Arthur Fallot

{{Short description|French physician}}

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| image = Dr Etienne Louis Arthur Fallot - Arzt.jpg

| birth_name = Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1850|09|29|df=y}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1911|04|30|1850|09|19|df=yes}}

| known_for = Tetralogy of Fallot

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Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot (September 29, 1850 in Sète, Hérault – April 30, 1911) was a French physician.{{cite book |author1=Whitworth, Judith A. |author-link=Judith Whitworth |author2=Firkin, Barry G. |title=Dictionary of medical eponyms |publisher=Parthenon Pub |location=New York |year=1996 |isbn=1-85070-333-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmedi0000firk }}“Tetralogy of Fallot” and Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot W.N. Evans - Pediatric cardiology, 2008 "Abstract The eponym “tetralogy of Fallot” did not become a common noun in pediatric cardiology vocabulary for several decades after Étienne-Louis Arthur Fallot's report in a French medical journal. There were others before Fallot who described the abnormal .."The Heart of a Child: What Families Need to Know Catherine A. Neill, Edward B. Clark, Carleen Clark - 2003 "Tetralogy of Fallot (named for the nineteenth-century French cardiologist Arthur Fallot) is the most usual cause of cardiac cyanosis, occurring in about three of every ten thousand children born."The Developing Heart: A 'History' of Pediatric Cardiology p37 Catherine A. Neill, Edward B. Clark - 1995 "Figure 5- Arthur Fallot (1850-1911) of Marseilles."Pediatric Cardiology: Introduction Hung-Chi Lue "Since the era of Arthur Fallot (1850~1911) of Marseilles and Maude E. Abbot (1869~1940) of Montreal, 100 years have passed."[http://patrimoinemedical.univmed.fr/rues/rues_fallot.htm Arthur Fallot]

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.{{WhoNamedIt|synd|2281}}E. L. A. Fallot. Contribution à l’anatomie pathologique de la maladie bleue (cyanose cardiaque). Marseille médical, 1888, 25: 77-93, 138-158, 207-223, 341-354, 370-386, 403-420.