Treatment of central cyanosis due to congenital heart defects may often involve surgery. For example, therapy of Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) needs surgery soon after birth.

Formerly known as Blue Baby SyndromeMedically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is a birth defect of the heart in which four conditions are happening. One, there is a hole ...

Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) falls under a broad category of heart diseases called cyanotic congenital heart diseases. And in Ghana, TOF is the commonest of these cyanotic congenital heart diseases.

If your newborn is turning blue, it is a major cause for alert as it may indicate Blue Baby Syndrome with underlying heart ...

For acyanotic (VSD and ASD) and cyanotic (TOF) subtypes, classification accuracies were 78.13 % and 80 %, respectively.

Though rare, it is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease in children. Joey's parents, Sarah and Joe Sr., discovered he had the defect while Sarah was pregnant.