From Bare to Covered

Background Bare stents has become the first line therapy for aortic coarctation. Covered stents has been reported more recently in clinical practice. Objectives The present study, reports comparatively 15‐year experience of bare and covered stent implantation for aortic coarctation in a single tertiary referral center. Methods From 1997 to 2011, 143 patients with native or postoperative aortic coarctation were treated at our institution....