Post-operative Blood Pressures in Coarctation of the Aorta.

Gross and Hufnagel (1945) and Crafoord and Nylin (1945) independently reported successful repair of the coarctation of aorta. Since then many thousand patients have had surgical correction of this anomaly (Bailey, 1957; Campbell and Baylis, 1956; Cleland et al., 1956; Keith, Rowe, and Vlad, 1958). There have been numerous reports dealing with the immediate post-operative period (d'Abreau and Parsons, 1956) but very few long-term follow-up studies have been carried out either in children or in the older age-groups. This report deals with the follow-up results of the patients operated upon for coarctation of aorta, from birth to 15 years of age, at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.