Clinical data Arterial hypertension had been detected 6 months before, after study-related stress in a 16-year-old individual. At the time, diagnostic images (echocardiography and angiotomography) confirmed the presence of accentuated isthmic coarctation of the aorta, with many collaterals that filled the descending aorta. Blood pressure was 170/80 mmHg, which decreased to 130 to 150/80 mmHg with propranolol-80 mg/day. He had been previously submitted to surgery for atrial septal defect closure at 4 years of age. He reported fatigue at exertion […]