Adult patients with coarctation of the aorta have a range of clinical presentations. These include the presence of additional cardiovascular anomalies (predominantly aortic valve abnormality) and presentation with complications after coarctation repair in childhood (such as recurrent coarctation or aneurysm formation). Developments in endovascular technology over the past decade may potentially...

Forty eight children (29 boys) had surgical correction of coarctation of the aorta during the first month of life; all had patent ductus arteriosus. The 33 survivors were reviewed at a mean age of 6.6 years. Of the 19 children with no associated anomaly, none had died. The more complex the associated anomalies, the greater the mortality. Two (6%) of the survivors, both with associated anomalies...

oarctation of the aorta is a discrete narrowing of the aorta, the main blood vessel carrying oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the body, causing an obstruction to blood flow. Coarctation is a common congenital heart defect, an abnormality in the structure of the aorta that is present at birth or shortly after birth. It may be identified in infants or older children or adults and successfully ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the reliability of 16-slice multidetector computed tomographic (MDCT) angiography for the preoperative morphologic assessment of coarctation of the aorta in adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-four adult patients with clinical suspicion of coarctation of the aorta who underwent both Doppler echocardiography and MDCT angiography were included in this study. The sensitiviti...

A 6-month-old male presented with increased respiratory efforts, a low grade fever, O2 saturations in the high 80s and wheezing. Symptoms improved with nebulized albuterol. A chest X-ray revealed cardiomegaly and a rightsided infiltrate (Figs. 1 and 2); EKG revealed criteria consistent with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). An echocardiogram confirmed coarctation of the aorta (Fig. 3). Coarct...

Coarctation of the aorta is a cause of hypertension that can present dramatically in the severely ill infant or appear incidentally in the asymptomatic young adult. Coarctation is easily detected and there is good evidence that the extremely poor natural history can be altered favorably by surgical correction. The elevated blood pressure can be lowered in the majority of patients, and there is ...

Coarctation of the aorta (CoA), is a congenital defect characterized by a severe narrowing of the aorta, usually distal to the aortic arch. The treatment options include surgical repair, stent implantation, and balloon angioplasty. In order to evaluate the physiological significance of the pre-operative coarctation and to assess the post-operative results, the hemodynamic analysis is usually pe...

The purpose of the present study was to assess the usefulness of balloon expandable Palmaz intravascular stents in the transcatheter treatment of children and young adults with native and recurrent coarctation of the aorta, and to develop an improved intravascular stent and balloon delivery catheter specifically developed for vascular obstructions associated with congenital heart disease, inclu...

Coarctation of thoracic aorta is an uncommon diagnosis in adults. Catheter-based intervention consisting of primary ballooning and stenting is becoming one of the methods of choice for the treatment of native coarctation. We describe the case of a young adult with coarctation of the aorta treated unsuccessfully with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stent implantation that resulted in s...

Correspondence: E. Kiguli-Malwadde Makerere University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology and Mulago Hospital P.O.Box 7051, Kampala, Uganda Email [email protected] Introduction Coarctation of the aorta is a relatively common defect. It may occur as an isolated defect or in association with a variety of other lesions, most commonly bicuspid aortic valve. The diagnosis of coarctat...