Arthur Fallot
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Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot (September 29, 1850 in Sète, Hérault – April 30, 1911) was a French physician.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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Born | Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot (1850-09-29)29 September 1850 |
Died | 30 April 1911(1911-04-30) (aged 60) |
Known for | Tetralogy of Fallot |
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Fallot attended medical school in Montpellier in 1867. While in residence in Marseille he wrote a thesis on pneumothorax. In 1888 he was made Professor of Hygiene and Legal Medicine in Marseille. In 1888 Fallot described in detail the four anatomical characteristics of tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect responsible for blue baby syndrome.[7][8]