Management of adults with coarctation of aorta

Figure 7 Doppler echocardiographic findings in coarctation of aorta. A: Continuous wave Doppler across the coarctation segment in suprastenrtal view demonstrating significant increase in flow velocity with a peak velocity of 4 m/s, comparable to a peak gradient of 64 mmHg based on simplified Bernoulli’s equation; B: Abnormal Doppler pattern in abdominal aorta in a patient with severe coarctation demonstrating blunted velocity with delayed systolic upstroke and continuous diatonic run-off.