Doppler interrogation is useful to determine flow characteristics across a PDA, ASD and VSD; Echocardiography is generally the first test in the initial evaluation of coarctation of the aorta.

COIMBATORE: A 25-year-old woman from Tirunelveli who was diagnosed with coarctation of the aorta (COA), a rare congenital ... blood pressure was low in her legs. In an ECHO test, it was found ...

This is a heart defect where part of the aorta narrows ... from our local hospital where they did an echo straight away which revealed he had Coarctation of the Aorta. "After 24 hours on high ...