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KMID : 0364019760090020276
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Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
1976 Volume.9 No. 2 p.276 ~ p.286
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Coarctation of the Aorta in Adult
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李正浩/Lee, Jung Ho
柳會性/柳秀雄/李學重/Yu, Hoe Sung/Yoo, Soo Woong/Lee, Hak Choong
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Abstract
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Coaretation of the aorta is an important congenital cardivascular defect, which occurs in significant minber of persons.
The basic anatomic defect is a localizes defomity of the media, manifested by two types of strictures in the aorta: "true" coarctation and tubular hypoplasia.
The zone of coarctation is characteristically located distal to the origin of left subclavian artery at or just beyond the insertion of the ligamentum arteriosum.
It shortens life if untreated, but it can be corrected to render the patient functionally normal.
Here we have a 2-year operative experiences with 3 Cases of the aortic coarctation, two or hypoplastic type and one of postductal type, at age of 17 to 19 year old Korean, operated in 1965 and 1968 at the National Medical Center. The purpases of this report are to describe the immediate and late effect of surgery, histopatholagic bases and the rarity of this lesions in Korea.
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