A 75-year-old female patient was admitted to the hospital because of persistent left-sided thoracic pain with projection to the left arm. [18] After exclusion of acute myocardial infarction or ...

Improvements in ultrasound equipment, systematic use of fetal echocardiographic protocols and the emergence of new ultrasound markers such as detection of aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA) mean ...

To the Editor: Kent and Poterucha (May 23 issue) 1 present excellent angiographic images of an aberrant right subclavian artery, which was causing intermittent dysphagia. However, it is our opinion ...

A 76-year-old woman presented with difficulty swallowing solid food and with shortness of breath. Her symptoms had developed over several months. She did not have odynophagia, had not experienced ...

A break at point A or B, with persistence of the right dorsal aortic root (RDAR), would result in a left aortic arch with either a blind pouch (point A) or a pouch giving origin to a retroesophageal ...

An understanding of the anatomical variations of the aortic arch and its associated arteries is critical in both clinical practice and surgical planning. The aortic arch—responsible for distributing ...

Interrupted aortic arch (IAA) is a serious congenital heart anomaly, often associated with other cardiac abnormalities which make its treatment complex. It is found, in at least one out of four cases, ...

Kieffer and colleagues reported the largest single-center series with 33 patients treated for a symptomatic or aneurysmal lusorian artery. [8] The authors also reported a classification of anomalies ...