Aortic coarctation

"A 30-year-old farmer was referred for evaluation of a bicuspid aortic valve."

Aortic Coarctation and Bicuspid Aortic Valve.

N Engl J Med.2000;342:249

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"The patient was a 12-year-old boy who was born with a coarctation of the thoracic aorta."

Three-Dimensional Visualization of Recurrent Coarctation of the Aorta by Electron-Beam Tomography and MRI

Circulation.1999;99:3086

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Pseudoaneurysm of a conduit implanted to treat coarctation of the aorta.

False aneurysms of an ascending-aorta-to-abdominal-aorta bypass for coarctation of the aorta.

Circulation.2001;103:E92

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Coarctation of the Aorta.

Coarctation of the aorta.

Circulation.2001;103:E27

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"A 53-year-old man with a family history of premature atherosclerosis, borderline hypercholesterolemia, and a 15-pack-year history of cigarette smoking was seen for intermittent claudication, which had been present for six months."

Images in clinical medicine. Thromboatheromatous aortic coarctation.

N Engl J Med.1998;338:1034

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Edited by Donald L Vine MD