Vascular Rings and Slings

Powell, A.

doi:10.1002/9781119612858.ch32

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“…Vascular rings are rare, accounting for 1 to 3 percent of congenital heart disease [3] .They are one of the less common causes of stridor, persistent wheezing, recurrent pneumonia and dysphagia in children. Congenital abnormalities of the aortic arch and its main branches cause the formation of vascular rings around the trachea and oesophagus and exert different levels of compression effect.…”

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Double aortic arch: An uncommon diagnosis presenting with recurrent respiratory symptoms.

Sarah

Salih²,

Khair

et al. 2021

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A vascular ring is defined as an anomaly of the great arteries (aortic arch and its branches) that compresses the trachea and/or oesophagus. Double aortic arch is one of the most common types of vascular rings. We present a male newborn infant with double aortic arch who initially presented with inspiratory stridor since birth that was aggravated by crying. He was initially worked up as a case of congenital laryngomalacia. At 26 days of age, he presented to the emergency department with attacks of cough associated with stridor, interrupted breastfeeding, irritability, cyanosis and apnoea. Investigations were done and the diagnosis of double aortic arch was made by echocardiography and confirmed by contrast-enhanced computed tomography. Standard surgical division of ligamentum arteriosum was able to relieve the trachea and the symptoms

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“…E-mail: sasalam@hotmail.com obstruction and dysphagia. The two most common types of complete vascular rings are double aortic arch and right aortic arch with left ligamentum arteriosum accounting to 85-95% of the cases [3] .…”

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