Takayasu’s Arteritis Associated with Tuberculosis in a Young Yemeni Woman

Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is an autoimmune disease that affects the big arteries. A possible relationship between TA and tuberculosis (TB) has been suggested. Both diseases have similar chronic inflammatory lesions and occasionally granulomas on the arterial walls. We report a case of TA associated...

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Autores principales: Al-Aghbari, Khaled, Al-Motarreb, Ahmed, Askar, Faiza
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21577380
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.76804
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author Al-Aghbari, Khaled
Al-Motarreb, Ahmed
Askar, Faiza
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description Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is an autoimmune disease that affects the big arteries. A possible relationship between TA and tuberculosis (TB) has been suggested. Both diseases have similar chronic inflammatory lesions and occasionally granulomas on the arterial walls. We report a case of TA associated with TB.
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spelling pubmed-30898232011-05-16 Takayasu’s Arteritis Associated with Tuberculosis in a Young Yemeni Woman Al-Aghbari, Khaled Al-Motarreb, Ahmed Askar, Faiza Heart Views Case Report Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is an autoimmune disease that affects the big arteries. A possible relationship between TA and tuberculosis (TB) has been suggested. Both diseases have similar chronic inflammatory lesions and occasionally granulomas on the arterial walls. We report a case of TA associated with TB. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3089823/ /pubmed/21577380 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.76804 Text en © Gulf Heart Association http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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 work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Al-Aghbari, Khaled
Al-Motarreb, Ahmed
Askar, Faiza
Takayasu’s Arteritis Associated with Tuberculosis in a Young Yemeni Woman
title Takayasu’s Arteritis Associated with Tuberculosis in a Young Yemeni Woman
title_full Takayasu’s Arteritis Associated with Tuberculosis in a Young Yemeni Woman
title_fullStr Takayasu’s Arteritis Associated with Tuberculosis in a Young Yemeni Woman
title_full_unstemmed Takayasu’s Arteritis Associated with Tuberculosis in a Young Yemeni Woman
title_short Takayasu’s Arteritis Associated with Tuberculosis in a Young Yemeni Woman
title_sort takayasu’s arteritis associated with tuberculosis in a young yemeni woman
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21577380
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.76804
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