Lessons from Jiri Vitek, MD, PhD on:

• Ostial Vertebral Artery Stenting

Endovascular stents in the management of coarctation of the aorta in the adolescent and adult: one year follow up
Harrison DA, et al.
Heart 2001;85:561-6
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11303011
Stents were placed in 27 patients (15 male and 12 female patients, mean age 30.1 (13.1) years), of whom seven had prior surgical coarctectomy and one had a prior balloon dilation. In this age group stent management for coarctation of the aorta appears to be an effective technique and results in sustained reduction in coarctation gradients at early term follow up, but aortic aneurysm was detected in 17% of patients who had repeat angiography