Gangrene of the terminal portions of the limbs may be due to obstruction in the peripheral vessels, large or small, or it may be associated with cardiac failure as in rheumatic or ischaemic heart disease (Swan and Henderson, 1951), with ball valve thrombi, or with pulmonary disease (Boulet, Serre, Vedel, Vallat, and Mirouze, 1949; Hejtmancik and Bruce, 1953). In a case of mitral stenosis and ga...

Polymyalgia rheumatica is a clinical syndrome affecting middle-aged and elderly persons and is characterized by periarthritic and muscular pain and stiffness particularly in the shoulder and hip girdles. Systemic symptoms are present, the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (E.S.R.) is greatly elevated, and the Waaler-Rose test is almost invariably negative. Suppression of symptoms with corticostero...

BACKGROUND Coronary involvement in Takayasu's arteritis is a rare but fatal disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the early and mid-term results of Takayasu's arteritis patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). MATERIALS AND METHODS Of 2,280 patients who underwent isolated CABG from January 1998 to June 2012, Takayasu's arteritis was identified in 5 patients. The...

Takayasu arteritis is a chronic vasculitis involving the large vessels. At diagnosis, ischemic symptom are usually present in the affected vessels. However, fever of unknown origin (FUO) is rare as an initial presentation and renders the condition difficult to diagnose. In this case report, we describe a patient who presented with a fever of unknown origin. A 68-year-old female was diagnosed wi...

Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a chronic, idiopathic, inflammatory disease, that is more common in females and Asian countries. A 38-year-old female presented with recurrent vertigo. Detailed examination revealed discrepancies in peripheral pulses and raised blood pressure in bilateral lower limbs. Possibility of vasculitis involving arch of aorta or its branches was kept. Investigations were sug...

A 50-year-old woman reporting sudden-onset chest pain was diagnosed as having pulmonary infarction associated with Takayasus arteritis. She had experienced moderate malaise and cough for 3 months. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed wedge-shaped infiltrative shadows typical of pulmonary infarction in the right lung. Although pulmonary artery involvement in Takay...

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Takayasu arteritis is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology primarily affecting the aorta and its major branches and usually occurring in the second or third decade of life. Here, we report a case of Takayasu arteritis in a 10-month-old patient. The infant presented with signs of congestive heart failure and severe aortic regurgitation. Echocardiography and computed tomography angi...

Head pain is the most common complaint in patients with giant cell arteritis but the headache has no distinct diagnostic features. There have been no published reports of giant cell arteritis presenting as a trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia. We describe a patient who developed a new onset headache in her fifties, which fit the diagnostic criteria for paroxysmal hemicrania and was completely res...

Takayasu arteritis (also known as pulseless disease, aortoarteritis, and aortic arch syndrome) is a chronic, inflammatory and occlusive vasculitis of the aorta and its primary branches as well as the pulmonary arteries. It predominantly affects young females, particularly from India and South East Asia.Subclavian steal syndrome secondary to takayasu arteritis occurs when there is severe stenosi...