Coarctation Long-term Assessment (COALA): Significance of arterial hypertension in a cohort of 404 patients up to 27 years after surgical repair of isolated coarctation of the aorta, even in the absence of restenosis and prosthetic material Alfred Hager, MD, Simone Kanz, MD, Harald Kaemmerer, MD, VMD, FESC, Christian Schreiber, MD, John Hess, MD, FESC The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Volume 134, Issue 3, Pages 738-745.e2 (September 2007) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.04.027 Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Prevalence of hypertension after coarctation repair. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2007 134, 738-745.e2DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.04.027) Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Prevalence of hypertension (antihypertensive drugs, hypertension at ambulatory blood pressure measurement, or hypertension at exercise) according to use of prosthetic material to repair the coarctation and according to the noninvasively measured systolic brachial–ankle blood pressure difference. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2007 134, 738-745.e2DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.04.027) Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure E1 Kaplan–Meier curve of survival according to age at surgical intervention, depicting a prominent early mortality in those patients who underwent coarctation repair at less than 1 year caused probably by the lack of preoperative prostaglandin in those days and depicting a prominent late mortality in patients who underwent surgical intervention at greater than 20 years. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2007 134, 738-745.e2DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.04.027) Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions
Figure E2 Surgical technique according to age at surgical intervention and study status (dead, not studied, and studied). The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2007 134, 738-745.e2DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.04.027) Copyright © 2007 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions