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Aortic coarctation comprises roughly 7% of all known congenital heart defects, with an approximate frequency of 0.04% of live births. It is usually a discrete stenosis in the region of the ligamentum arteriosus. It may be associated with diffuse hypoplasia of the aortic arch and isthmus. Isolated aortic coarctation may occur in 82% of cases and is the commonest detected in adults.
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Filho, R.I.R., Manica, J.L.L. (2019). Aortic Coarctation. In: Butera, G., Chessa, M., Eicken, A., Thomson, J.D. (eds) Atlas of Cardiac Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72443-0_14
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