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Ann Thorac Surg 1986;42:488-493
© 1986 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Infant Coarctation: A Spectrum in Clinical Presentation and Treatment

From the Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

^* Address reprint requests to Dr. Yee, Department of Surgery, 896 M University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143

Between 1975 and 1985, 125 infants 2 to 365 days old (majority, 30 days old or less) with coarctation of the aorta underwent surgical repair. Forty-seven patients (38%) had severe congestive heart failure (CHF), metabolic acidosis, and poor systemic perfusion. The predominant operative technique was synthetic patch aortoplasty (100 patients); the remaining 25 had an end-to-end anastomosis. There were no operative deaths. Perioperative complications were minimized with the synthetic patch technique (less than 15%). For patients surviving at least 3 months after repair, the arm-leg systolic blood pressure gradient was relieved in 82% (71/87) of the patients having patch aortoplasty versus 65% (15/23) of the patients with end-to-end anastomosis. Although the rate of reoperation between the two groups was similar (patch, 5 [6%]; end-to-end, 3 [13%], two of the reoperations in the patch group were for preexisting hypoplastic transverse aortic arch. Late deaths (20 patients, 16%) were due to other major associated cardiac anomalies. Patch aneurysms have not occurred.

Expedient use of synthetic patch aortoplasty has decreased perioperative complications, relieved coarctation gradients for CHF, increased early survival even in the presence of complex or associated cardiac anomalies, and has an acceptable rate of recurrent coarctation (6 to 13%).

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