[Intravenous digital subtraction angiography in patients with aortic isthmus stenoses]

The authors report on 18 patients with stenoses of the aortic isthmus in whom digital subtraction angiography had been carried out. In three patients DSA yielded the primary diagnosis of a postductal stenosis of the aortic isthmus. In all postoperative patients, restenosis of the aorta could either be excluded or confirmed. In three cases with complications after an operation, DSA supplied diagnostic information which was decisive for proceeding further. According to the authors' experience, intravenous DSA can replace conventional angiography in the majority of postoperative controls and in future also in primary diagnosis.