Aortic Coarctation

We report a case of a 45-year-old male suffering from arterial hypertension who was found to have an aortic coarctation with marked hypertrophic compensatory collateral arterial circulation. Although coarctation is relatively rare, this must be included in the differential diagnosis in patients with...

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Autores principales: Rossi, Umberto G., Ierardi, Anna Maria, Carrafiello, Gianpaolo, Cariati, Maurizio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers 2020
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7394564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32736405
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1701522
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author Rossi, Umberto G.
Ierardi, Anna Maria
Carrafiello, Gianpaolo
Cariati, Maurizio
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description We report a case of a 45-year-old male suffering from arterial hypertension who was found to have an aortic coarctation with marked hypertrophic compensatory collateral arterial circulation. Although coarctation is relatively rare, this must be included in the differential diagnosis in patients with arterial hypertension with a positive gradient between upper and lower limbs.
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spelling pubmed-73945642020-08-03 Aortic Coarctation Rossi, Umberto G. Ierardi, Anna Maria Carrafiello, Gianpaolo Cariati, Maurizio Aorta (Stamford) We report a case of a 45-year-old male suffering from arterial hypertension who was found to have an aortic coarctation with marked hypertrophic compensatory collateral arterial circulation. Although coarctation is relatively rare, this must be included in the differential diagnosis in patients with arterial hypertension with a positive gradient between upper and lower limbs. Thieme Medical Publishers 2020-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7394564/ /pubmed/32736405 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1701522 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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