title: Takayasu arteritis: use of drug-eluting stent and balloon to treat recurring carotid restenosis.
abstract: Takayasu arteritis (TA) is an inflammatory disease affecting large and medium-sized arteries and causing occlusive, aneurysmal, or stenotic lesions. It is also known that with chronic course, the disease has a tendency to recur at either the same site or different. We report a patient with TA whose carotid stenosis was initially treated with bare metal stents but the patient suffered from recurring localized restenosis. Eventually, the patient was treated with (off-label) coronary drug-eluting stent and drug-eluting balloon with favorable long-term outcome. Therefore, we suggest that drug-eluting interventions might have a place in treatment of TA patients with recurring restenosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology - CardioVascular Center, Motol University Hospital, 2nd Medical School, Charles University, V Uvalu 84, 150 06, Prague 5, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Miloslav
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Spacek
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zimolova
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Veselka
mesh_terms: D015906:Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary; D023903:Coronary Restenosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D054855:Drug-Eluting Stents; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome