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Prenatal diagnosis and postnatal confirmation of coarctation of the aorta remain challenging despite improvements in fetal echocardiography.
Highlights the ongoing clinical challenge of accurately detecting coarctation of the aorta prenatally and postnatally to prevent adverse outcomes.
With improved imaging in foetal echocardiography, many types of congenital heart diseases can be detected prenatally allowing for care coordination and improved outcomes.1–3 Despite this significant improvement, prenatal diagnosis and postnatal confirmation of coarctation of the aorta remain challenging. Coarctation of the aorta is defined as a narrowing of the descending aorta, typically in the isthmus region where the ductus arteriosus inserts. Identifying coarctation of the aorta is critical as a missed diagnosis can lead to cardiac dysfunction, cardiogenic shock, adverse outcomes, and mortality.
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Lin et al. (2022) conducted an editorial in Coarctation of the aorta. Prenatal diagnosis and postnatal confirmation of coarctation of the aorta remain challenging despite improvements in fetal echocardiography.
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