Overview
- A multidisciplinary INCOR and Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati team treated a 40-day-old premature newborn weighing 1,600 grams for coarctation of the aorta using a hybrid catheter stent introduced through the carotid artery.
- Surgeons opened neck (carotid) access under general anesthesia while pediatric interventional cardiologists threaded a catheter and deployed a small metal stent to widen the narrowed aortic segment.
- INCOR reports the procedure restored normal aortic flow and cardiac function and the infant is improving but remains hospitalized to gain weight before discharge.
- Hospital officials said this is the first time in Peru that a hybrid carotid-access stent procedure has been done in a newborn of this low weight, reflecting expanded local treatment options for complex neonatal heart defects.
- The case required close coordination among cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, neonatology, intensive care and anesthesia teams and could reduce the need to refer similar high‑risk infants to centers abroad.