Gareth J. Morgan1, Matteo Ciuffreda2, Isabella Spadoni3, Joseph DeGiovanni4
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.13, No.3, pp. 458-462, 2018, DOI:10.1111/chd.12596
Abstract Aim: To assess the acute results of the first human use of the Optimus covered stent in complex
coarctation of the aorta.
Methods and Results: We successfully implanted the Optimus covered stent in eight cases in
patients whose preprocedural anatomy looked challenging for currently available covered stents. Six
of the patients had native coarctation with one recoarctation following surgical repair. There were
no significant complications with reduction in the mean invasive gradient from 22 to 1 mm Hg. The
length of stents used ranged from 33 to 57 mm with a median shortening after expansion of 13%. More >
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