Abstract:For infants with coarctation of the aorta (COA), either transcatheter balloon angioplasty (BA) or surgical repair is used. COA recurs frequently in low-birth-weight infants who have had either BA or surgical repair. We present a case of a baby girl born at 35 weeks gestational age and weighing 1,374 g who underwent successful surgical repair of COA following palliative BA. A systemic blood pressure gradient of 64 mmHg between the upper and lower limbs was observed at the age of 6 days, con rming the diagnosis … Show more
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