title: Left cervical aortic arch associated with aortic aneurysm, aortic coarctation, and branch artery aneurysm--a case report and review.
abstract: Cervical aortic arch (CAA) is a rare congenital aortic anomaly. Although, in CAA, other cardiovascular abnormalities including aortic aneurysm and aortic coarctation are occasionally accompanied, coexistence of those 2 aortic abnormalities on the same patient is rare, and moreover, association of the aneurysm of branching artery has not been reported. The authors present here the first patient with CAA who had both an aneurysm and a coarctation in the aortic arch, and further, another aneurysm in the left subclavian artery. Clinical characteristics of CAA with either aortic aneurysm or aortic coarctation are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Nagasaki, Japan.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tsukamoto
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Seto
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moriya
authors.forename: Katsusuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yano
mesh_terms: D000783:Aneurysm / Q000150:complications*; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000150:complications*; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013348:Subclavian Artery