Open Access“Double-lumen” aortic arch with “double-lumen” brachiocephalic artery
Author(s) -
Rengarajan Rajagopal,
Pawan Kumar Garg,
Pushpinder Singh Khera,
Sanjiv Sharma
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of pediatric cardiology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 0974-2069
pISSN - 0974-5149
DOI - 10.4103/apc.apc_106_18
Subject(s) - medicine , double aortic arch , aortic arch , trunk , arch , anatomy , lumen (anatomy) , aorta , cardiology , kyphoscoliosis , surgery , scoliosis , ecology , civil engineering , biology , engineering
Persistence of the embryological fifth aortic arch in postnatal life has been a subject of debate for over more than a century. We describe a patient with congenital kyphoscoliosis and variant anatomy in the aortic arch and brachiocephalic trunk which could be possibly explained by the persistence of bilateral fifth aortic arches, a pattern which has never been previously reported in literature.