takayasu's arteritis and crohn's disease co morbidity seems to be rare. to our knowledge, no patient with crohn - takayasu syndrome has been reported yet from our region. herein we present a 22 year old iranian woman previously diagnosed with crohn's disease with subsequent development of takayasu's arteritis.

arteritis due to strongylus vulgaris is a well-known cause of colic in horses and donkeys. the current report describes a fatal incidence of arterial obstruction in cranial mesenteric artery caused by s. vulgaris infection in an adult donkey in which anthelmintic treatment was not regularly administered. necropsy findings of the abdominal cavity revealed a complete cranial mesenteric arterial o...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 takayasu's arteritis (ta), also known as pulseless disease or occlusive thromboaortopathy, is a form of vasculitis of unknown cause that chiefly affects the aorta and its major branches, most frequently in young women. we describe an 18-year-old female with a soft and pulsatile mass in the left side of her neck. normal 0 f...

The association between actinic granuloma and giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis) has been claimed by some authors. There is a hypothesis that actinic radiation has the principal role in the etiology of both diseases in a similar way. Here, we report a case of actinic granuloma that had characteristic pathologic features of giant cell arteritis in histopathologic examination without clini...

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Segmental arterial mediolysis (SAM) is a presumably vasospastic disorder [1]. SAM commonly involves large to medium sized intraabdominal, cerebral and rarely coronary arteries. In 1943, Kernohan and Woltman described arteries with features of SAM in the posterior circulation of the brain for the first time [2]. The first case of SAM was presented in 1976 by Slavin and Gonzalez [3]. At first the...