Coarctation with Concomitant Cardiovascular Pathologies

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Aortic coarctation is known as a local tightening of the aortic wall due to a local abnormality of the aortic media layer causing a reduction or complete obstruction of its lumen. Of all congenital heart defects, aortic coarctation occurs in about 8-10% of the cases and may be isolated or accompanied by other congenital defects. Нrough a leі lateral thoracotomy, the surgical treatment of the coarctation has been achieved by many techniques which were reproducible, safe, and eوٴective. Ten to fiіy percent of the corrected patients will experience a recoarctation depending on their ages during the primary correction and most importantly the implemented surgical technique; the highest is with patch aortoplasty.