title: Echocardiographic study of morphological and functional signs in patients with coarctation of the aorta.
abstract: 30 patients of both sexes aged 8 weeks to 14 years with coarctation of the aorta were investigated. Echocardiograms of the left ventricle in time-motion technique were performed and selected morphological and functional parameters were measured. The results were compared with a control group of 50 healthy children with the same distribution of age. In coarctation of the aorta there is a hypertrophy of the left ventricular myocardium, but normally no disturbances of the functional parameters are present.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012016:Reference Values