Takayasu's arteritis presenting with temporary loss of vision in a 23-year-old woman with beta thalassemia trait: a case report

INTRODUCTION: The simultaneous presence of Takayasu's arteritis and beta thalassemia trait is a rare combination. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report on Takayasu's arteritis and beta thalassemia presenting together. CASE PRESENTATION: This is a case report of a 23-y...

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Autores principales: Ishaq, Mohammad G, Shabbir, Fahad A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3187748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21933404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-466
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description INTRODUCTION: The simultaneous presence of Takayasu's arteritis and beta thalassemia trait is a rare combination. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report on Takayasu's arteritis and beta thalassemia presenting together. CASE PRESENTATION: This is a case report of a 23-year-old Asian woman of Pakistani descent who presented with a headache, blurred vision and dizziness. CONCLUSION: The correct diagnosis of our patient was based on clinical suspicion, appropriate imaging studies, and deliberation of the differential diagnosis. The management of our patient depended on the correct diagnosis of both the diseases.
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spelling pubmed-31877482011-10-06 Takayasu's arteritis presenting with temporary loss of vision in a 23-year-old woman with beta thalassemia trait: a case report Ishaq, Mohammad G Shabbir, Fahad A J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: The simultaneous presence of Takayasu's arteritis and beta thalassemia trait is a rare combination. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report on Takayasu's arteritis and beta thalassemia presenting together. CASE PRESENTATION: This is a case report of a 23-year-old Asian woman of Pakistani descent who presented with a headache, blurred vision and dizziness. CONCLUSION: The correct diagnosis of our patient was based on clinical suspicion, appropriate imaging studies, and deliberation of the differential diagnosis. The management of our patient depended on the correct diagnosis of both the diseases. BioMed Central 2011-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3187748/ /pubmed/21933404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-466 Text en Copyright ©2011 Ishaq and Shabbir; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Takayasu's arteritis presenting with temporary loss of vision in a 23-year-old woman with beta thalassemia trait: a case report
title Takayasu's arteritis presenting with temporary loss of vision in a 23-year-old woman with beta thalassemia trait: a case report
title_full Takayasu's arteritis presenting with temporary loss of vision in a 23-year-old woman with beta thalassemia trait: a case report
title_fullStr Takayasu's arteritis presenting with temporary loss of vision in a 23-year-old woman with beta thalassemia trait: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Takayasu's arteritis presenting with temporary loss of vision in a 23-year-old woman with beta thalassemia trait: a case report
title_short Takayasu's arteritis presenting with temporary loss of vision in a 23-year-old woman with beta thalassemia trait: a case report
title_sort takayasu's arteritis presenting with temporary loss of vision in a 23-year-old woman with beta thalassemia trait: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3187748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21933404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-5-466
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