A 71-year-old woman with isthmic aortic coarctation underwent aortic valve replacement and coronary bypass. Before aortic clamping, end-to-side anastomosis to descending aorta was performed. After cardiac surgery, the graft was directed posterior to the inferior vena cava and anastomosed to the ascending aorta by using a side-biting clamp (Fig. 1). Fig. 1. Three-dimensional computed tomographic...

Partial muscular inter-ventricular septal defect (VSD) or Pacman heart is a rare congenital or occasionally acquired anomaly. Concurrent Pacman heart and Shone's complex are extremely rare and have never been reported until now. We described a 37-year-old male patient with congenital Pacman heart, flail mitral valve (FMV), and a history of multiple congenital anomalies, including subvalvular ao...

OBJECTIVE To examine the use of balloon angioplasty in the treatment of native adult aortic coarctation. DESIGN Haemodynamic and angiographic studies to establish the diagnosis of aortic coarctation were established before carrying out the procedure in all patients. SETTING All the studies and angiographic procedures were performed in a large district general hospital within the departments...

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...

NATURAL OCCURRENCE Although there is little data on the exact incidence of poststenotic dilatation, it is common with some types of constriction such as pulmonary and aortic valve stenoses' but rare with others such as infundibular pulmonary stenosis" or supravalvular aortic stenosis. It occurs with both congenital" and acquired' 6 aortic stenosis. Skandalakis et al., in a survey of the literat...

We investigated the role of prostanoid-mediated pressor mechanisms in setting the level of blood pressure in renin-dependent and renin-independent models of hypertension in unanesthetized rats. Intravenous administration of a blocker of thromboxane A2/prostaglandin endoperoxide receptors, SQ29548 (2 mg/kg bolus injection plus 2 mg/kg/hr for 3 hours), reduced from 162 +/- 4 to 144 +/- 5 mm Hg (p...

Among 119 cases of fatal dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, exclusive of those iatrogenically caused or associated with arachnodactyly or aortic stenosis, there were observed 11 cases of congenital bicuspid aortic valve (9%). The ages ranged from 17 to 69 years, five of the patients being 29 years old or younger. Among the latter, three had coarctation of the aorta and one had Turner's syndrome ...

Although uncomplicated type B dissection is well established to be treated conservatively, adult aortic coarctation is still considered a surgical candidate in the presence of peak-to-peak coarctation gradient >20 mmHg. The treatment for aortic coarctation included surgical repair, balloon angioplasty, and stenting [17]. While balloon angioplasty is the preferred treatment for discrete coarctat...

In patients with unexplained hypertension, especially in combination with a cardiac murmur, the presence of an aortic coarctation should always be ruled out given the high morbidity and mortality. However, particularly patients with an isolated coarctation often remain asymptomatic for years and the defect may be unnoticed even until the fifth or sixth decade of life. In the present article, we...