Giant aortic arch aneurysm after interrupted aortic arch repair.
An 8-year-old boy developed a large aneurysm of the aortic arch after neonatal complete repair of interrupted aortic arch type B and closure of a perimembranous ventricular septal defect. To our knowledge, this unusual complication has not been previously reported in the English literature.
Ghosh
Alakananda
A
Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Comer Children's Hospital, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637-1470, USA.
Liu
Amy
A
Mora
Bassem
B
Agarwala
Brojendra
B
D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016896:Treatment Outcome