Transesophageal echocardiographic diagnosis of aortic arch-left innominate vein fistula.
We present a patient with aortic arch-left innominate vein (LIV) fistula diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography. Also, an interrupted linear echo was noted within the dilated LIV with flow signals moving across the area of interruption, suggestive of left innominate vein pseudo-aneurysm or dissection. The patient subsequently underwent successful surgical repair of the fistula.
Vengala
Srinivas
S
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Sidhu
Maninder Singh
MS
Dod
Harvinder S
HS
Agrawal
Gopal
G
Singh
Vikramjit
V
Kirklin
James K
JK
D000328:Adult; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities*; D001164:Arteriovenous Fistula / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D016121:Brachiocephalic Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male