This article focuses upon the multiple aortic arches present in the embryo.

The aortic arch may be small in babies with coarctations.

The left arises from the aortic arch in the thoracic region.

Congenital abnormalities of the aortic arch have been known for a long time.

The baby needed an operation to repair a constricted aortic arch in her heart.

Of these, a little more than half are caused by double aortic arch.

Because symptoms of double aortic arch are often mild, the problem may not be discovered until the child is a few years old.

The symptoms may lead a doctor to suspect double aortic arch.

The aortic arch is the top part of the main artery carrying blood away from the heart.

One bullet had gone through the aortic arch to lodge in the left lung.