A congenital cardiovascular malformation in which there is a discrete luminal narrowing of the junction between the aortic arch and the descending aorta.
Additional information: 'Coarctation of the aorta' generally indicates a narrowing of the descending thoracic aorta just distal to the left subclavian artery. However, the term may also be accurately used to refer to a region of narrowing anywhere in the thoracic or abdominal aorta.
Also indexed as
Coarctation of aortaCoarctation of the abdominal aortaCoarctation of the descending thoracic aortaDescending thoracic or abdominal aortic coarctationPostductal coarctation of aortaPreductal coarctation of aortaabdominal aortic coarctationaortic coarctationmiddle aortic syndrome
Nearby in Congenital anomaly of aorta or its branches