Three-year-old child with middle aortic syndrome treated by endovascular stent implantation.
Middle aortic syndrome (MAS) is an extremely rare anomaly and represents both a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge, particularly in young children. A case of a 3.5 year-old child with MAS and arterial hypertension is reported, where owing to the patient's young age and the length of the hypoplastic aortic segment, surgical correction with end-to-end anastomosis was not feasible. Instead of palliative bypass grafting between the thoracic and abdominal aorta, successful percutaneous balloon angioplasty and stenting of the lesion was performed with the assistance of three-dimensional rotational angiography.
Department of Cardiology, Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital, Research Institute, 93347, Lodz, Poland.
Tomasz
T
Moszura
Sebastian
S
Goreczny
Pawel
P
Dryzek
Marek
M
Niwald
D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D001018:Aortic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D002675:Child, Preschool; D017023:Coronary Angiography; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D015607:Stents; D013577:Syndrome; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed