A Rare Case of Posterior Malalignment VSD with Interrupted Right Arch and Isolated Left Common Carotid Artery.

Karim Aboelsoud, Aswathy K Vaikom House, Andrew Cave, Matthew Campbell, Anas Salkini, Harold Burkhart, Arshid Mir

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Isolated left common carotid artery: steal syndrome and neurological complications.Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA · 2026
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Congenital Isolation of a Common Carotid Artery: A Review of Cases, Phenotypes, and Embryology of a Rare Anomaly of the Aortic Arch System.Pediatric cardiology · 2025
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Karim AboelsoudPediatrics, Oklahoma Children's Hospital, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA. karim-aboelsoud@ouhsc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-3944-6167

Aswathy K Vaikom HousePediatric Cardiology, Oklahoma Children's Hospital, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

Andrew CavePediatric Cardiology, Oklahoma Children's Hospital, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

Matthew CampbellPediatric Cardiology, Oklahoma Children's Hospital, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

Anas SalkiniPediatric Cardiology, Oklahoma Children's Hospital, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

Harold BurkhartPediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

Arshid MirPediatric Cardiology, Oklahoma Children's Hospital, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

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Abstract

We present a rare and yet unreported constellation of cardiovascular anomalies in a girl with DiGeorge Syndrome (DGS) and congenital athymia due to 22q11.2 deletion and describe her clinical course leading to corrective surgery. Cardiac findings included a large posterior malalignment ventricular septal defect (VSD), a severely hypoplastic aortic valve, and a proximal ascending aorta that continued as the right common carotid artery (RCCA). The aortic arch was right-sided and interrupted. From the main pulmonary artery (MPA), a right-sided patent ductus arteriosus (right PDA) continued as a right-sided descending aorta, which gave rise to the right subclavian artery (RSCA) and an aberrant left subclavian artery (LSCA). A left-sided PDA continued as the isolated left common carotid artery (LCCA). Only 18 cases of Isolated LCCA have been previously reported, none of which were associated with an interrupted right aortic arch. In this case, palliative cardiac catheterization was followed by corrective cardiac surgery and later successful thymic transplantation.

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Abnormalities, MultipleAorta, ThoracicCarotid Artery, CommonDiGeorge SyndromeHeart Septal Defects, VentricularCardiac CatheterizationFemaleHumansSubclavian ArteryComplete DiGeorge SyndromeInterrupted right aortic archIsolated left common carotid arteryPosterior malalignment VSD

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PMID40750689

DOI10.1007/s00246-025-03976-5

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