PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Fong, L V AU - Venables, A W TI - Isolation of the left common carotid or left innominate artery. AID - 10.1136/hrt.57.6.552 DP - 1987 Jun 01 TA - British Heart Journal PG - 552--554 VI - 57 IP - 6 4099 - http://heart.bmj.com/content/57/6/552.short 4100 - http://heart.bmj.com/content/57/6/552.full SO - Heart1987 Jun 01; 57 AB - Isolation of the left common carotid or left innominate artery from the aortic arch is rare. A six week malformed infant with a right aortic arch had isolation of a left innominate artery and connection to the pulmonary artery by a left ductus arteriosus. A right ductus arteriosus had been ligated. Another infant with a right aortic arch and ostium primum atrial septal defect was shown to have an aberrant left subclavian artery arising from the lower descending aorta. The left common carotid artery filled retrogradely and drained into the pulmonary artery by a left ductus arteriosus. This abnormality has not been reported before.