Pediatr Cardiol DOI
10.1007/s00246-007-9186-8
ŇTetralogy of
FallotÓ and Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot
Author
William N Evans, MD
Source
Children's Heart Center Nevada, 3006 S Maryland Pkwy, Ste 690, Las
Vegas, Nevada 89109, USA. Email: wnevans50@aol.com.
Abstract
The eponym Ňtetralogy of FallotÓ did not become a common noun in
pediatric cardiology vocabulary for several decades after Etienne-Louis Arthur
FallotŐs report in a French medical journal. There were others before Fallot
who described the abnormal cardiac anatomical findings seen in tetralogy of
Fallot, but his name became fixed to the conditionŐs eponym primarily through
Maude Abbott popularizing the term.