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Vascular dysfunction after repair of coarctation of the aorta: impact of early surgery.
Circulation - 18 Sept 2001
de Divitiis M, Pilla C, Kattenhorn M, Zadinello M, Donald A, Leeson P, Wallace S, Redington A, Deanfield J E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Patients with repaired coarctation are at increased risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease despite successful repair. We studied the function of conduit arteries in upper and lower limbs of patients late after successful coarctation repair and its relation to age at surgery. METHODS AND RESULTS: Flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) and the dilatation after sublingual nitroglycerin (NTG, 25...
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