Abstract

We describe a case of adult coarctation of the aorta, which presented unusually as a poststenotic fusiform aneurysm in a 48-year-old female. She was normotensive and had a history of back pain and palpitations. Under partial cardiopulmonary bypass, the stenosis and the aneurysm were resected and replaced with a Dacron tube graft.

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