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Intraoperative TEE is crucial in patients with congenital heart disease to detect unexpected complications like infective endocarditis and guide appropriate surgical intervention.
Infective endocarditis is a rare occurrence in the main pulmonary artery trunk and even rarer in tetralogy of Fallot.
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