Introduction Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common cyanotic congenital heart disease. Early detection and timely treatment have provided successful repair of the anomaly in the developed world. However, in the developing world, there is still a burden of uncorrected TOF patients reaching adulthood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective To assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cardiothoracic and vascular surgery procedures volume at a tertiary care hospital. Materials & Methods This cross-sectional retrospective study was carried out at a tertiary care hospital's Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery department. All the four-year surgical procedures data were reviewed from August 2017 to August 2021.
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