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Immediate post-operative balloon dilatation of neonatal long segment stenosis of the descending thoracic aorta
M R Ebeid1, G E Sarris, J J Drummond-Webb
1University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Children s Hospital, 2500 N. State Street, Jackson, MS 39216, USA. mebeid@ped.umsmed.edu
The Journal of Invasive Cardiology
|January 9, 2001
Abstract:
During surgical repair of a neonatal coarctation it was recognized that this was a rare, previously undescribed form of stenosis of the entire descending thoracic aorta. A few hours after the end-to-end surgical repair, the child underwent successful balloon angioplasty, involving the entire descending thoracic aorta, and in which we intentionally avoided the surgical site.