Mission-based cardiac surgery and catheter treatment of coarctation of aorta in the young and older children: a facility based review of cases in Addis Ababa

摘要

Coarctation of the aorta is a congenital narrowing of the descending aorta. Hemodynamic derangement will be corrected with reopening of the narrowing either by surgery or catheter ballooning. There are few reports of post-operative cases in developing countries. The goal of this review is to describe the follow-up profile of cases in a setting with limited resource.