Lindinger A, Volkmer I, Reichert H, Hoffmann W
Department of Pediatric Cardiology of the University Children's Hospital, D-66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany.
Pediatr Cardiol. 1997 Mar-Apr;18(2):146-8. doi: 10.1007/s002469900137.
A boy with atresia of the aortic isthmus suffered dissection of the aneurysmatic ascending aorta. It is assumed that he had coarctation as a newborn and survived the subsequently developed atresia because of extensive collateralization.