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Successful balloon angioplasty of a coarctation in an infant <500 g
M S Schamberger1, Z A Lababidi
1Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children's Hospital at the University of Missouri-Columbia, One Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO 65212, USA.
Pediatric Cardiology
|August 14, 1998
Abstract:
We describe the first successful balloon angioplasty of a coarctation in a 460-g newborn infant with coarctation of the aorta and heart failure. A coronary angioplasty catheter was positioned across the coarctation via a transumbilical approach. The waist of the balloon disappeared on maximal inflation and there was an increase in blood pressure distal to the coarctation and the clinical status improved. A ductus arteriosus was ligated 4 days after angioplasty.