Case report reveals successful treatment of brain abscess in a tetralogy of fallot patient, highlighting challenges in congenital heart disease.
Brain abscess is a rare but dangerous suppurative infection. Incidence of congenital heart disease varies from 5% to 18.7%. Despite the improvement in imaging modalities, medical management with newer antibiotics and surgical management, mortality is quite high. We hereby present a case of large brain abscess in a patient of tetralogy of Fallot which was successfully treated by drainage of pus through burr hole and intravenous antibiotics.
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