Single therapeutic catheterization to treat coexisting coarctation of the aorta and patent ductus arteriosus.

Am J Cardiol

Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston 77030, USA.

Published: February 1997

A case of a pediatric patient found to have coexisting coarctation of the aorta and patent ductus arteriosus who underwent balloon dilation of the coarctation and coil occlusion of the ductus in a single cardiac catheterization is presented. Review of the English literature revealed no previous reports of this combination of transcatheter interventions during a single catheterization procedure.

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