Simple renal cysts and bovine aortic arch: markers for aortic disease

Simple Renal Cysts as Markers of Thoracic Aortic Disease

BACKGROUND Thoracic aortic aneurysm is usually a clinically silent disease; timely detection is largely dependent upon identification of clinical markers of thoracic aortic disease (TAD); (bicuspid aortic valve, intracranial aortic aneurysm, bovine aortic arch, or positive family history). Recently, an association of simple renal cysts (SRC) with abdominal aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection ...

Bovine aortic arch.

I knew that the congenital variation of the human aortic arch, with the left common carotid artery originating from the innominate artery, has nothing to do with the anatomy of the bovine arch; however, it was very useful of Layton et al to point out the discordance of the anatomic terminology. The weakness of the article, though, is that the authors did not trace who introduced and coined the ...

Bovine Aortic Arch: A Marker For The Development And Progression Of Thoracic Aortic Disease

Aortic Arch Thrombosis Mimicking Interrupted Aortic Arch

We report a case of a 32-week-gestation male who presented initially with symptoms suggestive of an interrupted aortic arch. The absence of a VSD prompted further investigations, including a CT angiogram, which revealed that he had an extensive thrombus in his aorta. He underwent a successful aortic thrombectomy with arch repair on cardiopulmonary bypass support. In view of the extensive thromb...

Double aortic arch with hypoplastic right aortic arch and type C atresia of left aortic arch.

We report the case of a 2-month-old baby with a double aortic arch, type C atresia of the left arch and severe hypoplasia of the right aortic arch between the right carotid and subclavian arteries, resulting in systemic obstruction, left ventricular dysfunction and congestive heart failure. Surgical augmentation of the right aortic arch ameliorated the obstruction with improvement in left ventr...