OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the prevalence and predisposing condition for aortic wall complications in adults with either repaired or non-repaired coarctation of the aorta. BACKGROUND Aortic wall complications may develop in adults with coarctation of the aorta, despite successful surgical repair in childhood. METHODS A total of 235 adults with coarctation (mean age 27 +/- 13 years) w...

Background: Optimal management strategy for native aortic coarctation in neonates and young infants is a controversial issue. In this study, we compare balloon dilatation with surgery in terms of the efficacy of treating native aortic coarctation in patients less than 120 days of age. Methods: Between January 2000 and October 2006, after excluding patients with complex cardiac anomalies, we enr...

OBJECTIVES To assess survival and long term arch patency rates in a consecutive group of children after extended arch repair for coarctation of the aorta. METHODS Review of 191 consecutive children (154 (81%) under 1 year of age) operated on between 1990 and 2002 by a single surgeon using extended arch reconstructive techniques. For assessment of survival patients were divided into three grou...

Doppler ultrasound was used to investigate 48 infants and children (age 2 days-16 years, weight 1.0-58 kg) with aortic arch abnormalities. In only 38 of the 42 with an important coarctation was an increased blood flow velocity from the distal arch demonstrated. In three with interruption of the aortic arch an increased velocity recorded from the region of the distal arch was thought to represen...

A 69-year-old man was referred for investigation of a right upper chest mass. In 1965 he had an aortic coarctation resected with Dacron graft insertion. He remained asymptomatic for the intervening 33 years before presenting with breathlessness on exertion. A chest x-ray showed a right upper lobe mass, and computed tomography showed a descending aorta aneurysm. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance...

We reported a 21-year-old patient with strict descending aorta coarctation and small post-ductal patent ductus arteriosus, complicated with abortion and hypertension. The patient was successfully treated by endovascular stent-graft with a single cardiac catheterization. Endovascular stent-graft is an easy, safe, and reliable intervention for the treatment of strict descending aorta coarctation ...

A persistent left sided fifth aortic arch with coarctation of the aorta and persistence of the ductus arteriosus was recognised and treated surgically in a newborn infant. The fifth arch was used to repair the coarctation, and five years later the child had normal peripheral pulses and no residual murmurs.

Coarctation complicated with mycotic pseudo-aneurysm is very rare. We are reporting a case of a 26-year-old man suffered from this pathology. As the incidence of mycotic pseudo-aneurysm is very rare in patients with aortic coarctation, the choice of this pathology for a patient presenting with unexplained fever is the only way to reduce the mortality risk.

Generally coarctation of aorta causes left ventricular dilatation which leads to systolic murmur of mitral regurgitation but in our case of coarctation of aorta the patient had submitral aneurysm as a cause of mitral regurgitation. As such coactation of aorta and submitral aneurysm rarely coexist.

Coarctation of the aorta is typically a disease of childhood and early adulthood, and there is a reduced life expectancy in patients who have not undergone correction. Survival to older age is rare, due to severe cardiovascular complications. We describe the case of a woman first diagnosed with coarctation of aorta at an advanced age.