BACKGROUND Takayasu arteritis is a granulomatous panarteritis that predominantly affects the aorta and its major branches. The initial manifestations of this large-vessel vasculitis are usually nonspecific; however, as the disease progresses, typical symptoms of arterial occlusion, aneurysmal formation, and vascular pain become evident. Ischemic ocular complications of Takayasu arteritis which ...

takayasu’s arteritis (ta) is a rare case of granulomatous arteritis which mainly involves the aorta and its large branches. although arterial hypertension is the most common feature of the disease in both adults and children, patients with ta may present with numerous clinical manifestations. our patient was a 45-year-old woman, known to have hypertension from 3 years earlier following assessme...

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...

Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic inflammatory disease of large arteries which progressively develop stenosis, occlusion or aneurismal degeneration. Proinflammatory cytokines and, among these, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) are increased and play a pathogenetic role in the development of disease. Conventional therapy often fails to determine clinical remission and, in these cases, p...

INTRODUCTION Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic vasculitis of unknown origin, affecting mainly the aorta and its main branches. As a result of the inflammation, stenosis, occlusion or dilatation of the involved vessels may occur and cause a wide range of symptoms. It has been described in association with various auto-immune disorders (mainly inflammatory digestive tract diseases). However, o...

La dissection aortique est une complication très rare de la maladie de Takayasu.Dans la littérature récente seulement 14 cas ont été publiés. Nous rapportons le cas d'un maghrébin âgé de 67 ans, présentant une dissection aigue de l'aorte thoracique descendante et de l'aorte abdominale avec un syndrome inflammatoire, révélateur d'une maladie de Takayasu. Le type de l'atteinte aortique (type III ...

La maladie de Takayasu est une maladie vasculaire inflammatoire rare, touchant préférentiellement la jeune femme avec une atteinte prépondérante de l'aorte et ses premières branches de divisions. Nous rapportons le cas d'une atteinte ostiale du tronc commun gauche au décours d'un syndrome coronarien aigu ST négatif révélant une maladie de Takayasu et nous détaillerons les différentes manifestat...