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Atherosclerotic aneurysm in the circumflex retroesophageal right aortic arch
R Tominaga1, T Nishida, S Morita
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyushu University, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan. tomina@heart.med.kyushu_u.ac.jp
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|June 28, 2001
Abstract:
A 63-year-old man had a distal arch aneurysm combined with a circumflex retroesophageal right aortic arch, which is a rare form of vascular ring. By using combined median sternotomy and left thoracotomy under deep hypothermia and retrograde cerebral perfusion, total arch replacement with a vascular graft was successful. We describe our surgical strategy for arch aneurysm associated with an uncommon congenital vascular malformation.