title: Interrupted aorta diagnosed in a 51-year-old woman.
abstract: A 51-year-old lady presented with increasing heart failure symptoms and palpitations. She had recently been diagnosed with a congenital ventricular septal defect, bicuspid aortic valve, and Eisenmenger's syndrome. There was clinical evidence of right heart failure and differential clubbing and cyanosis affecting the feet but not hands. A cardiac magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated interruption of the aortic arch beyond the left subclavian artery, with the descending aorta perfused entirely through a large patent ductus arteriosus.
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Cardiology,Royal Perth Hospital,Wellington Street,Perth,Western Australia.
authors.forename: Nik
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stoyanov
authors.affiliation: 2Department of Cardiology,Adult Congenital Cardiac Centre,Royal Perth Hospital,Wellington Street,Perth,Western Australia.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bullock
authors.affiliation: 3Department of Cardiology,Royal Perth Hospital,Wellington Street,Perth,Western Australia.
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Erickson
mesh_terms: D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000002:abnormalities*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; D008875:Middle Aged