Interrupted aortic arch is a rare congenital heart condition first describedby Steidele in 1773. The condition accounts for less than 1% of congenital heart conditions and is part of a broader ...

A 25 year-old man was referred to our center as a case of uncontrolled hypertension due to coarctation of aorta. On clinical examination, the pulses in upper limbs were bounding, femoral pulses were ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2012;10(12):1497-1516. 2D imaging and Doppler interrogation of the arch and intracardiac structures are carried out from different views with 'sweeps' (e.g., moving the ...

Interrupted aortic arch (IAA) type B was identified only in our patient . Table 1 Clinical features of 6q21–22 deletion. Full size table.

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Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2011;9(12):1527-1538. Russell also observed in the specimens analyzed by his group that pulmonary dominance was found only when the aortic component of the trunk was ...

Lainey has a heart defect called an interrupted aortic arch. It's rare and seen in about 1% of pregnancies, where the aorta -- which is the major blood vessel supplying blood to the body -- is ...

Being born with a type A interrupted aortic arch and an aortopulmonary window is very rare, with a prevalence of only 1 in 1,000 and 6 in 10,000 births respectively, Hsu said. The lightest baby to ...

It is the most common form of interrupted aortic arch, accounting for about about 53% of reported cases. According to the National Institute of Health, IAA is a very rare condition that occurs in ...

Interrupted aortic arch is caused by the defective development of the aorta during early fetal life, probably within the first 5-7 weeks. It accounts for less than 2% of congenital heart anomalies.

My son was born on 25th October by emergency C-Section as he went into distress two weeks before his due date. All was fine until he'd been home for a little over a week and almost stopped breathing ...