title: MRI in adult patients with aortic coarctation: diagnosis and follow-up.
abstract: Aortic coarctation is a disease that usually presents in infancy; however, a proportion of patients present for the first time in adulthood. These lesions generally require repair with either surgery or interventional techniques. The success of these techniques means that increasing numbers of patients are presenting for follow-up imaging in adulthood, whether their coarctation was initially repaired in infancy or as adults. Thus, the adult presenting to the radiologist for assessment of possible coarctation or follow-up of coarctation repair is not an uncommon scenario. In this review, we present details of the MRI protocols and MRI findings in these patients so that a confident and accurate assessment can be made.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shepherd
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abbas
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McParland
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fitzsimmons
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shambrook
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peebles
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK. Electronic address: stephen.harden@uhs.nhs.uk.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Harden
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011379:Prognosis