Magnetic resonance imaging of a left circumflex aortic arch and aberrant right subclavian artery: the other vascular ring

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. McLeary ◽  
Lynda L. Frye ◽  
Lionel W. Young
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoming Bian

Diverticulum of Kommerell is a congenital anomaly in the development of the primitive embryonic aortic vasculature resulting in either an aberrant left subclavian artery (ALSA) from a right-sided aortic arch (RSAA) or an aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA) from a left-sided aortic arch (LSAA). Kommerell’s diverticulum (KD), is extremely rare in the general population having prevalence of 0.7–2.0 %. KD with true aneurysmal dilatation like any vascular lesion of the thoracic aorta weakens the vasculature and increases the risk of aortic rupture. Timely surgical intervention is of paramount importance in most of these cases. Variable clinical presentations in patients with KD are either a result of compression of some mediastinal organs or strangulation by the vascular ring from the aberrant subclavian artery (ASA). We report a case of a 39 years old Chinese female with a rare co-existence of a huge KD with a microaneurysm, an aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA), and ventricular septal defect (VSD). She underwent a successful operation and all her pre-surgical symptoms disappeared.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuyuki Ishii ◽  
Hitoshi Mochizuki

A 69-year-old man who had been bedridden in nursing home because of a 5-year history of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) was admitted due to aspiration pneumonia. Besides neck dystonia in extension, he showed “alternating flexed–extended posturing”, in which the arm was flexed on one side and extended on the other. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain revealed global cerebral atrophy that predominantly affected the cortex and midbrain. The mechanisms of complex posturing in late-stage PSP may sometimes be related to decortication and decerebration as well as dystonia, and “alternating flexed–extended posturing” might be one of the phenotypes of pathological progression in PSP.


2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 636-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. M. Van Poppel ◽  
K. Pushparajah ◽  
D. F. A. Lloyd ◽  
R. Razavi ◽  
S. Speggiorin ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-728
Author(s):  
Deepa Prasad ◽  
Manish Bansal ◽  
Ravi C. Ashwath

AbstractWe describe a rare case of double vascular ring diagnosed with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in a patient with ventricular septal defect, pulmonary stenosis, and right aortic arch.


2003 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 1962-1966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Almeida de Oliveira ◽  
Luiz Augusto F Lisboa ◽  
Luís Alberto O Dallan ◽  
Carlos Alberto C Abreu F° ◽  
Carlos E Rochitte ◽  
...  

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