A successful balloon angioplasty procedure in a 1050 gram premature infant with coarctation of the aorta

Mustafa Argun; Abdullah Özyurt; Özge Pamukçu; Osman Baştuğ; Işın Güneş; Kazım Üzüm

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.9757

Mustafa Argun¹, Abdullah Özyurt¹, Özge Pamukçu¹, Osman Baştuğ², Işın Güneş³, Kazım Üzüm¹

Departments of Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Faculty of Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
¹Departments of Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Faculty of Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
²Departments of Neonatology, Medical Faculty of Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
³Departments of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Medical Faculty of Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2014.9757

Surgery is the primary treatment of aortic coarctation in all newborns, including low birth weight premature infants. Balloon angioplasty procedure in the treatment of native coarctation of the newborn is controversial due to high rates of restenosis and complications such as increased risk of aneurysm formation and damage to the peripheral artery involved in the intervention. Balloon angioplasty is often performed as a palliative treatment particularly in newborns with impaired cardiac functions indicating high rates of mortality. We believe that this procedure may be performed as a palliative treatment for low birth weight infants in centers lacking adequate surgical experience. Herein, we define a successful balloon angioplasty procedure which we carried out using the femoral artery route in a low birth weight premature infant with coarctation of the aorta.

Keywords : Balloon angioplasty; coarctation of the aorta; low birth weight; premature

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