Key result
Propranolol lacks reported efficacy data for preventing hypoxic spells in tetralogy of Fallot.
Why the study?
Drug therapy is required for emergency treatment of severe dyspneic spells and may help prevent dyspneic spells and exercise hypoxia in children with tetralogy of Fallot awaiting surgery.
Does propranolol prevent dyspneic spells and exercise hypoxia in children with tetralogy of Fallot awaiting operation?
Does propranolol prevent dyspneic spells and exercise hypoxia in children with tetralogy of Fallot awaiting operation?
Beta-adrenergic inhibition with propranolol may be valuable for managing dyspneic spells and exercise hypoxia in children with Tetralogy of Fallot awaiting surgery.
May guide pre-operative TOF symptom management; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Propranololin Tetralogy of Fallot W HILE TOTAL surgical correction is the goal for all patients with tetralogy of Fallot, drug therapy is required for emergency treatment of severe dyspneic spells and could be of value in preventing dyspneic spells and exercise hypoxia in children await- ing operation./3-adrenergic inhibition has been of value in the management of patients with functional obstruction to left ventricular outflow.Since there appears to be a functional element to the outflow obstruction in many patients with Fallot's tetralogy, pronethaloll 2
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Gordon R. Cumming (1970) studied Tetralogy of Fallot. Propranolol was evaluated. The truncated abstract provides no quantitative results or findings regarding the use of propranolol for tetralogy of Fallot.
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