Radiation and tumor infiltration confer a high risk of bleeding on surgical removal of tumor. We report on the case of a 42-year-old woman with a recurrent occult subclavian tumor in her right breast. Computed tomography revealed enhanced tumor adhesion to the subclavian artery at the infraclavicular lymph node. No other metastases were detected. We pre-operatively performed stenting of the rig...

OBJECTIVE Aortic endovascular stent-graft implantation is associated with low morbidity and mortality rates. Overstenting of the left subclavian artery may be necessary to create a satisfactory proximal 'landing zone' for the stent-graft. Few cases have been published reporting adverse neurological events after overstenting of the left subclavian artery. We thus evaluated whether this procedure...

Takayasu arteritis (also known as pulseless disease, aortoarteritis, and aortic arch syndrome) is a chronic, inflammatory and occlusive vasculitis of the aorta and its primary branches as well as the pulmonary arteries. It predominantly affects young females, particularly from India and South East Asia.Subclavian steal syndrome secondary to takayasu arteritis occurs when there is severe stenosi...

We present the case of a 49-year-old woman with neurological symptoms and severe atherosclerosis of aortic arch branches affecting subclavian and carotid arteries. Our patient has a history of transient ischemic attack and recurrent paresthesias of her right arm. We present a double access intervention using a distal embolic neuroprotection device during ostial right subclavian artery recanaliz...

Intracranial embolization usually arises from the heart, a vertebrobasilar artery, a carotid artery, or the aorta, but rarely from the distal subclavian artery upstream of an embolus. We report on a patient who experienced left shoulder and forearm pain with weak blood pressure and pulse followed by concurrent onset of left hemiplegia. This case is a rare example of multiple cerebral embolic in...

A 72-year-old man underwent aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass graft using cardiopulmonary bypass with right axillary artery cannulation. After undraping, petechial and subcutaneous hemorrhage with blister formations were found in right upper extremity. Axillary artery cannula was considered to compress right subclavian and disturb venous return in the right subclavian vein, wh...

Manuscript received February 19, 2016; accepted February 25, 2016. angiography showed competitive follow in the distal left anterior descending coronary artery (Figure 1, Online Video 1). However, LIMA could not be visualized despite multiple angiographic images of left subclavian artery. Aortic arch angiography showed an artery coming off the aortic arch just distal to the origin of the subcla...

Thoracic outlet syndrome is a mechanical space problem in which the brachial plexus and/or subclavian vessels are compressed. Arterial compression is least common and almost always associated with a bony anomaly. We present a case of a 49-year-old woman with a prominent first rib which caused a subclavian artery stenosis. There are many options for subclavian artery repair through open surgery....

Kommerell's diverticulum (KD) is defined as a bulbous dilatation of the origin of an aberrant subclavian artery due to a remnant of the left fourth aortic arch. We report the case of an asymptomatic woman in whom progressive thrombosis of the KD extending to the prevertebral tract of an aberrant right subclavian artery was detected at multidetector computed tomography imaging for lung cancer st...

Fig. 2. (A) Angiogram shows the leakage of contrast media in the right subclavian artery (white arrow). (B) The angiogram following the insertion of the self-expanding stent shows no leakage of contrast media in the right subclavian artery (black arrow). Fig. 1. Chest computed tomography scan shows the central venous catheter penetrating the right subclavian artery and within the pleural space ...