Endovascular repair of a right-sided aortic arch aneurysm and tracheal injury.

J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol

Departments of †Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine *Surgery ‡Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Published: January 2014

Implications of an aortic arch endoprosthesis on tracheal anatomy are underrecognized, especially given their close anatomic relationship. We present a unique case of an elderly woman who suffered an iatrogenic tracheal injury due to both an aberrant aortic arch anatomy and a thoracic endoprosthesis.

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