Natural history of coarctation of the aorta
AUTOR(ES)
Campbell, Maurice
RESUMO
With the increasing number of subjects with coarctation of the aorta having operations, its natural history becomes more difficult to determine. The expectation of life has been calculated by two quite independent methods: (1) from 304 reported necropsies, and (2) from 22 deaths among 161 subjects followed for 716 patient-years. These were mostly patients rather than unselected school-children, but many were quite free from symptoms and were sent only because a murmur was heard on examination.
