Cor Vasa 2018, 60(2):e114-e121 | DOI: 10.1016/j.crvasa.2017.06.002

Late outcomes after interventional treatment - Successful stenting of Takayasu arteritis lesions. Single center experience in Bulgaria

Ivo S. Petrov, Iveta G. Tasheva^*, Svetlin N. Tsonev, Zoran Stankov, Silvia A. Pavlova, Lachezar N. Grozdisnki

Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Phlebology, Acibadem City Clinic, Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria

Aim: The studied group included patients at different age and gender with follow-up period at least 1 year. The work represents endovascular treatment of patients with different localization of the disease and according to the target lesion proper endovascular access was selected.

Methods and results: The patients are divided into groups, depending on the Numano classification. Seven of studied patients were in age between 33 to 44 years, only 1 was 65 years old, 7 of them were females and one male. The patients were accumulated for the period of one year.
Doppler sonography was used for screening of the patients with known Takayasu disease. Treated lesions were as follows: left subclavian artery - 3 patients, right subclavian artery - 1 patient, right common carotid artery - 1 patient, brachiocephalic trunk - 1 patient, superior mesenteric artery - 2 patients, both external iliac arteries - 1 patient, LAD - 1 patient. Endovascular access of choice were right femoral, right radial, left radial, right brachial. The used devices were balloon expandable stents, self-expandable stents, DES/coronary, PTA only - DCB.

Conclusions: All Takayasu patients in our report were successfully treated with implantation of different types of stents. One-year results showed no significant restenosis, except in 1 patient with early restenosis until 6th month.

Keywords: Stenosis; Stents; Takayasu

Received: April 8, 2017; Revised: May 25, 2017; Accepted: June 3, 2017; Published: April 1, 2018  Show citation