Surgery is still the treatment of choice ... with balloon angioplasty alone in adult patients with native aortic coarctation. Stent repair is safe and effective in adult patients presenting ...
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On the day before your treatment, you may be asked to withhold some of your blood pressure medication. This is so it does not interfere with the blood pressure response during the actual stent ...
The weakened sections of the aortic wall may become unable to support the force of blood flow ... x-rays and/or intravascular ultrasound imaging procedures are performed to verify that the stent graft ...
Where do we stand on the technology available for surgical repair of aortic coarctation ... is primary stenting of the coarctation lesion. Currently, most of these procedures are done with ...