recoarctation is usually successfully done without the need for open-heart surgery. recoarctation is increasingly less common in the modern era. late hypertension does also seem to be much less of a problem if the coarctation repair was performed within the first 5 years of life. life expectancy and quality of life are therefore the same or very close to that of the normal population, but check ups are recommended so that those few percent who need further treatment get it in time. history the condition was largely unidentified until the mid-20th century. history of the condition prior to 1945 has been understood via post-mortem records, the first series of which was published in 1928, which examined cases as far back as 1791. the first surgery for coarctation of the aorta was performed by clarence crafoord and g. nylin on october 19, 1944 in stockholm, sweden on a 12-year old boy. an anecdotal history statement describes the first diagnosed case of the coarctation of the aorta in julia the daughter of the french poet alphonse de lamartine after the autopsy in 1832 in beirut, the referenced manuscript still exists in one of the maronite monasteries in mount lebanon.