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. 1977 Jul;39(7):815–819. doi: 10.1136/hrt.39.7.815

Primary thrombosis of pulmonary artery in a child with tetralogy of Fallot.

S Svane
PMCID: PMC483322  PMID: 884033

Abstract

A 34-month-old child with tetralogy of Fallot developed an acute, primary thrombosis of the pulmonary trunk. A greatly increased haematocrit was most probably a predisposing factor. An unusual postmortem finding was the large number of extremely dilated myocardial capillaries. In a review of a series of 394 consecutive necropsy cases with many kinds of cardiac anomalies, there was only one case (a 28-year-old man) with occluding thrombus formation in the pulmonary artery. This case also belonged to the Fallot group but a subacute glomerulonephritis seemed to be the major cause of death.

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