title: [Isolated coarctations of the aorta. Early repair by aortoplasty with the left subclavian artery. 15 cases].
abstract: When medical treatment is ineffective, isolated aortic coarctation must sometimes be surgically repaired during the first months of life. For these early operations the Crafoord resection-anastomosis technique seems to be disappointing, with a high recurrence rate. Between 1979 and 1983, 15 infants under 6 months of age underwent repair of their coarctation by a different technique: longitudinal aortoplasty using the left subclavian artery. One child died of septic rupture of the aorta, and another was lost sight of. The remaining patients were examined 35 +/- 15 months after surgery. The blood pressure usually returned to normal with no pressure gradient, at rest, between the right upper limb and the lower limbs. One child, however, had a slight (10 mm Hg) residual gradient corresponding to discreet alterations at two-dimensional echocardiography. These good results at rest after aortoplasty seem to be better in medium term than those of resection-anastomosis. The left subclavian flap aortoplasty appears to be the technique of choice in children under 6 months for the treatment of isolated coarctation.
mesh_terms: D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013348:Subclavian Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Coarctations isolées de l'aorte. Réparation précoce par plastie avec l'artère sous-clavière gauche. Quinze observations.