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

Abstract

AimThe 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 resultsThe patients are divided into groups, depending on the Numano classification. Seven of studied patients were in age between 33 and 44 years, only 1 was 65 years old, 7 of them were females and 1 male. The patients were accumulated for the period of 1 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, and right brachial. The used devices were balloon-expandable stents, self-expandable stents, DES/coronary/, PTA only – DCB. ConclusionsAll 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.