What's the difference between aorta and coarctation?
Aorta
Definition:
(n.) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
Example Sentences:
(1) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
(2) An innovative magnetic resonance imaging technique was applied to the measurement of blood flow in the abdominal aorta.
(3) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(4) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.
(5) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
(6) Biosyntheses of TXA2 and PGI2 were carried out using arachidonic acid as a substrate and horse platelet and aorta microsomes as sources of TXA2 and PGI2 synthetases respectively.
(7) In the highest concentration tested, two other reagents 2,4-dimethoxybenzylamine and N-acetylimidazole, did not influence the activity of the steroisomers on aorta.
(8) To gain more information about sources of activator Ca2+ involved in the contraction of rat and guinea-pig aorta evoked by angiotensin II and their sensitivity to Ca2+ entry blockers, measurement of slowly exchanging 45Ca2+ was established.
(9) With a series of 117 aortic valve replacements, the authors have examined the results in relation to the method of protecting the myocardium while the aorta is clamped off.
(10) Emergency CT showed evidence of pericardial effusion suggesting hemopericardium, enlargement of the ascending aorta and a peripheral semilunar filling defect which caused a slight deformation of the true channel.
(11) In order to study the vascular and adrenal renin angiotensin system in the chronic phase (4 months after clipping) of 'two-kidney, one-clip' hypertension in rats, systolic blood pressure, plasma renin activity, and tissue renin-like activity in both aorta and adrenal have been measured.
(12) Arteriosclerotic plaques were found in the aorta and arteries of rabbits given homocysteine thiolactone, methionine or homocysteic acid, both parenterally and in a synthetic diet.
(13) A neonate, with a postconceptual age of 29 weeks, suffered thrombosis of the aorta as a consequence of umbilical artery catheterisation.
(14) Trimazosin at the dose used and under the conditions of study did not reverse the peripheral pressor effect of angiotensin II or B-HT920 but at higher concentrations, unlike prazosin, it relaxed the K+ contracted thoracic aorta.
(15) The relaxations in response to a nonreceptor-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilator, A23187, and an endothelium-independent vasodilator, sodium nitroprusside, were not different between normal and diabetic aortas.
(16) The contents of esterified cholesterol and elastin in the aorta were higher in the control group than in the milk-fed group by 28 an 94 per cent, respectively.
(17) In rabbit aorta, pretreatment with 2-aminoisoquinoline, 1.3 (2H.4H)-dione (AQ, 10(-5) M and 10(-4) M) shifted the concentration-response relationship to noradrenaline (NA, 10(-9) M to 10(-4) M) in a parallel manner whereas the agent (10(-4) M) failed to affect the response to potassium and only slightly depressed Ca2+-induced contractions in a Ca2+-free medium in the presence of K+ (40 mM).
(18) Thus, the carotid pulse tracing provides an accurate reproduction of the morphology of the pressure tracing recorded from the ascending aorta, and when calibrated by peripheral blood pressure measurement, it can be used to calculate LV pressure throughout ejection.
(19) The part of the aorta wall that was removed showed signs of arterioschlerosis obliterans.
(20) In blood, ablation of porcine aorta was feasible at a distance of 3 mm.
Coarctation
Definition:
(n.) Confinement to a narrow space.
(n.) Pressure; that which presses.
(n.) A stricture or narrowing, as of a canal, cavity, or orifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(2) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.
(3) Long prosthetic graft was anastomosed in an end-to-side fashion to bypass the coarctated aorta.
(4) Twenty-four patients had uncomplicated ventricular septal defect, 2 had single ventricle, 5 had transposition of the great arteries, 5 had atrioventricular canal defects, and 2 had coarctation of the aorta and ventricular septal defect.
(5) Acute aortic dissection, aortic aneurysm formation and aortic valve disease complicate the surgical treatment of adult coarctation and hypertension may persist in as many as 50% of patients.
(6) The diagnosis based on physical ECG and X-rays was correct in only 42% of cases, and was most accurate in children with transposition of the great arteries, syndrome of Fallot, coarctation of the aorta and ventricular septal defects.
(7) The principal long-term complication is recurrence of the coarctation resulting from the absence of growth at the anastomosis.
(8) In the seven remaining patients, coarctation was excluded.
(9) Associated lesions were coarctation (n = 2) and patent ductus arteriosus (n = 2).
(10) In the remainder a wide spectrum of abnormalities was found such as prolapse of the mitral valve (in 13.6%), bicuspid aortal valve with a medium regurgitation (4.5%), hypoplasia of the coronary cusp of the aortal valve (4.5%), dilatation of the ascending aorta with a residual significant stenosis at the site after operation of coarctation of the thoracic aorta (4.5%), subaortal defect of the interventricular septum (4.5%) and slight left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with arterial hypertension (9.1%).
(11) We report an unusual case of association of aortic coarctation with a calcified thrombus at the site of coarctation.
(12) These were estimated 1. for stepwise aortic coarctation and 2. for aortic nerve stimulation under pressure clamp conditions.
(13) Five cases of coarctation were overlooked on the prenatal echocardiogram but these were found at follow up of the infants.
(14) Through our experience and a review, we have observed that neonates requiring coarctation repair, pulmonary artery banding, and patent ductus ligation are at high risk of expiring before reaching an age at which a difficult total repair is feasible.
(15) Values were expressed as the ratio between the kidney with the lower uptake and the contralateral one in 34 patients and as the ratio of the kidney counts to the injected dose in five patients with solitary kidneys, aortic coarctation, or both.
(16) An unusual post-coarctation mycotic aortic aneurysm that had eroded into the left main stem bronchus was identified and replaced with a Dacron graft.
(17) The post-mortem examination showed a lesion of the intima and media at the coarctation site, and it seemed that the adventitia alone was what prevented rupture of the vessel.
(18) In addition, aortic disorders such as acute dissection, coarctation and atherosclerotic disease could be delineated.
(19) Few data exist which address the significance of the Doppler gradient across a residual narrowing in older children who have had a coarctation repaired.
(20) The authors studied the immediate and late-term results of surgical treatment of aortic coarctation in patients after the age of 35 years.