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Diastolic velocity half time is associated with aortic coarctation gradient at catheterization independent of echocardiographic and clinical blood pressure gradients

Adam B. Christopher¹, Abraham Apfel², Tao Sun², Jackie Kreutzer¹, David S. Ezon³

1 Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2 Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3 Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York

* Corresponding Author: Adam Christopher, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, One Children’s Hospital Drive, 4401 Penn Avenue, 5th Floor Faculty Pavilion, Pittsburgh, PA 15224. Email: