Recent studies have demonstrated that there is a loss of aortic compliance in patients after coarctation repair and a September 2007 paper confirmed this in a cohort of 404 patients followed for ...

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 ...

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 ...