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ArticleJA clinical reports2025

Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography under aortic arch branch blood flow monitoring in a patient with an aberrant left subclavian artery: a case report.

Yasutaka Suzuki, Takahiro Kawaji, Hidefumi Komura, Satoshi Komatsu, Naohide Kuriyama, Tomoyuki Nakamura

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Yasutaka SuzukiDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-Cho, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan.
Takahiro KawajiDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-Cho, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan. medcompass@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8048-7810
Hidefumi KomuraDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-Cho, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan.
Satoshi KomatsuDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-Cho, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan.
Naohide KuriyamaDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-Cho, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan.
Tomoyuki NakamuraDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-Cho, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan.

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Abstract

backgroundTransesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is widely used in cardiac and non-cardiac surgeries with major hemodynamic fluctuations. In patients with vascular anomalies near the esophagus, such as an aberrant left subclavian artery (ALSA), TEE may pose a risk of vascular compression. However, no guidelines exist. CASE PRESENTATION: A 19-year-old woman with biliary atresia underwent living donor liver transplantation. Preoperative imaging showed a right-sided aortic arch with ALSA coursing posterior to the esophagus, and ALSA compression was considered a risk during TEE. Therefore, bilateral radial arterial pressures and regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO₂) were monitored. The TEE probe was inserted under videolaryngoscopic guidance without resistance or hemodynamic disturbance, and no arterial waveform attenuation or rSO₂ changes occurred. Transplantation was uneventful, and the patient showed no postoperative neurological or upper-limb deficits.

conclusionThis case highlights that appropriate imaging and monitoring strategies can support safe TEE use in non-cardiac surgery, even with vascular anomalies.

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Aberrant subclavian arteryArterial pressure monitoringCompression riskLiver transplantationRSO₂ monitoringTransesophageal echocardiography

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PMCPMC12583351

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