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Right aortic arch, right ligamentum, absent left pulmonary artery: a rare vascular ring
A Dodge-Khatami1, C L Backer, M E Dunham
1Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School, The Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 4, 1999
Abstract:
A 5-month-old infant presented with respiratory failure secondary to severe right bronchial compression. Diagnostic imaging revealed a right aortic arch and absent left pulmonary artery. Surgical relief was obtained via median sternotomy by dividing a right ligamentum and pexing the enlarged right pulmonary artery to the ascending aorta.