A successful stenting of the coarctation of aorta in a patient presented with acute pulmonary edema.
A 64-year-old female patient presented with heart failure with acute pulmonary edema due to severe aortic coarctation. After endotracheal intubation, aortogram was performed and revealed a severe luminal narrowing in the distal thoracic aorta with a peak systolic pressure gradient of 100 mm Hg across the lesion. Stent implantation was performed with 24*100 mm self-expandable Nitinol-S stent after predilation with 10*40 mm balloon. After stenting, the patient's symptom and sign of congestive heart failure were remarkably improved and able to remove endotracheal intubation tube, with no significant adverse cardiac events observed during a 1-year clinical follow-up.
Kim
Weon
W
Jeong
Myung Ho
MH
Shim
Won Heum
WH
Ahn
Young Keun
YK
Kang
Jung Chaee
JC
D000208:Acute Disease; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed