Long-Term Complications After Aortic Coarctation Stenting

“Over the last many decades, whether you're talking about surgical or transcatheter therapy, we've seen over and over again that this condition is a lifelong condition, with significant morbidity to go with it. You can't just stop following these patients. You have to keep following them up and be vigilant that problems happen.”

“I believe some of the complications we continue to see from implanting stents in children are due to their ongoing growth and development. In fact, some re-interventions are therefore not really complications of the procedure, but instead are anticipated elective treatments to expand stents to accommodate interval growth.”