Takayasu’s arteritis in an adult female from Cameroon: diagnosis via Doppler echocardiography
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چکیده
Takayasu arteritis is rare in black people. Doppler echocardiography may assist in its diagnosis with good response to steroids.
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©2014 Turkish League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved. We read with interest the article by Akpınar et al. entitled “Left Main Coronary Dissection in a Patient with Takayasu's Arteritis” that was published in the Turkish Journal of Rheumatology. The authors reported on a 48-year-old female patient who was diagnosed with Takayasu’s arteritis along with a spontaneous left main coronary art...
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