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Interventional recanalisation of long segment aortic atresia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2020

Michael Huntgeburth Open the ORCID record for Michael Huntgeburth [Opens in a new window] ,
Wael Ahmad ,
Jan Brunkwall  and
Narayanswami Sreeram
Michael Huntgeburth*
Affiliation:
Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Center, Clinic III for Internal Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Wael Ahmad
Affiliation:
Clinic for Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Jan Brunkwall
Affiliation:
Clinic for Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Narayanswami Sreeram
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Heart Center, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
*
Author for correspondence: Michael Huntgeburth, MD, Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Center, Clinic III for Internal Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Medical Faculty, Heart Center, University Hospital of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937Cologne, Germany. Tel: +49-221-478-32341; Fax: +49-221-478-32343. E-mail: michael.huntgeburth@uk-koeln.de
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Abstract

We report the case of a long-segment aortic atresia as the cause for therapy resistant arterial hypertension in a young adult. Recanalization was achieved interventionally by wire-crossing and stent implantation with subsequent normalization of blood pressure.

Keywords

arterial hypertensiontherapy-resistantaortic atresiainterventional treatmentrecanalisation
Type
Images in Congenital Cardiac Disease
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 30 , Issue 9 , September 2020 , pp. 1337 - 1338
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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