CASE REPORT
Double Aortic Arch with Mirror-Image Dextrocardia
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Selcuk University Meram Medical Faculty, Department of Pediatric Cardiology,
Konya, Turkey
Publication date: 2013-01-09
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Hakan Altın
Selcuk University Meram Medical Faculty, Department of Pediatric Cardiology,
Meram, Konya, Turkey
Eur J Gen Med 2013;10(Supplement 1):72-76
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ABSTRACT
Double aortic arch (DAA) is a very rare congenital vascular anomaly, characterized by the encircling trachea and esophagus, resulting
feeding and/or respiratory problems. In this article, a two-month-old girl with situs inversus totalis and DAA was presented.
The baby was symptomatic with noisy breathing and coughing since birth. Double aortic arch was detected by echocardiography,
barium esophagography, cardiac MRI and conventional angiography. The present report emphasis that vascular ring should have
been evaluated in a patient with respiratory and/or feeding problems. Chest radiography, barium esophagography, echocardiography,
multislice computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging angiography and conventional cardiovascular angiography
can be used for the diagnosis of DAA.