PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | takayasu arteritis |
| Symptom | C0242231|coronary artery stenosis |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 21359067 | Clinical deterioration caused by severe fixed stenosis is a challenging issue because of restenosis of in-stent lesions.4)5) a previous study has suggested that endoluminal stenting may be an alternative treatment to coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery for patients with coronary artery stenosis due to active takayasu's arteritis.6) some studies have reported that takayasu's arteritis with left main coronary artery (lmca) stenosis is successfully treated with the use of a sirolimus-eluting stent and a paclitaxel-eluting stent after repeated in-stent restenosis following bare metal stenting.4)7-9) however, we report here the case of a 54-year-old woman with recurrent restenosis of an in-stent lesion followed by myocardial infarction, who eventually underwent cabg. |
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