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Repair of type B interrupted aortic arch using aberrant right subclavian artery
Stephen Westaby1, Anand Agarwal, Jakub Kadlec
1Department of Congenital Cardiac Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. swestaby@ahf.org.uk
Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
|June 5, 2009
Abstract:
Interrupted type B aortic arch was repaired using aberrant right subclavian artery. In order to gain the full length of this vessel it was mobilised from a left thoracotomy. The aberrant vessel provides autogenous patch material with which to enlarge the ascending aorta and left common carotid artery.
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