Minimally Invasive Treatment of Kommerell's Diverticulum and Left Aberrant Subclavian Artery

Razan Salem; Luxia Anantharajah; Florian Hecker; Nour Eldin A Nour-Eldin; Jan Hlavicka; Thomas Walther; Tomas Holubec

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.01.057

Minimally Invasive Treatment of Kommerell's Diverticulum and Left Aberrant Subclavian Artery

Ann Thorac Surg. 2022 Nov;114(5):e313-e315. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.01.057. Epub 2022 Feb 22.

Authors

Razan Salem¹, Luxia Anantharajah¹, Florian Hecker¹, Nour Eldin A Nour-Eldin², Jan Hlavicka¹, Thomas Walther¹, Tomas Holubec³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt and Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
² Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Frankfurt and Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Cairo University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt and Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 35216988
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.01.057

Abstract

Kommerell's diverticulum is an aneurysmatic offspring of the left aberrant subclavian artery, which is a rare vascular anomaly of the aortic arch. Here, we present our less invasive approach to the repair of a symptomatic Kommerell's diverticulum in a 31-year-old patient, without the use of cardiopulmonary bypass.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Aorta, Thoracic / abnormalities
Aorta, Thoracic / diagnostic imaging
Aorta, Thoracic / surgery
Diverticulum* / diagnostic imaging
Diverticulum* / surgery
Heart Defects, Congenital*
Humans
Subclavian Artery / abnormalities
Subclavian Artery / diagnostic imaging
Subclavian Artery / surgery

Supplementary concepts

Aberrant subclavian artery