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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"coarctation of the aorta"”.
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Growth in a computational planning pipeline for treatment in patient-specific coarctation of the aorta
Coarctation of the Aorta (CoA) is a Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) that is present at birth and is usually detected in the early years of the child. In the individualized treatment of a CoA patient, a non-severe case which initially exhibits no symptoms, and thus no treatment is necessary, could …
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The Development of a Patient-Specific, Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics Tool to Comprehensively and Innovatively Study Coarctation of the Aorta in a Limited Resource Clinical Context
… heart disease (CHD) has a global prevalence of 8 per 1000 births [1] and coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is one of the most common defects with a prevalence of 7% of all cases. The occurrence of CHD in Africa is estimated to be significantly lower, which is attributed to a lack of data [2]. …
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Evaluation of Recurrence Risks For Left-Sided Cardiac Lesions
… or without bicuspid aortic valve (AS/BAV) and coarctation of the aorta (CoA) occur in families more commonly with each other than with any other congenital heart defect (CHD). Genetic counseling for CHDs is currently based on empiric risk estimates derived from data collected on all types of …
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Outcome after palliative cardiac surgery in a developing country
The outcome of 121 children who underwent palliative cardiac surgery at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital over a 5 year period, 1980 1984, was retrospectively examined. 79 children had systemic artery to pulmonary artery shunt operations (SPS), 40 had pulmonary artery bands (PAB) and 2 …