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CC BY 4.0 · Aorta (Stamford) 2021; 09(06): 231-232
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1736653
Images in Aortic Disease

Massive Sternal Osteophyte Compressing Aortic Arch Branch Graft

Hesham Ellauzi 
1   Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Aortic Institute, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
2   Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
,
Jonathan Cardella
3   Section of Vascular Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
,
Mohammad A. Zafar
1   Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Aortic Institute, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
,
Bulat A. Ziganshin
1   Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Aortic Institute, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
4   Department of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery, Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, Russia
,
John A. Elefteriades
1   Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Aortic Institute, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
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Abstract

We present a dramatic computed tomography scan demonstrating compression of a brachiocephalic graft by a massive sternal osteophyte, coming to light many years after aortic arch replacement surgery.

Keywords

brachiocephalic artery - sternal osteophyte - stenosis


Publication History

Received: 21 August 2020

Accepted: 02 July 2021

Article published online:
28 December 2021

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