Several surgical approaches have been described for the management of
adult patients with acquired heart disease and paraductal coarctation
of the aorta. Options are a staged procedure using median sternotomy
and left thoracotomy, a catheter-based intervention of the coarctation
combined with sternotomy, and single-stage simultaneous correction of
lesions via sternotomy.
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Aorta
May 24, 2008
Operative Steps
Modified Subcoronary Implantation
May 24, 2008
Patient Selection
Editor's Note
March 11, 2008
STSA 2006
Editor's Note
November 16, 2006
By Andreas Zierer, MD and Marc R. Moon, MD
STSA 2006
Video:
May 29, 2006
By Hazim J. Safi, MD, Anthony L. Estrera, MD, Eyal Porat, MD, Tam T. Huynh, MD, Ali Azizzadeh, MD, and Riad Medea, MD
STSA 2005:
Video:
June 26, 2005
A 72 year old white male presented with a complaint of recent onset of upper mid-back pain. He states that the pain starts in his chest and radiates to his upper back, and that the symptoms have been relatively constant for the last several weeks.