The aorta of a patient with aortic valve stenosis may be unduly thin, fragile, and liable to dissect irrespective of the presence or absence of atheroma. Indeed, Coleman (1955) stated that aortic dissection in young people was most commonly associated with coarctation or with bicuspid aortic valve. Petch (1952) reported fatal haemopericardium from ruptured dissecting aneurysm in a man of 35 yea...

Aortic coarctation is a congenital vascular lesion, usually diagnosed and corrected in childhood or early adulthood. Most of the untreated patients with aortic die before age 50 years. Coarctation cardiac lesions complex clinical situation that necessitates surgical treatment different pathologies strategies.
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Balloon dilation angioplasty (BDA) was attempted nine times in eight infants and children with aortic coarctation. In three infants (all with associated ventricular septal defect or atrioventricular canal and marked hemodynamic instability) dilation was attempted at a site of aortic narrowing that had not been operated on previously. Although the coarctation gradient fell 40% or more over the s...

Four cases of simultaneous surgery for aortic root aneurysm with aortic regurgitation and coarctation of the aorta were presented. Age at surgery ranged from 18 to 37 years and all were male. All had annuloaortic ectasia and dilatation of the ascending aorta, 3 had bicuspid aortic valve and 1 had acute localized aortic dissection. Preoperative grade of aortic regurgitation was trivial in 1, mod...

introduction aortic surgery has made much progress recently. yet the combination of aortic surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting has remained a major issue for the surgeons. patient and observation herein, we present a case of severe aortic insufficiency with aortic aneurysm concomitant with single coronary artery disease on the right coronary artery. the patient underwent bentall procedu...

The combination of coarctation of the aorta and aortic valvular stenosis is not well known, although the association of coarctation with aortic incompetence is generally recognized and usually attributed to an incompetent bicuspid aortic valve. Abbot (1928), in her review of coarctation, did not discuss its association with aortic valvular stenosis. However, she reported four cases of sub-aorti...

Dear Editor,Abdominal aortic aneurysm is often asymptomatic, less recognized, and causes considerable mortality and morbidity, if missed. The incidence varies from country to country and the occurrence is influenced by modifiable (smoking, coronary heart disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and prolonged steroid therapy) and non-modifiable risk factors (increasing age, male gender, and positive...

Salmonella mycotic aneurysms of the descending thoracic aorta are exceedingly rare. There are few case reports and even fewer reports of long term survival. The case of a 68-year-old female presenting with a mycotic aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta caused by Salmonella species is described, which involved successful surgical intervention.

A54-year-old white woman with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, atrial fibrillation, bicuspid aortic valve, and a previously repaired aortic coarctation in adulthood underwent a computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest to evaluate her surgical repair after an episode of chest pain. Her original repair consisted of a coarctectomy with placement of a side-to-side graft. The CT scan rev...

BACKGROUND After repair of aortic coarctation, patients may develop restenosis, aneurysms, and pseudoaneurysms at the site of prior repair. We assessed the outcomes of late reintervention on the descending aorta after aortic coarctation repair. METHODS AND RESULTS From March 1954 to July 2008, 130 patients had operations or endovascular procedures on the descending aorta after previous coarct...