Kinking of the aorta with calcified aortic valve stenosis: A case report.

Congenital kinking of the aorta is an uncommon anomaly consisting of elongation of the aortic arch with kinking at the level of the ductal ligament. Herein we report a case of congenital kinking of the aorta with calcified aortic valve stenosis. The combination of a kinked aorta with severe calcified valve stenosis is very unusual.

Radial approach is better than the femoral one in anomalous high RCA take-off from the left-anterior part of the ascending aorta.

An anomalous right coronary artery (RCA) with a high anterior take-off from ascending aorta is an uncommon and technically challenging vessel to cannulate. There are only a few reports in the literature describing this anomaly. Some of them consider it as a "very rare" or even "extremely rare" anomaly.