One month before presentation the patient had a computed tomography angiogram (CTA) of the chest that showed (Figure 1A) an extra-anatomic bypass graft from a previous coarctation repair originating ...

Vascular surgeon Dr Samantha Peden told the Australian News broadcaster that the patient’s aortic arch had ballooned to ...

The Queensland man's aorta, the biggest blood vessel in the body, had ballooned to about four times the usual size, leaving it in danger of rupturing.

Background Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) has good modern results, but large multicentre longitudinal data on outcomes, especially hospital resource utilisation through childhood and adolescence, are ...