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Journal Article
Double aortic arch causing tracheoesophageal compression
1993
Overview
Since 1972, 17 patients have been surgically treated for double aortic arch at our institution. The procedure became necessary before 12 months of age in 11 patients and before 24 months in 16 patients. The major symptoms were respiratory distress, noisy breathing, and respiratory infections; four patients also had dysphagia. A high degree of clinical suspicion should warrant further investigation. Barium swallow and bronchoscopy were diagnostic and revealed extrinsic compression of the esophagus and trachea, respectively. Division of the anterior arch was performed in 16 patients; the right (posterior) arch was divided in the remaining patient. Kommerell's diverticulum was found in four patients and was resected in order to avoid recurrence of dysphagia by compression. A vascular suspension procedure was necessary in 13 patients to further release the trachea and eosphagus. There was no mortality in this series, and symptomatic improvement was achieved in all patients. A degree of tracheomalacia may be responsible for some residual symptoms in four patients.
Publisher
Elsevier Inc,Elsevier,Elsevier Limited
Subject
/ Airway Obstruction - etiology
/ Airway Obstruction - surgery
/ Aorta
/ Aorta, Thoracic - abnormalities
/ Aorta, Thoracic - diagnostic imaging
/ Barium
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Child
/ Congenital heart diseases. Malformations of the aorta, pulmonary vessels and vena cava
/ Constriction, Pathologic - etiology
/ Constriction, Pathologic - surgery
/ Deglutition Disorders - etiology
/ Deglutition Disorders - surgery
/ Esophageal Stenosis - etiology
/ Esophageal Stenosis - surgery
/ Female
/ Heart
/ Humans
/ Infant
/ Male
/ Trachea
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