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Surgical treatment of coarctation of the aorta with minimal collateral circulation.

Twenty-four aortic coarctation patients with minimal collaterals were operated on. Left-side bypass was used in 18 cases, internal shunt in 4, while a jump graft ws inserted in 2 cases. These methods were applied when the distal aortic pressure fell below 50 mmHg systolic during test clamping. The coarctation was corrected with isthmusplasty in 12 cases, resection and end-to-end anastomosis in 5 cases, resection with prosthetic replacement in 5 cases and jump graft in 2 cases. The operative mortality was 2 patients (8.3%). One patient died of complications of a post-perfusion bleeding tendency; the other, who had concomitant aortic insufficiency, died of cerebral infarction and pneumonia. At follow-up examination, the blood pressure difference between the upper and lower extremities had disappeared in all cases. The blood pressure was still over 150 mmHg systolic in 9 patients, 8 of whom received anti-hypertensive medication. One patient died during the follow-up period, while waiting for an operation for aortic insufficiency.