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Hypertension in aortic coarctation

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Aortic coarctation (AoC) is a common congenital heart defect, affecting 5%8% of patients with structural congenital anomalies. Despite advances in surgical and percutaneous interventions, hypertension remains a significant complication in AoC patients, even after successful repair.

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Medtronic Presents New Data, Clinical Milestones at CRT 2025

DAIC

Among Medtronic's Structural Heart and Aortic key data milestones,Dr. The presentation addressed the two-year results of the SMall Annuli Randomized To Evolut or SAPIENTrial, which evaluated a valve performance in individuals with aortic stenosiswith small aortic annulusin patients treated with either EvolutTAVR platform or SAPIENplatform.

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An undergraduate who is an EKG tech sees something. The computer calls it completely normal. How about the physicians?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

A 63 year old man with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, prediabetes, and a family history of CAD developed chest pain, shortness of breath, and diaphoresis after consuming a large meal at noon. He called EMS, who arrived on scene about two hours after the onset of pain to find him hypertensive at 220 systolic.

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Should you measure blood pressure in both arms?

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

Guidelines on hypertension (high blood pressure) generally recommend measurement of blood pressure in both arms in the initial visit. They also suggest that the arm with higher blood pressure recording should be used to record blood pressure in subsequent visits.

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Artificial intelligence-based, non-invasive assessment of the central aortic pressure in adults after operative or interventional treatment of aortic coarctation

Open Heart

Background Aortic coarctation (CoA) is a congenital anomaly leading to upper-body hypertension and lower-body hypotension. Despite surgical or interventional treatment, arterial hypertension may develop and contribute to morbidity and mortality. years, with all patients having undergone previous aortic surgery or intervention.

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Inducing hypertension in Myh11R247C/R247C mice triggers aortic dissections with increased focal adhesion kinase signaling

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Myh11R247C/R247C aortas have aberrant smooth muscle contractile unit-elastin connections by transmission electron microscopy, along with increased focal adhesion signaling at baseline, which further increases with hypertension.ConclusionGene-environment interactions trigger aortic dissections in Myh11R247C/R247C mice.

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Potential Long-Term Benefit of Home Systolic Blood Pressure Below 125 mm?Hg for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction: The J-HOP Study Extended

Hypertension Journal

Hypertension, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:The long-term benefit of achieving the Japanese Society of Hypertension home systolic blood pressure (SBP) target of <125 mm Hg has not been fully evaluated. 2.00] for overall cardiovascular disease and 2.68 [95% CI, 1.34–5.38]