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Name
  
Arthur Fallot

Role
  
Physician

Died
  
1911


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Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot (September 29, 1850, Sète, Hérault – April 30, 1911) was a French physician.

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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.

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