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Aortic atresia and interrupted aortic arch communicating through external carotid anastomosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2019

Volodia Dangouloff-Ros*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Radiology, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75105 Paris, France INSERM U1000, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France University René Descartes, PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, 12 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris, France UMR 1163, Institut Imagine, 24 boulevard du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, France
Nathalie Boddaert
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Radiology, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75105 Paris, France INSERM U1000, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France University René Descartes, PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, 12 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, Paris, France UMR 1163, Institut Imagine, 24 boulevard du Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, France
Francesca Raimondi
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Radiology, Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75105 Paris, France Unité Médico-Chirurgicale de Cardiologie Congénitale et Pédiatrique, Centre de référence Malformations Cardiaques Congénitales Complexes – M3C Hôpital Universitaire Necker Enfants Malades, AP-HP, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75105 Paris, France
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Author for correspondence: Dr Volodia Dangouloff-Ros, Assistance-Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Department of Pediatric Radiology, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France. Tel: +33-1-44496719; Fax: +33-1-44495170; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We describe the case of a newborn girl who displayed association of aortic atresia and interrupted aortic arch, with retrograde flow in ascending aorta, through extracranial anastomoses between vertebral arteries (arisen from descending aorta) and external carotids.

Type
Images in Congenital Cardiac Disease
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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