Takayasu Arteritis-beyond Pulselessness.

Takayasu arteritis--beyond pulselessness.

Takayasu Arteritis is a chronic vasculitis, mainly involving the aorta and its main branches, as well as the coronary and pulmonary Arteritis to cause stenosis, and/or obstruction due to thrombusformation or aneurysmalformation and/or rupture of the involved arteries (1, 2) (Fig. 1). The first description of this morbid condition was reported in 1830 by Yamamoto in Japan (3). However, the first...

Visual loss in Takayasu Arteritis - Look Beyond the Eye.

Patients with Takayasu arteritis often present with reduced vision related either to the disease per se or due to complications of therapy. We report a patient with Takayasu arteritis who developed acute onset bilateral visual loss 6wks following percutaneous revascularization of occluded aortic arch branches. No ocular cause for the visual loss was evident. The reason for visual loss in this p...

Takayasu arteritis in a young female

Background: Takayasu arteritis is a granulomatous vasculitis which mainly involves the large arterial vessels. The disease is rare and it is more common in females aged between 15-30 years old. In this paper, we report a case of takayasu arteritis in Babol, north of Iran. Case Presentation: A 22 - year old female was admitted to the Department of Infectious Diseases of Rouhani Teaching Hospital...

Takayasu arteritis: a review.

Takayasu arteritis is a well known yet rare form of large vessel vasculitis. This review details the history, clinical features, differential diagnoses, classification, and immunology of the disorder. Suppression of inflammation and preservation of vascular competence are the aims of treatment. As with any rare disease, randomised controlled treatment trials are either lacking or based on small...

Procalcitonin in takayasu arteritis.