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Evaluating the severity of aortic coarctation in infants using anatomic features measured on CTA.

Yiming YuYubo WangMaoqing YangMeiping HuangJun LiQianjun JiaJian ZhuangLiyu Huang
Published in: European radiology (2020)
• CTA is routinely ordered for infants with coarctation of the aorta; however, whether anatomical variations observed with CTA could be used to assess the severity of CoA remains unknown. • Using the diameter and area of the coarctation site adjusted to body growth as features, the LDA model achieved an accuracy of 88.6% and 90.2% in differentiating between the mild and severe CoA patients in the non-PDA group and PDA group, respectively. • The narrowest aortic diameter (CoA diameter) indexed to weight has a hazard ratio of 10.29 for re-coarctation.
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