Left brachiocephalic vein begins from junction of left subclavian and left internal jugular vein posterior to medial end of left clavicle. It crosses to the right moving slightly in inferior direction and joins with right brachiocephalic vein to form superior vena cava. During its oblique course it crosses the left subclavian artery, left common carotid artery and brachiocephalic trunk in the s...

Subclavian artery aneurysms are uncommon. The most common causes of these aneurysms are atherosclerosis and traumatic pseudoaneurysm. We report on a case of an atherosclerotic aneurysm of the right subclavian artery. The aneurysm was resected with a combined supra-infraclavicular approach, and a primary end-to-end anastomosis was performed. The postoperative course was uneventful. In arterioscl...

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Purpose. Coronary-subclavian steal syndrome (CSSS) is defined as a reversal of flow in a previously constructed internal mammary artery (IMA) coronary conduit, producing myocardial ischemia. We present a case of CSSS which could not be ameliorated with endovascular therapy and necessitated a subclavian-subclavian bypass. Case Report. 80-year-old Caucasian male with history of CABG presented wit...

Kommerell diverticulums are an uncommon congenital vascular disease involving aberrant origin of the right or left subclavian artery and a dilation its root. Here, we present case 44-year-old woman with relapse surgically repaired diverticulum.

The authors are presenting two patients with subclavian steal syndrome successfully treated by axillo-axillary bypass or by percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, and discuss the choice of procedures for the correction of the subclavian steal syndrome. The first patient was a 48-year-old man complaining of easy fatiguability of the right arm and ver tigo. No neurological abnormality was found, ...

Blunt trauma to the right proximal subclavian artery is uncommon and tends to be associated with pseudoaneurysm formation. We report a patient with right proximal subclavian artery pseudoaneurysm after blunt chest trauma following a motor vehicle accident. The condition was successfully treated with a combined insertion of a covered stent and carotid-carotid bypass as a hybrid procedure. Duplex...

The variations in the aortic arch and its branches are of surgical interest. Many anomalies of the aortic arch and great vessels are uncovered as serendipitous findings on imaging studies, in the anatomy laboratory, or at surgery. A 56-year-old woman had an arch angiogram as part of an evaluation for cardiovascular disease. A two-vessel left aortic arch was identified consisting of the brachioc...

Figs. 4 and 5 : Thrombus in right subclavian artery Figs. 6 and 7 : Flow-void in axillary and radial arteries A 35 years female presented with severe pain of right hand and blackish discolouration of fingertips for last one month. She had no history of palpitation, dyspnoea, angina, fever, polyarthritis and fetal loss. She had past history of intermittent pain, claudication and raynaud’s phenom...

Introduction Several reports on anomalies of the aortic arch concomitant with coaretation of the aorta are to be found in the literature.3 This paper describes such anomalies as they were found in two of our surgical cases, which showed unusual features not hitherto described in the literature available to us. These anomalies, although rare, are of practical importance with a view to differenti...