background & aim: takayasu’s arteritis is a rare, chronic vasculitis, affecting women of reproductive age. with disease progression, evidence of vascular involvement and insufficiency becomes clinically apparent due to the narrowing or occlusion of the proximal or distal branches of the aorta. therefore, pregnancy-related complications, such as superimposed preeclampsia, renal failure, and cong...

background: we examined whether pregnant women with preeclampsia have an increased rate of pre-pregnancy polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos). this study also evaluated whether the association, if any, was a result of preeclampsia and its relationship to pcos or dependent upon concurrent obesity. materials and methods: in this study, 75 preeclampsia cases and 225 normotensive pregnant controls, mat...