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Interrupted right aortic arch and origin of the left pulmonary artery from the aorta in DiGeorge syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2006

Suvro S. Sett
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia and The Univeristy of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
George G. S. Sandor
Affiliation:
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia and The Univeristy of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
John B. Mawson
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Children's and Women's Health Centre of British Columbia and The Univeristy of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Abstract

We describe a neonate with DiGeorge syndrome undergoing diagnosis and successful repair of interrupted right aortic arch and origin of the left pulmonary artery from the aorta. We discuss a link between this lesion and persistence of a left fifth arch.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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