MR-ANGIOGRAPHY IN DIAGNOSING AND FOLLOWIN G UP THE TREATMENT RESULT -ARTERIA LUSORIA

Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are presented in a 29-year-old f emale patient who suffered from severe dysphagia and rapid loss in wei ght. In the conventional X-ray examination and barium swallow an aberr ant right subclavian artery was suspected. MR imaging (MRI) and MR ang iography (MRA) were done to plan the surgical correction. Postoperativ e MRA documented exactly the complex topography after surgical correct ion and the flow pattern in the implanted Gore-Tex stretch graft prost hesis. Non-invasive MR angiography renders possible the concrete plann ing of complex corrections of thoracic vessels replacing invasive cath eter angiography.