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SUBMITTER: Sonawane BS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8788633 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sonawane Bhushan S BS Pavithran Sreeja S Sivakumar Kothandam K
Texas Heart Institute journal 20211101 5
Coral reef aorta is a rare calcifying obstructive disease that involves the thoracoabdominal aorta. Similar presentations in the postsubclavian aorta may result in acquired atheromatous aortic coarctation leading to systemic hypertension and heart failure. The associated calcification makes surgical anatomic or extraanatomic bypass and thromboendarterectomy challenging. Extensive circumferential calcification often precludes endovascular intervention. We present the case of a 25-year-old man wit ...[more]