Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
3025938 Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual 2009 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

Transverse aortic arch hypoplasia involving some or all segments of the arch (tubular hypoplasia) may exist in association with intra-cardiac anomalies of varying severity. Surgical repair of the distal transverse aortic arch and isthmus are adequately managed by an extended end-to-end coarctation repair in most infants via a left thoracotomy. The surgical management and timing of proximal aortic arch obstruction is controversial but almost always requires an approach via sternotomy using cardiopulmonary bypass.

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