Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction in a Middle Aged Man with Right-Sided Aortic Arch

Authors

  • Efthymia G Rouska Evagelismos General Hospital, Athens
  • Ioannis Kokotsakis Evagelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
  • Spyridon Rammos Onassis Hospital, Athens, Greece
  • Charalampos F Ntavelas Evagelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
  • Theodoros Kratimenos Evagelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
  • Antonios Sideris Evagelismos Hospital, Athens, greece

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2015/hc.v7i2.473

Keywords:

right ventricular outflow tract obstruction, right-sided aortic arch, congenital cardiac anomalies

Abstract

Congenital diseases causing an obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract are difficult to precisely diagnose, especially in elderly patients. We report a case of a 49-year-old man who presented to our hospital with longstanding shortness of breath on exertion. He was finally diagnosed as right ventricular outflow tract obstruction and referred for surgical correction. The patient had a history of descending aorta dissection which was treated by thoracic stent grafting. By that time right-sided aortic arch was diagnosed. The coexistence of right ventricular outflow tract obstraction and right sided aortic arch in the same patient is very rare, to the best of our knowledge.

Author Biography

Efthymia G Rouska, Evagelismos General Hospital, Athens

Specialty: Cardiology

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Published

2012-03-16

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2012)

Section

CASE REPORTS

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