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Arthur Fallot
Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot
was a
French
physician
.
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
.
