Surgical Treatment of Dysphagia Lusoria Caused by Right-Aortic Arch with Kommerell Diverticulum: Left Heart Bypass without Subclavian Revascularization

Mariano Camporrotondo; Paz Ricapito; Juan Carlos Espinoza; Fernando Piccinini; Mariano Vrancic; Gustavo Avegliano; Daniel Navia

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1639346

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CC BY 4.0 · Aorta (Stamford) 2018; 06(01): 028-030
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1639346

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Surgical Treatment of Dysphagia Lusoria Caused by Right-Aortic Arch with Kommerell Diverticulum: Left Heart Bypass without Subclavian Revascularization

Mariano Camporrotondo

¹Cardiac Surgery Department, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Paz Ricapito

¹Cardiac Surgery Department, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Juan Carlos Espinoza

¹Cardiac Surgery Department, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Fernando Piccinini

¹Cardiac Surgery Department, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Mariano Vrancic

¹Cardiac Surgery Department, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Gustavo Avegliano

¹Cardiac Surgery Department, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Daniel Navia

¹Cardiac Surgery Department, Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Abstract

The authors present the case of a 26-year-old patient suffering from dysphagia because of compression by a Kommerell diverticulum in right aortic arch anomaly. Open surgical arch and descending aorta replacement with left heart bypass without left subclavian artery reimplantation was performed.

Keywords

right aortic arch - dysphagia lusoria - Kommerell diverticulum

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