Pentalogy of Fallot Firstly Diagnosed before Emergency Vertebral Surgery in an Adult Patient

Abstract

Pentalogy of Fallot (POF) is a variant of the more common Tetralogy of Fallot. We report the case of a 32-year-old man with asymptomatic POF, who was admitted to the department of acute medicine due to fracture of the lumbar vertebrae, and lumbar fusion was performed timely. No report of an adult with asymptomatic POF exists in the current literature. After 1.5 years, the patient returned to the hospital in order to remove the lumbar internal fixation.