A Case of Takayasu Arteritis Presenting with Renovascular Hypertension
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Takayasu arteritis-associated pulmonary hypertension.
OBJECTIVE To investigate the probable pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, and therapy of patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) in Takayasu arteritis (TA). METHODS A total of 48 patients with TA who had PH, 20 patients with TA who had pulmonary arterial involvement (PA) without PH, and 30 patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) were enrolled in the study fro...
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Takayasu arteritis is an inflammatory disease that affects large vessels, especially the aorta and its branches. The clinical features of the disease depend on which arteries are affected. Although pulmonary artery involvement is common, only rarely is this the main clinical manifestation. We describe the case of a young woman with dyspnea who had severe pulmonary hypertension secondary to Taka...
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Discussion Our patient fulfills all the American College of Rheumatology criteria for TA [5] , and vessel vasculitis was histologically proven. Arterial dissection in TA is rare [2, 6] , with few reports of aortic dissection [7] and only one report of ICA dissection [8] . In our patient, at the moment of ICA dissection, all the other aortic archs and their branches were angiographically normal ...
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BACKGROUND Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a rare chronic granulomatous inflammatory disease of the aorta and/or its major branches and more frequently affects female patients before menopause. Since persistent inflammation may lead to arterial ischemia, hypertension is an important complication of TA. OBJECTIVES To evaluate gestational results and complications in patients with TA. METHODS We c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1300-0381,2146-8990
DOI: 10.5336/pediatr.2016-50176