Endovascular repair of symptomatic external carotid artery stenosis

Eisenberg, Joshua A. MD
Dimuzio, Paul J. MD
Carabasi, Anthony MD
Larson, Robert MD
Lombardi, Joseph V. MD

Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Penn

Correspondence: Joshua A. Eisenberg, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Department of Surgery, 105 Walnut Street, Ste 605, Philadelphia, PA 19107. (e-mail: [email protected])

Competition of interest: none.

Submitted May 9, 2005; accepted Jun 30, 2005

Journal of Vascular Surgery 42(6):p 1210-1212, December 2005.

The treatment of external carotid artery stenosis has been described with a variety of operative interventions. We present a patient who presented with amaurosis fugax and a critical left external carotid artery stenosis with known left internal carotid artery occlusion. We treated this stenosis with angioplasty and stenting rather than endarterectomy. Our patient did well and had no complications from the procedure. Endovascular repair of symptomatic external carotid artery stenosis provides an alternative treatment method to conventional endarterectomy for patients with high surgical risk.