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Repair of coarctation in a right-sided circumflex retroesophageal aortic arch
T W Pettitt1, J Caspi, S K Sandhu
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, USA. twpettitt@aol.com
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|August 23, 2001
Abstract:
We describe an unusual case of a 3-month-old infant with normal cardiac situs and coarctation of the aorta occurring proximal to the right subclavian artery in the presence of a right-sided retroesophageal circumflex aortic arch and aberrant left subclavian artery. Preoperative evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging and conventional aortography led us to surgically approach this lesion through a right thoracotomy with a successful outcome.