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Endovascular Treatment with Arch Vessel Reconstruction on Patients with Kommerell Diverticulum and Aberrant Left
Issaka Zalle1, Zied M Zouche2, Nicolas d'Ostrevy3
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Gabriel Montpied University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Abstract:
No guidelines for the treatment of Kommerell diverticulum (KD) have been established. Endovascular treatment with arch vessel reconstruction of 4 patients with a right-sided aortic arch and aberrant left subclavian artery are presented herein. A 39-year-old woman and 47-year-old man experienced dyspnea and retrosternal pain. The first patient concomitantly underwent left subclavian transposition and thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR). The second patient underwent bilateral carotid-subclavian bypass grafting, followed by TEVAR and KD embolization. The 2 other patients were 72- and 75-year old men who presented with KD and type B dissection, in which these conditions were characterized by acute thoracic pain in the former patient and were noted on incidental body scan for prostatic adenocarcinoma in the latter. The third patient underwent carotid-subclavian bypass grafting, followed by TEVAR and subclavian plugs, and in the fourth patient, regular follow-up with antihypertensive therapy was scheduled. After a mean follow-up period of 12 months, all patients were alive.

