ABSTRACT
A 48-year-old female who was diagnosed as having a right aortic arch with retroesophageal left subclavian artery and left ligamentum arteriosus was referred to our hospital for an aortic arch and descending aortic aneurysm with a dilated Kommerell's diverticulm. This aneurysm was 67mm in maximum diameter, between the aortic arch and the midportion of the descending aorta. Successful surgical treatment was accomplished with the use of extraanatomic bypass grafting between the ascending aorta and the descending aorta and reconstruction of the four main branches of the aortic arch. Postoperative digital subtraction angiography and enhanced CT revealed slight leakage at the distal stump of the aneurysm. Theoretically, resection of the aneurysm and aortic reconstruction would have been the best procedure. However, the complicated anatomy made it difficult to perform total resection of the aneurysm and aortic reconstruction, and several problems remained after operation.
ABSTRACT
A 75-year-old male with an aneurysm in the transverse aortic arch with aberrant right subclavian artery was surgically treated successfully. Preoperative angiograms suggested abnormal expansion of neck vessels but this was not confirmed before operation. At operation, right aberrant subclavian artery was confirmed and the transverse aortic arch was replaced with a 22mm woven Dacron graft and four brachiocephalic vessles were reconstructed by interposition of four 8mm Dacron grafts between those vessels and the arch prosthesis. The postoperative course was uneventful and the postoperative angiograms indicated successful transverse aortic arch reconstruction.