Balloon angioplasty is currently limited to pediatric patients with a discrete re-coarctation or in older children and adults in whom the arterial access site is not suitable Stent repair might be ...

As published, about one third of patients (31 %) had further ophthalmologic abnormalities, and cardiac anomalies, including coarctation of the aorta. Subglottic hemangiomas were seen in 4 (7 % ...

The type of cardiac malformation was ventricular septal defect in 37 patients (29.6%), coarctation of the aorta in 22 (17.6%), tetralogy of Fallot in 19 (15.2%), transposition of the great ...

“Specifically for this patient there were two options that ... Editor. BACKGROUND: Coarctation of the aorta is a congenital heart defect characterized by a narrowing of the aorta, the large ...

To read more patient stories from Children’s ... Davis was diagnosed with a coarctation or narrowing of the aorta—the main artery leading out of the heart. He also had two ventricular septal ...