Aortic coarctation (CoA) is a congenital heart ... A study highlighted the successful use of echocardiography-guided stenting in very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight infants ...

Participants A total of 121 patients with aortic coarctation (ages 1–71 years) underwent cardiac MRI, echocardiography and blood pressure measurements. Outcome measures Cross-sectional diameters of ...

Aortic coarctation (AoCoA ... The non-invasive imaging options available for assessment of AoCoA include echocardiography, CMR, cardiac computed tomography (CT). CMR has become the preferred ...

Three different patients groups were assembled: BAV patients: Adults (age ≥18 years) with BAV identified by echocardiography were included. Exclusion criteria were previous cardiac surgery (except for ...

The patient had a mildly dilated ascending aorta of 28.5 mm (Z-score = 3.1). There was no evidence of coarctation. At 17 years of age, another echocardiogram reported ascending aorta diameters of 28 ...

AVSD indicates atrioventricular septal defect; BPD, bronchopulmonary dysplasia; CHD, congenital heart disease; CLD, chronic lung disease; CoA, coarctation of aorta; IQR ... and decreased RV function ...

Background Aortic stenosis is a degenerative condition with high mortality in its severe stages and no preventive treatment.

Surgery is still the treatment of choice in infants with an aortic coarctation with a mortality rate of less than 1%. Balloon dilatation should be avoided in children and neonates as it is less ...

Results Bicuspid aortic valves (BAV) were found in 52/152 (34%) 45,X study subjects and aortic coarctation (COA) in 19/152 (12.5%). Isolated anomalous pulmonary veins (APV) were detected in 15/152 (10 ...

Indeed, the greatest interest in obtaining more insights on the genetic contributors of aortic valve malformations lies in the opportunity to translate this knowledge in the clinical practice, aimed ...