2024年7月20日 · To diagnose aortic coarctation, a healthcare professional checks blood pressure in the arms and legs. Depending on which part of the aorta is affected, blood pressure may be high in the arms and low in the legs and ankles.

Intravascular stent therapy is considered a primary therapeutic option for most adults and adolescents with coarctation of the aorta. This review highlights the indications, technical considerations, procedural aspects, and limited long-term outcome data when using this …

2024年9月16日 · Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is a discrete narrowing of the thoracic aorta just distal to the left subclavian artery (image 1). The care of a patient with CoA depends upon the severity of the CoA, patient age, and clinical presentation. The management of CoA, including corrective treatment options and complications, will be reviewed here.

Recently, the results of the Coarctation of the Aorta Stent Trial (COAST) trial, a study that aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of CP stents in children and adults with native or re-CoA were published.

Coarctation of the aorta is a congenital heart defect in which your baby’s aorta (the largest artery in their body) is pinched in or narrowed in one spot. This restricts normal blood flow to their lower body. Surgery or catheterization can repair the problem and relieve symptoms. Long-term follow-ups are essential even after repair.

2021年5月27日 · Coarctation stenting is effective at maintaining obstruction relief up to 60 months postimplant with reduction in the number of patients requiring antihypertensive medication. However, an increase in-stent fractures and reinterventions were observed between medium and long-term follow-up.

Coarctation of the aorta is a narrowing of the aorta between the upper body branches and the lower body branches. It's typically in an isolated location just after the "arch" of the aorta. The blockage can increase blood pressure in your arms and head, yet reduce pressure in your legs.

Coarctation of the aorta is an abnormal narrowing of the aorta. The aorta is the large blood vessel that exits the heart. Transcatheter repair is a type of procedure that can treat the aorta without the need for open heart surgery.

Keywords: angiogram, aortic coarctation, cardiac catheterisation, pressure gradients, stent. INTRODUCTION. Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) accounts for 5%–8% of all congenital heart defects. When CoA is significant, it requires surgical or endovascular intervention.

2001年11月1日 · Endovascular stent implantation is now increasingly used in place of balloon dilation for both native coarctation and recoarctation in older children and adults (8–14). There is a much smaller experience in infants and small children.