Aortopulmonary Collateral Artery from the Proximal Ascending Aorta: A Rare Anatomical Finding.
Lucio CaredduEmanuela AngeliGabriele Egidy AssenzaTammam HasanAndrea QuartiFrancesco Dimitri PetridisAndrea DontiGaetano Domenico GargiuloPublished in: World journal for pediatric & congenital heart surgery (2021)
Tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries is a rare congenital heart lesion in which pulmonary blood supply may arise from different segments of the aorta. We report an unusual case of a newborn with a major collateral artery originating from the proximal ascending aorta. Successful reparative surgery was undertaken.