Case Report
A Long-Term Survivor with Tetralogy of Fallot Treated Only with the Classical Blalock-Taussig Shunt
Table 1
Previous reports in PubMed of unoperated TOF surviving over 70 years old.
| Number | Author (year) | Age | Gender | Symptom or reason of admission | Other cardiac complications |
| 1 | Thomas et al. (1987) [5] | 77 | Male | Dyspnea | Ductus arteriosus, mitral regurgitation | 2 | Fernicola et al. (1993) [6] | 74 | Male | Dyspnea | Mitral prolapse | 3 | Ishida et al. (2001) [7] | 71 | Male | Dyspnea | None | 4 | Bielik et al. (2005) [8] | 74 | Male | Syncope | None | 5 | Tanaka et al. (2005) [9] | 72 | Female | Dyspnea | None | 6 | Yang et al. (2005) [10] | 73 | Male | Dyspnea | None | 7 | Alonso et al. (2007) [11] | 86 | Male | Chest pain | Coronary artery disease | 8 | Nieves et al. (2007) [12] | 70 | Female | Dyspnea | None | 9 | Stanescu et al. (2008) [13] | 75 | Male | Dyspnea | Quadricuspid aortic valve | 10 | Subhawoang et al. (2009) [14] | 87 | Female | Cerebral infraction | None | 11 | Sousa et al. (2013) [15] | 72 | Female | Dyspnea | Endocarditis |
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