Chandrashekar C

Coarctation of the aorta as the presenting cardiovascular manifestation of Williams syndrome in an infant.

Williams syndrome (WS) is a multisystem genetic disorder caused by a 7q11.23 microdeletion and is classically associated with supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS) and peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis. We report a male infant in whom discrete juxtaductal coarctation of the aorta (CoA) was incidentally detected durin...