Takayasu arteritis presenting as embolic stroke

Takayasu arteritis presenting as a pulmonary-renal syndrome.

Takayasu arteritis is an uncommon disease with a variety of presentations. We report a case of Takayasu arteritis with a presentation of a pulmonary-renal syndrome in a 22-year-old woman. She presented in acute respiratory failure with hemoptysis and acute renal failure; interestingly, however, the renal biopsy was normal. Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) showed significant narrowing in the...

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 presenting with internal carotid artery dissection.

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 ...

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.