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Case Reports
. 2013 Jan;78(1):72-4.
doi: 10.12659/PJR.883771.

Diagnosis of aortic interruption by CT angiography

Shapour Shirani  1 , Maryam Soleymanzadeh
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Case Reports

Diagnosis of aortic interruption by CT angiography

Shapour Shirani et al. Pol J Radiol. 2013 Jan.

Abstract

Background: Interrupted aortic arch (IAA) is a rare congenital malformation of the aortic arch, which might be accompanied with other coexisting cardiovascular anomalies.

Case report: Many cases with IAA are diagnosed at their neonatal and newborn period but in rare cases the diagnosis is not established until adulthood. The patients may have no clinical symptoms but the signs of heart failure will gradually appear and may cause death.

Results: The development of imaging methods such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has dramatically changed the diagnostics. Here we report a 20-year-old young man with IAA associated with sinus venosus atrial septal defect (SVD) and partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) referred to our hospital.

Keywords: CT scanning; aorta; congenital heart disease; thoracic.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
VRT reconstruction image of aorta shows aortic disruption immediately after the origin of left subclavian artery. The descending aorta is continuous with pulmonary artery. (A) anterior view, (B) posterior view.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
MIP semicoronal, long axis, two-chamber view of the ventricles. There is large, membranous VSD.
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