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Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Congenital kinking of aorta
  1. Muralidharan Thodi Ramamurthy,
  2. Vinod Kumar Balakrishnan,
  3. Sunny Anand Nesan David,
  4. Hema Sundar Korrapati
  1. Department of Cardiology, Sri Ramachandra University Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sunny Anand Nesan David, sunnynesan{at}gmail.com

Summary

Pseudocoarctation is an unusual anomaly mirroring true coarctation. Congenital kinking or pseudocoarctation of aorta was never a benign condition. Although surgical repair should be suggested for all symptomatic individuals. Regular follow-up is obligatory for all asymptomatic patients deprived of linked anomalies. We suggest CT-aortogram as a non-invasive imaging modality for the definitive diagnosis of pseudocoarctation.

  • cardiovascular medicine
  • medical education
  • radiology (diagnostics)

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-220896

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    • Contributors MTR and SAND contributed to the conception or design of the work. VKB evaluated acquisition, analysis of case report. HSK did the drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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