Midaortic Syndrome |Overview
Midaortic Syndrome |Diagnosis & Treatment
How is midaortic syndrome diagnosed?
Clinicians use a number of tests to diagnose midaortic syndrome. In addition to measuring your child’s blood pressure, our doctors may recommend:
What are the treatment options for midaortic syndrome?
最好的治疗方法midaortic综合症depends on your child’s unique case. Our physicians will consider a number of factors in weighing treatment options, including:
- your child’s age and overall health
- specific symptoms
- which blood vessels are affected and how extensively
- whether your child also has renovascular hypertension
We may recommend one or more of the following treatments for your child:
- Medicationto control blood pressure and improve the function of the heart, kidneys or both
- Minimally invasive endovascular treatmentsthat offer faster recovery times, such as angioplasty or stenting (the placement of a special tube called a stent in a narrowed artery to hold it open).
- Bypass graft surgery, an operation that makes detours that go around narrowed arteries to create new paths for blood flow
- Autotransplantation, which moves one or both kidneys to a new location to improve blood flow
- Kidney transplant, which is performed when both kidneys are damaged to the point of causing irreversible kidney failure
MAGIC and TESLA Procedures
In addition, Boston Children's physicians have pioneered two surgical procedures to treat midaortic syndrome in eligible patients: MAGIC and TESLA. Watch the videos to learn more about these groundbreaking approaches.