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Percutaneous transluminal balloon dilation angioplasty of an aortic coarctation was done in a one-day-old boy. The infant died 10 h later during aortic valvotomy. A dissecting aneurysm of the aortic arch was present at autopsy.
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Krabill, K.A., Bass, J.L., Lucas, R.V. et al. Dissecting transverse aortic arch aneurysm after percutaneous transluminal balloon dilation angioplasty of an aortic coarctation. Pediatr Cardiol 8, 39–42 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02308383
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