal to it (this is not always the cause). We can repair the stenosis problem and consequently the RV hypertrophy) in this case by thinning the walls of the proximal pulmonary trunk.
Got a question on this on my bio exam tomorrow, and the online info was scrambling my brain a little. Thank you for saving me and helping me to understand it!
there are a few questions i have in mind and hope to be clear by explanation. 1) Right ventricular hypertrophy happens during fetal stage or after birth? thus leading to right side heart failure? 2) Overriding aorta cause mainly by right ventricular hypertrophy or improper division of truncus arteriosus or both? Thank you for your time
+Rachel Albers i have TOF too and I am 22, The same thing happens to me, but my doctors have explained that on the scale of tof im a tad more effected then most. I hope Eveything is going well! I understand the more then likely tough journey of having it. I slept a lot more until I had my Second open heart surgery at 19 and then I just got my 3rd pacemaker now I don't sleep for 10 hours a night anymore. Fun fact hahaha
I was born with TOF had full repair like this one when i was 7 mo. and have had 3 pulnonary valve replacements(2007,2008,2009) along with 2 stents(2007&2016) the first stent failed which resulted in my 3rd valve and my second stint procedure was done last year hope it sticks with me! anyone else that's gone through this or delt with a loved one going through this you're in my thoughts and prayers!
From my understanding, the stenosis that occurs is actually narrowing due to a congenital defect that causes a larger aortic outflow and smaller pulmonary outflow. So the stenosis isn't a result of thickening but a result of thinning...
