An incomplete vascular ring causing respiratory distress

Kommerell’s diverticulum is a rare saccular aneurysmal dilation of the descending aorta. We report a case of a 3.5-year-old boy with the extremely rare combination of Kommerell’s diverticulum with a right descending aorta and proximal patent ductus arteriosus aneurysm forming an incomplete vascular...

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Autores principales: Sohail, Syeda Samar, Tariq, Muhammad, Amanullah, Muneer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5744030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29296067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2017.04.005
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description Kommerell’s diverticulum is a rare saccular aneurysmal dilation of the descending aorta. We report a case of a 3.5-year-old boy with the extremely rare combination of Kommerell’s diverticulum with a right descending aorta and proximal patent ductus arteriosus aneurysm forming an incomplete vascular ring. To our knowledge, this rare case has not been reported to date.
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spelling pubmed-57440302018-01-02 An incomplete vascular ring causing respiratory distress Sohail, Syeda Samar Tariq, Muhammad Amanullah, Muneer J Saudi Heart Assoc Case Report Kommerell’s diverticulum is a rare saccular aneurysmal dilation of the descending aorta. We report a case of a 3.5-year-old boy with the extremely rare combination of Kommerell’s diverticulum with a right descending aorta and proximal patent ductus arteriosus aneurysm forming an incomplete vascular ring. To our knowledge, this rare case has not been reported to date. Elsevier 2018-01 2017-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5744030/ /pubmed/29296067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsha.2017.04.005 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5744030/
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