Double Aortic Arch: About One Case

A double aortic arch is a rare vascular anomaly. However, this is the most common cause of a symptomatic vascular ring malformation due to the absence of involution of the caudal dorsal aorta. It involves the complete encirclement and compression of the trachea and esophagus. The disease usually begins to show itself in very early clinical signs, already detectable in the neonatal period. It may lead to significant morbidity for the patient, a wide range of clinical symptoms ranging from life-threatening symptoms to no symptoms can be resulting; regardless, their detection is extremely important before undertaking procedures or making surgical decisions. If associated symptoms are present, surgical correction of the vascular ring should be performed. For accurate diagnosis and evaluation of aortic arch anomalies, cross-sectional imaging modalities such as CT or MRI play an important role in providing three-dimensional reconstructed images. We here report one case of double aortic arch to highlight the contribution of imaging in the difficult diagnosis of this anomaly.