Any person diagnosed with high blood pressure should be checked for coarctation of the aorta. Often, kids don't have any symptoms and the COA is discovered during a regular visit to the doctor. Kids ...

In a series of 70 patients who had surgical correction of coarctation of the aorta between 1952 and 1969, the operative mortality was 7% and the complication rate was 14%. The mortality was ...

1 Furthermore, recoarctation occurs in 3–35%. 2– 4 The association of a bicuspid aortic valve with coarctation of the aorta is well recognised, but estimates of bicuspid valve in patients with ...

2 Delay in diagnosis may occur if the coarctation is subclinical and can play a role in the type of repair undertaken. Bare-metal stents have largely replaced open repair for older children and adults ...

3 Department of Radiology ... Surgery is still the treatment of choice in infants with an aortic coarctation with a mortality rate of less than 1%. Balloon dilatation should be avoided in children ...

What is coarctation of the aorta? Coarctation of the aorta means part of your aorta is narrower than it should be. The narrowing stops your blood from flowing as easily as it should, so your heart ...

This condition develops before birth, but it does not always cause signs or symptoms right away ... But it was only after delivery that they learned one of their daughters had coarctation of the aorta ...

The histological changes found in the coronary arteries in 15 patients with coarctation of the aorta have been described. Qualitative and quantitative studies were performed and the results compared ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the early results of balloon expandable stent implantation for aortic coarctation or recoarctation ... (p < 0.001), and mean minimum aortic diameter increased from 7 mm (95% CI, ...

Objective: To determine the course of FTOE in the first 48 hours (hrs) of admission in infants with aortic coarctation and to ... Median gestational age was 37.3 weeks (range:31.7-39.6), birth ...