title: Coarctation of the aorta, early and late results of various surgical techniques.
abstract: In the 10-year period 1973-1983, 158 patients aged one day to 16.4 years were operated upon for coarctation of the aorta; 25% of them were less than one month of age. The main surgical procedure was aortoplasty with a prosthetic patch (114 patients), and resection and end-to-end anastomosis (36 patients). Associated cardiovascular anomalies were found in 42%. There were 11 early and 6 late deaths and the majority of these were due to severe coexistent cardiac lesions. The frequency of moderate and severe recoarctation was much higher in patients operated on with resection and end-to-end anastomosis than in those with aortoplasty and prosthetic patch, 25% and 6.7%, respectively. In 18 patients, surgery for recoarctation was necessary using aortoplasty and a prosthetic patch technique. There were no postoperative complications or deaths in these patients. So far, in 2 cases with a prosthetic patch, aneurysmal dilatation of the aorta adjacent to the patch has developed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, National Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rostad
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abdelnoor
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sørland
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tjønneland
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation; D012189:Retrospective Studies