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Double aneurysms of arch and descending aorta associated with right aortic arch
T Yasuda1, S Yamamoto, Y Ishida
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fukui Prefectural Hospital, Japan. yasuda@sf.m.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|November 18, 2000
Abstract:
We report a case of a 69-year-old man in whom double aortic aneurysms of the arch and descending aorta with a right aortic arch and mirror-image branching were diagnosed by three-dimensional computed tomography and aortography. These techniques are useful to assess the exact anatomy of the lesion and branches of the arch. The patient was successfully treated by a two-stage operation consisting of aortic arch replacement followed by descending aorta replacement.