Surgical treatment for isolated coarctation of the aorta in an adult patient.
A 51-year-old woman developed heart failure due to severe hypertension of the upper half of the body caused by coarctation of the aorta. From the available surgical options for this condition, we selected bypass grafting from the left subclavian artery to the descending aorta for this patient.
Yamashita
Katsushi
K
First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. dbi6011@hama-med.ac.jp
Suzuki
Kazuya
K
Terada
Hitoshi
H
Washiyama
Naoki
N
Ohkura
Kazuhiro
K
Bashar
Abul Hasan Muhammad
AH
D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001027:Aortography / Q000379:methods; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D005206:Fascia Lata / Q000637:transplantation; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013348:Subclavian Artery / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome