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What are the complications of aortic coarctation ?

What are the complications of aortic coarctation ? •Severe hypertension and resulting complications: • Stroke. • -Premature coronary artery disease. • Left ventricular failure (two thirds of patients over the age of 40 years who have • uncorrected aortic coarctatioh have symptoms of heart failure). • Rupture of aorta. • Infective endocarditis endarteritis (at the site of the coarctation or on a con-genitally bicuspid aortic valve). • Intracranial haemorrhage (combination of hypertension and ruptured berry aneurysm). • Three quarters die by the age of 50, and 90% by the age of 60 (Bt Heart J 1970: 32: 63340).

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