Although cardiologists have often ascribed aortic coarctation as a "simple" congenital heart disease, Gerald Ross Marx, MD, FACC, of Boston Children's Hospital, said "nothing could be further from ...

COIMBATORE: A 25-year-old woman from Tirunelveli who was diagnosed with coarctation of the aorta (COA), a rare congenital heart defect, was treated at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH ...

Healthy valves open wide to let blood move freely through the heart and body. They then shut tightly until the next heartbeat. If you have aortic regurgitation, the flaps around your aortic ...

Aortic dissection is a life-threatening medical condition in which a tear occurs in the major artery (aorta) that carries ...

Aortic coarctation is a fatal cardiovascular disease. For Stanford type B aortic coarctation, aortic endovascular isolation (TEVAR) is currently the treatment of choice and is far less invasive than ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, carrying oxygen-rich blood from the heart to every organ and tissue. It begins at the left ventricle, ...

Manning Family Children’s has become the first hospital in Louisiana to utilize cutting-edge virtual reality (VR) ...

Where do we stand on the technology available for surgical repair of aortic coarctation ... Management of grown up congenital heart disease. Eur Heart J 2003;24:1035-84.

This abnormal backflow of blood leads to pathologic changes in the heart — remodeling — in order to maintain effective forward cardiac output. Aortic regurgitation (AR) may occur due to damage ...