Objectives:The purpose wasto show how important is to operate on the Senegalese African children
presenting withTetralogy of Fallot(TOF) regardless of their age.Methods: It is a retrospective,
descriptiveanalysis of data from the Department of
Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital of Tuebingen’sdatabase which was searched for all cases of TOF in foreign patients younger
than 15 yearsbetween 05/2004-10/2016.Results:16 children from Senegal with TOF were referred for treatment.Mean age of patients was 7.0 years (range 0.9-
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