title: Figure-eight kinking of the aorta (pseudocoarctation) coexistent with coarctation.
abstract: An asymptomatic young man presented with a cardiac murmur and hypertension only in the right arm. Angiograms showed kinking of the aortic arch with a figure-eight appearance consistent with pseudocoarctation. Before the kinked segment, also demonstrated were a stenotic lesion in the aortic arch proximal to the left carotid artery and profound collateral circulations in the right thorax. These findings strongly suggested a rare combination of pseudocoarctation and true coarctation. His hypertension was corrected following surgery with a bypass graft between the ascending aorta and the abdominal aorta.
authors.affiliation: Section of Cardiology, Chang Gung Medical College, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Hung
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities*; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001027:Aortography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male