From the time that coarctation of the aorta was first described by Morgagni in 1771 (cited by Evans, 1933) until 1944, when Crafoord and Nylin (1945) and Gross (1945) independently managed the lesion successfully by a surgical procedure, the lesion remained a curiosity which challenged the descriptive powers of anatomists and pathologists and which proved a diagnostic exercise for clinicians. T...

This report describes a patient with right-sided aortic arch, aberrant left subclavian artery and Kommerell diverticulum, who presented aneurysmal degeneration of the root to descending aorta, in addition an acute Type B 2-10 dissection. He underwent hybrid treatment valve-sparing replacement, transverse arch replacement reattachment right artery, bilateral common carotid arteries, thoracic end...

Figure 1 Branches of the aortic arc. A 30 year old woman presented with a three week history of symmetrical jaw claudication and episodes of pain in the left arm with a blue discolouration and loss of strength. Two years previously she was given a tentative diagnosis of Takayasu's disease after multiple large arterial vascular problems and severe general malaise. No immunosuppressive treatment ...

The right vertebral artery most commonly originates from the right subclavian artery. There are a variety of anomalous origins of the right vertebral artery described throughout the literature ( 114); however, in most cases the artery arises from a vessel on the right side of the aortic arch. There have only been three reports of the right vertebral artery crossing over from an origin on the le...

Background Subclavian and axillary arteries true aneurysms are rarely seen. The best incision for surgical approach is median sternotomy for intrathoracic right subclavian artery aneurysm, left thoracotomy for intrathoracic left subclavian artery aneurysm and supraclavicular incision for extrathoracic ones. Many surgeons approaches as subclavicular incision, subclavicular incision extending to ...

Injury of the subclavian artery following trauma is an uncommon finding. Hughes (1958) reported 304 vascular injuries in Korean war casualties but in only three of these was rupture of the subclavian artery documented. Chandler and Knapp (1967) reported the operative repair of 126 vascular injuries in 118 casualties in Vietnam. Only one subclavian artery injury was found, an incidence of 0-8 %....

A 54-year male with previous triple vessel coronary artery and aorto-bi-femoral bypass graft surgeries complained of crescent angina. Stress induced myocardial ischemia on echocardiography was demonstrated. We performed direct stenting of a saphenous vein graft to the right coronary artery, via right radial approach. Subsequently stenting of a severe left subclavian artery proximal stenosis was...

A right aortic arch is a rare congenital anomaly, with a reported incidence of around 0.1%. A patient with a right aortic arch underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery left lower lobectomy and mediastinal lymph node dissection for squamous cell carcinoma. There was no aortic arch or descending aorta in the left thoracic cavity, but the esophagus. There was no anomaly in the location or branchi...

The rare anomaly of a right aortic arch, distal origin of the left subclavian artery, and posterior left ductus arteriosus (forming a vascular ring) plus a right ductus arteriosus is described in an infant with d-transposition of the great arteries with an intact septum. The presence of a right aortic arch and distal left subclavian artery with bilateral ductus arteriosus has not been described...

A male patient aged 50 years presented to the emergency department with a complaint of dysphagia after ingestion of a whole plum without chewing. His history revealed a diagnosis of schizophrenia 15 years ago. This was the patient’s second presentation to hospital with this complaint. At the first-step hospital, his relatives and the physicians did not believe the patient due to his schizophren...