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Aortic stenting in the growing sheep causes aortic endothelial dysfunction but not hypertension: Clinical implications for coarctation repair

Nicola Maschietto¹, Luca Semplicini², Giulio Ceolotto², Arianna Cattelan², Helen Poser³, Ilaria Iacopetti³, Gabriele Gerardi³, Giulia Maria De Benedictis³, Tommaso Pilla³, Daniele Bernardini³, Luca Aresu⁴, Stefania Rizzo⁵, Cristina Basso⁵, Andrea Semplicini², Ornella Milanesi¹

1 Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
2 Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
3 Department of Animal Medicine, Production and Health, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
4 Department of Comparative BioMedicine and Food Science, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
5 Cardiovascular Pathology Unit, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Italy

* Corresponding Author: Nicola Maschietto, MD, PhD, Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 3, I – 35128 Padua, Padova, Italy. Email: