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Interrupted aorta diagnosed in a 51-year-old woman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2013

Nik Stoyanov ,
Andrew Bullock  and
Matthew Erickson
Nik Stoyanov*
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Wellington Street, Perth, Western Australia
Andrew Bullock
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Adult Congenital Cardiac Centre, Royal Perth Hospital, Wellington Street, Perth, Western Australia
Matthew Erickson
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, Royal Perth Hospital, Wellington Street, Perth, Western Australia
*
Correspondence to: N. Stoyanov, Department of Electrophysiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, 40 Ruskin street, Ottawa, Ontario K1S2S8, Canada. Tel: +618 92242244; Fax: +618 92243175; E-mail: nik_stoya@yahoo.com.au
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Abstract

A 51-year-old lady presented with increasing heart failure symptoms and palpitations. She had recently been diagnosed with a congenital ventricular septal defect, bicuspid aortic valve, and Eisenmenger’s syndrome. There was clinical evidence of right heart failure and differential clubbing and cyanosis affecting the feet but not hands. A cardiac magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated interruption of the aortic arch beyond the left subclavian artery, with the descending aorta perfused entirely through a large patent ductus arteriosus.

Keywords

Interruptedcongentialaorta
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 24 , Issue 5 , October 2014 , pp. 944 - 946
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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