Refer to the page 215-221 In this issue, Park et al. 1) present their experience with the use of a novel, fenestrated aortic arch stent graft (FASG) with a preloaded catheter for supra-aortic vessels. The authors have done an outstanding job highlighting a subject of increasing importance in acute clinical care, namely, performing thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) in a short landing z...

indicates the descending aorta; asterisk, superior aortic arch; LSA, left subclavian artery; RSA, right subclavian artery; RCCA, right common carotid artery; LCCA, left common carotid artery. Panel H. Posterior views of 3D VR imaging demonstrating that the branches of the aorta arch originate from the superior aortic arch. Ao indicates the descending aorta; asterisk, superior aortic arch; LSA, ...

We report a case of a young girl with Turner syndrome presenting with a pulsatile left-sided supraclavicular swelling since birth, which proved to be the rare anomaly of a cervical aortic arch. Though elongation of the transverse aortic arch is well known in Turner syndrome, to the best of our knowledge, a cervical aortic arch has not been described in the literature.

Right-sided aortic arch is a rare anomaly, and aortic dissection involving a right-sided aortic arch is extremely rare. We report the case of a 65-year-old man with a right-sided aortic arch and a right descending aortic dissection and a stent-graft was accurately deployed without perioperative complications. There were no any complaints and complications after 18 months follow-up. The CTA demo...

The surgical treatment of an aortic coarctation requires a resection of the stenotic area and direct suture of the aorta. An extended mobilization allows an enlargement of a hypoplastic distal aortic arch. In ductal dependent circulation, the distal aortic arch can be enlarged with a patch before tackling the coarctation itself. Postsurgical aortic arch stenoses often require a surgical interve...

OBJECTIVES Hybrid endovascular procedures are rapidly evolving and have recently been adopted for high-risk patients deemed unsuitable for conventional aortic arch surgery. We describe here our initial experience with this technique, including the management of 2 patients who developed a retrograde type A aortic dissection post-de-branching. METHODS Between May 2010 and October 2012, 109 pati...

Timing and type of aortic wall abnormalities (AWC) repair are still being debated. Automatically patient-specific 3D aortic arch geometrical model estimation from MRI images can provide a better knowledge of the geometry of the aortic arch anomaly and can be useful to evaluate preoperatively the best treatment. Therefore, we have developed a software to automatically compute a patient-specific ...

Although a right-sided aortic arch is not a rare anomaly, an aortic dissection involving an isolated right-sided aortic arch is extremely rare and remains a complicated entity for surgical therapy because of its anatomical characteristics. Previous reports that we have identified in English literature include only six surgical cases of aortic dissection involving a right-sided aortic arch. We r...

Between the years 1965 and 1970, ten patients were operated on for congenital anomalies of the aortic arch which caused symptoms of tracheoesophageal compression. The classic Edwards' diagram was modified for a more simple mterpretation of these anomalies. Accordingly, all our patients were found to belong to four distinct variations: 1) double aortic arch, which was divided in twosubgroups, a)...

Management of extensive, chronic, dissecting aortic aneurysms after prior repair of the ascending aorta presents a technical challenge for surgeons. A symptomatic 64-year-old patient was admitted for elective surgical repair of an aortic annular dilatation, causing severe aortic regurgitation, and a Crawford type II extended thoracoabdominal aneurysm, 4 years after he underwent primary repair o...