A Rare Case of Aortic Atresia and Interrupted Aortic Arch Type B Survival, Anatomic Importance of a Vertebral Artery and the Circle of Willis, a Case Report and Review of the Literature

Anusha Bai Kalithkar, Juanita Montoya Arango, Phillip Zegelbone, Christopher Schettino, Sethuraman Swaminathan, Jaime Alkon, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Holtz Children, s Hospital, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery

Published online on March 13, 2026

Abstract

World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Ahead of Print.
Aortic atresia with interrupted aortic arch is a rare and critical congenital cardiac anomaly. We report a unique case of Type B interruption with aortic atresia, in which cerebral and coronary perfusion were solely dependent on the left vertebral artery ...