page_title: Ascending aorta
hierarchical_section_title: Ascending aorta
caption_attribution_description: English: Relations of the aorta, trachea, esophagus and other structures of and around the heart. Anterior view. Structures are appearing as transparent in order to visualize overlapping structures, but are not transparent in reality.
context_page_description: The ascending aorta is a portion of the aorta commencing at the upper part of the base of the left ventricle, on a level with the lower border of the third costal cartilage behind the left half of the sternum.
context_section_description: The ascending aorta (AAo) is a portion of the aorta commencing at the upper part of the base of the left ventricle, on a level with the lower border of the third costal cartilage behind the left half of the sternum.
caption: Course of the ascending aorta (anterior view), as it passes dorsally to the pulmonary trunk but ventrally to the right pulmonary artery.
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