Coarctation of the aorta in children

Olney, Mary B.; Stephens, H. Brodie

doi:10.1016/s0022-3476(50)80276-7

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“…The importance of a concurrent respiratory or other febrile illness which might precipitate heart failure has been stressed (Calodney and Carson, 1950), but was not a feature in the clinical course of our two infants. Attention has been drawn to the contribution of a hypoplastic aortic arch as a determinant of heart failure in infants with associated localized constriction (Olney and Stephens, 1950;Sinha et al, 1969), but the aortic arch of both our patients appeared of good calibre both angiographically and on direct inspection at the time of operation.…”

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“…Failure to develop good collaterals may be of major importance in the development of cardiac failure in infants with postductal coarctation (Olney and Stephens, 1950;Calodney and Carson, 1950;Bahn et al, 1951). However, in the two infants described, collaterals were well shown angiocardiographically, and thus this factor did not seem to be the determining cause of their heart failure.…”

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