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Right Aortic Arch |
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| Authors: | Edward B D Neuhauser Kenneth E Fellows JR |
| Institution: | Harvard Medical School Boston |
| Abstract: | In right aortic arch the branching pattern will be either a mirror image of normal or a partial mirror image characterized by an aberrant left subclavian artery. The chance of associated severe heart defect is 95 percent with mirror-image branching, but only about 10 percent with an aberrant left subclavian artery. A barium esophagram will indicate the branching pattern and the probability of associated heart disease. |
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