TREATMENT OF TAKAYASUS-AORTITIS WITH PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY AND WALL STENT - A CASE-REPORT

The authors describe a young woman who developed severe toxemia during pregnancy, requiring emergency lower segment cesarian section at 27 w eeks of gestation. Postpartum angiography showed a discrete stenotic l esion of the abdominal aorta proximal to the origin of the renal arter y. Angioplasty was performed, followed by the insertion of a wall sten t at the site of the stenosis. Her hypertension control improved drama tically after the stenting. This is, so far, the first reported case u sing a wall stent following angioplasty to relieve abdominal aortic st enosis due to Takayasu's arteritis.