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A Case of Severe Asymptomatic Aortic Coarctation in an Adult Female

Coarctation of the aorta is typically a disease of childhood and early adulthood, and there is a reduced life expectancy in patients who have not undergone correction. Survival to older age is rare, due to severe cardiovascular complications. We describe the case of a woman first diagnosed with coar...

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Autores principales: Tsikrikas, Spyros, Charalampous, Charalampos, Letsas, Konstantinos P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24826221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/535463