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This 18-year-old, healthy-appearing, asymptomatic woman had cyanotic nailbeds.
Digital clubbing with cyanotic nail beds in an otherwise healthy-appearing, asymptomatic young adult is characteristic of acongenital cardiac anomaly with right-to-left shunting. The patient shown had tetralogy of Fallot, the most common congenital cyanotic heart disease inadults.
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