Interrupted aortic arch (IAA) refers to a rare but very serious congenital heart defect in which there is a gap between the ascending and descending segments of the aorta, namely, in the arch of the ...

Interrupted aortic arch (IAA) is an extremely serious condition of the heart in which the development of the aortic arch is disrupted. The arch of the aorta is the segment which connects the ascending ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2012;10(12):1497-1516. Type I: A short pulmonary trunk originating from the TA gives rise to both ­pulmonary arteries. Type II: The pulmonary arteries off the truncus with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with certain conotruncal cardiac defects should be screened in the prenatal/neonatal period for ...

We previously reported the enhancement of the aortic pressure wave reflection in patients with aortic coarctation after repair. 16 However, the study had two limitations. One was that some patients in ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2012;10(12):1497-1516. 2D imaging and Doppler interrogation of the arch and intracardiac structures are carried out from different views with 'sweeps' (e.g., moving the ...