Takayasu arteritis is a chronic, granulomatous arteritis affecting large and medium-sized arteries. During pregnancy, maternal and foetal complications are largely as a consequence of maternal arterial hypertension. We present a case of a 35-year-old para one gravida two patient with Takayasu arteritis (group III disease) complicated by chronic hypertension and a severely dilated ascending aort...

Two patients with the aortic arch syndrome and biopsy-proved but asymptomatic temporal giant cell arteritis are described. Corticosteroid treatment was followed by the return of peripheral pulsation in these two patients after an interval of a few months. A review of the literature suggests that of patients where giant cell arteritis causes subclavin obstruction there is an undue predominance o...

Takayasu arteritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that primarily affects large arteries such as the aorta and its proximal branches. The association between Takayasu arteritis and ulcerative colitis is an extremely rare condition. Ulcerative colitis is an inflammatory bowel disease, clinical presentation is not specific and may mimic Crohn's disease, radiation colitis, ischemic colitis, a va...

Cranial Arteritis With Liver Involvement • An elderly man with cranial nerve palsies was found to have cranial arteritis. Laboratory studies established concurrent liver disease which improved with treatment. The liver and brain stem pathology is discussed. ADDITIONAL

BACKGROUND Kawasaki disease is the most common cause of acquired cardiac disease and acute vasculitis in children, targets the coronary arteries, and can occasionally be fatal. The pathogenesis and the molecular mechanisms remain unknown. After injection of Lactobacillus casei cell-wall extract (LCCWE), mice develop a focal coronary arteritis that histopathologically resembles Kawasaki disease,...

OBJECTIVE Nod1 is an intracellular pattern recognition receptor for bacterial peptidoglycan fragments. We previously reported that a synthetic Nod1 ligand, FK565, induced acute coronary arteritis in mice similar to that of Kawasaki disease. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying this characteristic inflammation have remained elusive. APPROACH AND RESULTS We found that CD11c(+)MHC class ...

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...

In recent years, rheumatologists have focused on the diagnosis and treatment of early-onset RA (EORA) in order to prevent joint erosion. Diagnosing LORA has also proven to be somewhat difficult because of the overlapping clinical features of these two types of RA. However, LORA differs clinically from EORA in some important ways. In addition, LORA also has similar presentations to other disease...

INTRODUCTION Giant cell arteritis is the most common form of large-vessel vasculitides. However, it is probable that extracranial involvement is underdiagnosed in patients with classical giant cell arteritis. In the recent literature most cases of giant cell arteritis have been described in conjunction with aortic aneurysms or dissections. Nonetheless the coexistence of giant cell arteritis and...

A 44-year-old housewife was found to have coarctation of the abdominal aorta secondary to Takayasu's arteritis. Since she also had mitral stenosis, possible etiological relation between Takayasu's arteritis and mitral stenosis is suspected.