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Kommerell’s Diverticulum with aberrant right subclavian artery
Heart & Blood Health | Last Active: Sep 19, 2023 | Replies (62)Comment receiving replies
Hi, not sure if this is still active. I am going to see a specialist for unrelated issues and was going through old reports/data. I am 37 year old male and 10 years ago, doctor thought I had cancer and wanted to see if it spread so did a chest CT scan. It turned out to be false alarm and he was wrong and there was no cancer anywhere. I just looked at the report and actually read it where it mentions incidental finding of aberrant right subclavian artery stemming from diverculosis kommerell. The doctor never brought this up to me 10 years ago. I am in the process of setting up appointment with a vascular surgeon and would imagine I need current imaging. Have any of you have this? Is this something that you just live with and it's not an issue? What sort of lab work/imagining did you have on this? Did you put in stents? Any info on this would be much appreciated! There is really not much on the web about this.
Thank you!
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Hi!! So sorry to hear you had to go through all of this. I had aberrant right subclavian. I had surgery Nov 2019 at Mayo Rochester with Dr. Bower. My case is unique in the sense- i had no symptoms whatsoever. I also had no dilatation of the aberrant artery. I did have a large left subclavian aneurysm and descending aortic aneurysm. My cardiologist here in Florida sent me to Mayo right away, and with Dr. Bower and Dr. Pochettino help I had a 2 day surgery-- day one Dr. Bower relocated my aberrant artery to my carotid( only because it was in the way for my aortic grafts I needed) and day 2 Dr. Pochettino replaced a large portion of my aorta and left subclavian. I highly recommend if you are needing a second opinion trying Mayo. Not many doctors know how to approach an aberrant artery. If your not having symptoms it may just require some routine imaging--mine was a Ct scan. I was told the main issue with this is the development of Kommeralls diverticulum-- which is basically an aneurysm on the right subclavian-which doesn't happen all the time. Dr. Bower told me that if I did not need the aberrant artery moved because it was in the way of the graft for my other issues- he doubts my aberrant artery would have ever caused me any issues. I highly recommend before you panic to see a dr who is well experienced with this issue like Dr. Bower. It really did help me. Best wishes.
Jeane