Surgical treatment of coarctation of the aorta with hypoplastic aortic arch

Seventy years passed from the day of the first successful surgical correction of aortic coarctation, but the incidence of recoarctation remains fairly high. One of the main causes of recoarctation is accompanying hypoplasia of the aortic arch, which is present in 60-81% of newborn patients. This review focuses on the challenges of diagnosing concomitant hypoplastic arch, diagnostic criteria for this condition as well as surgical and endovascular methods of its correction.