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Case Reports

Aneurysm of a Right-Sided Descending Aorta With a Normal Left-Sided Aortic Arch

^a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan
^b Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Kyoto-Katsura Hospital, Nishikyo, Kyoto, Japan

Accepted for publication July 26, 2007.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Daimon, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Medical College, 2-7, Daigakumachi, Takatsuki, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan (Email: m-daimon{at}jg7.so-net.ne.jp).

We encountered an extremely rare case of a saccular aneurysm of the descending aorta developing to the right of the spinal column with a normal left-sided aortic arch. An 80-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of a saccular aneurysm of the right-sided descending aorta that had increased in diameter. Resection of the aneurysm and prosthetic graft replacement of the right-sided descending thoracic aorta were successfully performed under deep hypothermia through a right thoracotomy.