title: Surgical treatment for isolated coarctation of the aorta in an adult patient.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. dbi6011@hama-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: Katsushi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Kazuya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Terada
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Washiyama
authors.forename: Kazuhiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohkura
authors.forename: Abul Hasan Muhammad
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Bashar
mesh_terms: 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