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(Circulation. 1995;91:1263.)
© 1995 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Coarctation of the Aorta and Ventricular Septal Defect

Walter H. Johnson, Jr, MD; Tandaw E. Samdarski, MD

From the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Correspondence to Walter H. Johnson, Jr, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 320 Hillman Bldg, 620 S 20th St, Birmingham, AL 35233.

Key Words: Cardiovascular Images • coarctation • defects

	Introduction

 

View larger version (101K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Shown is a cineangiogram (posteroanterior [left] and lateral [right] projections) of a contrast injection into the ascending aorta of a 4-kg, 8-week-old boy who presented with severe congestive heart failure. A 7F (2.3-mm-diameter) NIH cardiovascular catheter was advanced from the femoral vein, through the right atrium, right ventricle, ventricular septal defect, and bicuspid aortic valve, to the ascending aorta. A tight coarctation exists just distal to the left subclavian artery origin. Contrast outlines the high-velocity jet of blood passing through the stenosis to the descending aorta.

	Footnotes

 
The editor of Images in Cardiovascular Medicine is Hugh A. McAllister, Jr, MD, Chief, Department of Pathology, St Luke's Hospital and Texas Heart Institute, and Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of Texas Medical School and Baylor College of Medicine.