A 1-month-old boy presents with failure to thrive. On examination, he shows features of congestive heart failure. The femoral pulses are feeble as compared to the brachial pulses. The most likely clinical diagnosis is: 

A 1-month-old boy presents with failure to thrive. On examination, he shows features of congestive heart failure. The femoral pulses are feeble as compared to the brachial pulses. The most likely clinical diagnosis is:  Correct Answer Coarctation of aorta

Concept-

• Children are diagnosed with failure to thive when thrie weight or rare of weight, and child is not growing as expected.
• Baby or child may take in enough food, but not be able to absorb enough nutrients and calorie
• Cause of failure to thrive is short height, behaviour problem and developmental delays.

Explanation-

• Coarctation of heart is a narrowing of the large blood vessel that leads from heart.
• The exact cause of coarctation is unknown. It results from abnormalities in developmental of the aorta prior  to birth
• It is diagnosed by electrocardiogram, CT, angiography
• Arotic coarctation is more common in certain genetic disorders people.

Additional Information

• Congenital Arotic Stenosis - it is a children congenital heart defect, cause by muscular obstruction, block the valve .
• Patent Ductus Arteriosus - it is opening between two blood vessels leading from the heart, most often in premature infants.
• Congenital Aortoiliac Disease – this disease happened when plaque builds up on the wall of iliac arteries it is caused by atherosclerosis.