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Aortic Coarctation Learning Center
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Aortic coarctation is a narrowing of part of the aorta (the major artery leading out of the heart. It is a type of birth defect. Coarctation means narrowing.
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Coarctation of the aorta (COA) is a congenital heart defect that develops in the fetus. It involves a constricture of the aorta, the main artery that delivers blood from the left ventricle of the heart to the rest of the body. In a constricture or...
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A defect that develops in the fetus in which there is a narrowing of the aortic arch, the main blood artery that delivers blood from the left ventricle of the heart to the rest of the body. Coarctation of the aorta is diagnosed in both newborns an...
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