Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Cardiol. 2008 Nov;23(6):519–526. doi: 10.1097/hco.0b013e3283129b89

Fig. 1. Elongated transverse arch of the aorta (ETA) and associated anomalies in a woman with TS revealed by Gd-enhanced 3D MRA.

Fig. 1

(A) demonstrates flat and elongated transverse arch (large arrow) with characteristic kink in lesser curvature (small arrow). This same woman had aberrant origins of both right and left carotids at the greater curvature (A) and both subclavian arteries off a common, dilated vessel at the lesser curvature (A&B). This type of kinking at the usual coarctation site has been termed “pseudocoarctation” in other studies. Subject also had persistent LSVC as seen on reformatted coronal (C) and axial (D) postcontrast fat-suppressed spoiled gradient echo images. From Ho et al.[14].