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Objective: In this study, clinical features, and follow-up results of pediatric patients with aortic coarctation were examined.
Material and Methods: The echocardiography records of our clinic were reviewed and the patients who were diagnosed with aortic coarctation between January 2000 and January 2017 were determined. The medical records of the patients were retrospectively evaluated and demographic (age, gender, etc.) and clinical features (complaints, accompanying structural heart disease, etc.) and follow-up results (treatment applications, treatment results, etc.) were obtained.
Results: Data of the 98 patients were analyzed. Eighty-two (83.7%) of the patients were diagnosed and treated initially in our clinic. The most common complaint was murmur (42.8%) and the least common complaint was hypertension (1.02%). At first presentation, 10 (10.2%) of the patients had clinical signs of heart failure. Dilated cardiomyopathy was detected in nine patients (9.1%) at diagnosis. The coarctation was isolated in 20.4% of the patients, while the remaining patients had at least one congenital heart disease. Thirty-six of the patients were treated by balloon angioplasty in our clinic, eight patients were treated surgically, and four patients were treated with stent implantation.
Conclusion: Coarctation of the aorta is one of the common congenital heart diseases. In patients who underwent balloon angioplasty, the recoarctation rate is high, but it is an effective method that corrects the patient's clinical condition in the early period. Surgery is an efficient method. Stent angioplasty can be recommended in older children and adolescents.