Tetralogy of Fallot is a congenital cardiac disease characterized by the presence of hypoxemia because of the pulmonary stenosis and the ventricular septal defect. The symptom in the animal is cianosis. Actually, there are many diagnostic methods of this affection. There are many treatments for Tetralogy of Fallot, such as the medicamentosus treatment and the definitive surgical correction, reparing the cardiac defects. The most used is the palliative surgical treatment, creating systemic-pulmonar shunt. The most famous surgical method is the Blalock-Taussig surgery, when the surgeon creates a communication between the aorta and pulmonary artery, using the left subclavian artery.
cardiac surgery; Tetralogy of Fallot; dog
