title: Right circumflex retro-oesophageal aortic arch with coarctation of a high-positioned right arch.
abstract: We present a rare case of right circumflex retro-oesophageal aortic arch with coarctation of a high-positioned right arch. A 7-month-old boy presented with a cardiac murmur. Cardiac situs was normal and there was no evidence of an intracardiac shunt or patent ductus arteriosus. MR aortography revealed a right aortic arch that was high-positioned, tortuous and narrowed. This right aortic arch crossed the midline behind the oesophagus and continued as a left-sided descending aorta. The left common carotid and subclavian arteries arose from a large branching vascular structure that derived from the top of the left-sided descending aorta. The right common carotid artery arose from the ascending aorta. The proximal portion of the right common carotid artery showed very severe stenosis and poststenotic dilatation. The right subclavian artery originated distal to the narrowed and tortuous segment of the aortic arch.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Korea University Guro Hospital, 97 Guro-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul, 152-703 South Korea.
authors.forename: Kyung-Sik
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: Hwan Seok
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Yong
authors.forename: Joo-Won
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Ok Hee
authors.initials: OH
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.forename: Eun-Young
authors.initials: EY
authors.lastname: Kang
mesh_terms: D001015:Aortic Arch Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography; D008297:Male