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An 82-year-old woman presented with fever, severe dyspnoea and pneumonia, which required non-invasive ventilation and intravenous antibiotics. She had a history of recurrent airway infections with inspiratory stridor and dysphagia. During the pneumonia work up, in order to unveil a predisposing condition for pneumonia, and rule out alternative diagnoses, a high resolution CT scan of the chest revealed the presence of a double aortic arch. Following this finding, a contrast-enhanced three-dimensional …