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Scleritis in Takayasu Arteritis

Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic vasculitis of unknown etiology which primarily affects the aorta. The manifestations of this disease include secondary hypertension, reduced pulses, limb claudication, discrepant blood pressure, arterial bruits, and heart failure due to aortic insufficiency or co...

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Autores principales: Chittipolu, Swetha, Kennard, Jennifer L, Tumma, Rajachendra S, Doyle, Amy R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10191460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37206528
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37724
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author Chittipolu, Swetha
Kennard, Jennifer L
Tumma, Rajachendra S
Doyle, Amy R
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description Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic vasculitis of unknown etiology which primarily affects the aorta. The manifestations of this disease include secondary hypertension, reduced pulses, limb claudication, discrepant blood pressure, arterial bruits, and heart failure due to aortic insufficiency or coronary artery disease. The ophthalmological findings are late manifestations. Here, we present a case of a 54-year-old woman who presented with scleritis of the left eye. She sought care with an ophthalmologist and was treated with topical steroids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) with no relief. She then received oral prednisone with symptom amelioration. 
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spelling pubmed-101914602023-05-18 Scleritis in Takayasu Arteritis Chittipolu, Swetha Kennard, Jennifer L Tumma, Rajachendra S Doyle, Amy R Cureus Internal Medicine Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a chronic vasculitis of unknown etiology which primarily affects the aorta. The manifestations of this disease include secondary hypertension, reduced pulses, limb claudication, discrepant blood pressure, arterial bruits, and heart failure due to aortic insufficiency or coronary artery disease. The ophthalmological findings are late manifestations. Here, we present a case of a 54-year-old woman who presented with scleritis of the left eye. She sought care with an ophthalmologist and was treated with topical steroids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) with no relief. She then received oral prednisone with symptom amelioration.  Cureus 2023-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10191460/ /pubmed/37206528 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37724 Text en Copyright © 2023, Chittipolu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Chittipolu, Swetha
Kennard, Jennifer L
Tumma, Rajachendra S
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Scleritis in Takayasu Arteritis
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title_full Scleritis in Takayasu Arteritis
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title_full_unstemmed Scleritis in Takayasu Arteritis
title_short Scleritis in Takayasu Arteritis
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topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10191460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37206528
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37724
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