Hypoplastic circumflex retroesophageal right-sided cervical aortic arch with unusual vascular arrangement and severe coarctation.
We report the case of a 12-year-old boy with a hypoplastic retroesophageal circumflex right-sided cervical aortic arch and coarctation. After the incidental finding of a heart murmur when the boy was 9 years old, cardiac magnetic resonance showed a right-sided cervical aortic arch, hypoplastic transverse arch, and separate origin of the left common carotid, right common carotid, right vertebral, and right subclavian arteries. The left subclavian artery arose from the proximal descending aorta next to the coarctation. An extra-anatomical ascending to descending aorta tube graft was inserted through a right lateral thoracotomy with good results.
Ahluwalia
Gurpal S
GS
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Rashid
Abbas G
AG
Griselli
Massimo
M
Szczeklik
Michal
M
Rigby
Michael L
ML
Mohiaddin
Raad H
RH
Shore
Daryl F
DF
D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male