"Aortic Coarctation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A birth defect characterized by the narrowing of the AORTA that can be of varying degree and at any point from the transverse arch to the iliac bifurcation. Aortic coarctation causes arterial HYPERTENSION before the point of narrowing and arterial HYPOTENSION beyond the narrowed portion.
| Descriptor ID |
D001017
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C14.240.400.090 C14.280.400.090 C16.131.240.400.090
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| Concept/Terms |
Aortic Coarctation- Aortic Coarctation
- Aortic Coarctations
- Coarctation, Aortic
- Coarctations, Aortic
- Coarctation of the Aorta
- Coarctation of Aorta
- Aorta Coarctation
- Aorta Coarctations
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Aortic Coarctation" by people in Profiles.
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Sivanandam S, Nyholm J, Wey A, Bass JL. Right Ventricular Enlargement In Utero: Is It Coarctation? Pediatr Cardiol. 2015 Oct; 36(7):1376-81.
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Muppidi S, Ngeny G, Onwuanyi A. Coarctation of aorta with normal blood pressure. J Natl Med Assoc. 2011 Feb; 103(2):173-5.