Fallot, Étienne-Louis-Arthur

…defects named for French physician Étienne-Louis-Arthur Fallot.

Named for French physician Étienne-Louis-Arthur Fallot, who first described it in the late 19th century, tetralogy of Fallot is the result of a combination of a defect in the ventricular septum (the partition that separates the lower chambers of the heart), pulmonary stenosis (narrowing of the opening to the…