The relation between significant stenosis or dilatation at the repair site and outcome in a contemporary cohort of patients with repaired aortic coarctation as assessed using Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
✍ Scribed by Sylvia S Chen; Konstantinos Dimopoulos; Rafael Alonso-Gonzalez; Emmanouil Liodakis; Elvis Teijeira-Fernandez; Maria Alvarez-Barredo; Gerhard-Paul Diller; Daryl Shore; Anselm Uebing; Lorna Swan; Michael Gatzoulis; Raad H Mohiaddin
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1097-6647
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✦ Synopsis
Complications of restenosis or dilatation at the site of repair may occur late after initial repair of coarctation of the aorta (CoA). Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is becoming the choice of imaging of patients after CoA. Using CMR, we studied the relation between these complications and outcome inn patients with previous CoA repair, and found that significant stenosis or dilatation at the repair site is a predictor of adverse outcome.