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Covered stent to treat co-existent coarctation and aneurysm of the aorta in a young man
  1. JULIAN GUNN,
  2. TREVOR CLEVELAND,
  3. PETER GAINES

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.82.3.351

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    A 23 year old man presented with hypertension and clinical, electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and radiographic features of coarctation. Aortography delineated the coarctation (gradient 40 mm Hg) and a spherical aneurysm 3 cm across, originating at the coarctation. Under general anaesthesia, a cut-down and femoral arteriotomy was made and a 16 F sheath inserted. A superstiff Amplatz …

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