Case report of a vascular ring with a ventricular septal defect in an infant

Abstract

Vascular ring is a congenital anomaly in which the aortic arch and its branches partially or completely encircle and compress the trachea , esophagus or both. It has several forms, the commonest form is the double aortic arch. We report acase of a six months' girl with a failure to thrive and tachydyspnea  accompanied  with recurrent vomiting, in which the final diagnosis was ventricle septum defect with incomplete vascular ring.