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Definition and Morphology It was Etienne-Louis Arthur Fallot who, in a series of papers in 1888, separated the malformation we now describe with his name from other anatomic lesions responsible for the “maladie bleue.” Although autopsy cases had been recognized…

Congenital heart disease (CHD) lesions occur during embryonic development and consist of abnormal formations of the heart walls, valves, or blood vessels. The dramatic improvement in CHD diagnosis and continued progress of CHD interventions since the 1960s have resulted in…