This report documents the first known cases of congenital pericardial defect associated with tetralogy of Fallot, including a unique case of lung herniation into the pericardial cavity.
Alerts clinicians to rare pericardial defects in tetralogy of Fallot; hypothesis-generating and does not alter practice.
Congenital pericardial defect is a rare anomaly with a total of 115 cases in the literature. The two cases discussed are the first reported to be associated with tetralogy of Fallot. The only known case of herniation of normal lung through a pericardial defect into the pericardial cavity is described.
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