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Acute aortic dissection after balloon angioplasty of a recoarctation and treatment by stenting and distal membrane fenestration in a child
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- Angioplasty
- coarctation
- aortic dissection
- percutaneous membrane fenestration
- childhood
- congenital heart disease
- imaging and diagnostics
- interventional cardiology
- cardiac function
- aorta
- great vessels and trauma
Percutaneous angioplasty is the method of choice for treatment of a recoarctation. The rate of complications like acute dissection or aortic rupture is extremely low, although …
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