title: Iliorenal bypass for the treatment of type-3 Takayasu's disease. A case report with 10-year follow-up.
abstract: The case of a 16-year old female with severe renovascular hypertension resulting from type-3 Takayasu's arteritis is reported. The entire thoracic and abdominal aorta was affected by an active inflammatory process and all its branches were stenotic or occluded. After the early failure of a percutaneous balloon angioplasty of the left renal artery, an iliac to renal artery bypass graft using a reversed autologous saphenous vein was performed through a retroperitoneal tunnel The patient is asymptomatic and the graft is patent at 10-year follow-up.
authors.affiliation: 1st Department of Surgery, La Sapienza University, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mingoli
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sapienza
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: di Marzo
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sciacca
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Burchi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cavallaro
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000473:pathology; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006978:Hypertension, Renovascular / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D007083:Iliac Artery / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D012077:Renal Artery / Q000601:surgery; D012501:Saphenous Vein / Q000637:transplantation; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*