Right-sided Aorta

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That the condition of right-sided aorta is rare is illustrated by the fact that Biedermann1 reports 12 cases in a series of 20,000 autopsies, and Holzapfel could find only 21 cases of right-sided aorta in a search of the literature between the years 1766 and 1891. Since then several cases have been reported. The condition should not be confused with transposition of the aorta, in which the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery from the left. The origin of the aorta is normal but the course is not. It may be accompanied by perforation of the septa, patent ductus Botallo, transposition of the aorta and pulmonary artery, or abnormalities in the branches of the great vessels. Cases are reported in which there is a defect in the ventricular septum immediately below the origin of the aorta so that the vessel arises from both ventricles. The aorta is then broadened and the pulmonary artery narrowed. In these cases the diagnosis was made at autopsy.2 The condition may occur alone in perfe...

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