Endovascular surgery in treatment of some congenital heart defects BG Alekyan, VP Podzolkov, VA Garibyan, MG Pursanov, KE Kardenas, and E Yu Danilov

Transluminal balloon angioplasty for coarctation and recoarctation of the aorta Material and methods From 1985 to 2006, 208 transluminal balloon angioplasties (TLBAPs) were carried out in 194 patients with coarctation syndrome. There were 136 (70.1%) patients with aortic coarctation and 58 (29.8%) with recoarctation. The patients were assigned to two groups: group 1 – 93 (70%) patients with membranous type of coarctation, and group 2 – 41 (30%) patients with hypoplastic type of coarctation.