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Chapter 17 - Under a Spell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Catia Pinto  and
Miriam Fine-Goulden
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A 2-month-old baby has presented to A&E at her local district general hospital with severe frequent episodes of cyanosis. She had been diagnosed antenatally with Tetralogy of Fallot and was known to the tertiary hospital paediatric cardiology team.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 89 - 93
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Apitz, C, Anderson, RH, Redington, AN. Tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary stenosis. In: Anderson, RH, Baker, EJ, Penny, D, et al. (eds). Pediatric Cardiology 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone, 2010:753–73.Google Scholar
Fanous, E, Mogyorosy, G. Does the prophylactic and therapeutic use of beta-blockers in preoperative patients with tetralogy of Fallot significantly prevent and treat the occurrence of cyanotic spells? Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2017;25:647–50.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Leung, AKC, Leung, AAM, Wong, AHC, Lon, KHL. Breath-holding spells in paediatrics: a narrative review of the current evidence. Curr Pediatr Rev 2019;15:22–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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