Carotid endovascular therapy evolution based in one case

The endovascular technique for the treatment of carotid obstructive disease improved substantially in the last years. The addition of stents, the utilization and improvement of cerebral protection devices, new drugs and materials, the spread of the techniques and information, among others, bring a great interest in the medical community. Our objective is show this evolution, explaining each step, based on our first stent case which, seven years later, was submitted to a new procedure on the other carotid, allowing a beautiful comparison between both procedures. (author)