title: Successful bilateral transaortic renal endarterectomy after failed renal artery angioplasty and stenting: a case report.
abstract: Restenosis after renal angioplasty and stenting is usually treated with repeat angioplasty or surgery. Because development of substantial postangioplasty periarterial fibrosis is thought to preclude transaortic endarterectomy, renal artery bypass grafting has been the operation of choice in this setting. This report describes successful bilateral transaortic renal thromboendarterectomy undertaken for the treatment of restenosis after percutaneous angioplasty and stenting for renovascular hypertension caused by bilateral renal artery nonostial stenosis.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, USA.
authors.forename: Laura K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Pak
authors.forename: Robert K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Kerlan
authors.forename: Thaddeus W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Mully
authors.forename: Louis M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Messina
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017130:Angioplasty; D004691:Endarterectomy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012077:Renal Artery; D012078:Renal Artery Obstruction / Q000628:therapy*; D015607:Stents; D017211:Treatment Failure