Coarctation of the aorta in pregnancy is a rare clinical scenario, with few cases reported in the literature.
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Requires vigilance for this rare entity during pregnancy; extends sparse case reports but leaves management strategies undefined.
Coarctation of the aorta is an uncommon finding in adults and shows its higher incidence in males in a proportion of 3 males to 1 female The association of this anomaly with pregnancy must therefore be of some rarity. Benham (1949) was able to find records of only 53 cases in the literature and added three personal reports. To these can be added the following cases:
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L. Rosenthal (1955) studied this question.
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