Axillofemoral Bypass to Treat Severe Heart Failure Caused by Takayasu's Arteritis

Takayasu's arteritis is an inflammatory vasculitis that primarily affects the aorta and its major branches. Involvement of the thoracic and abdominal aortas, although rare, causes marked hypertension and may lead to severe heart failure. We report the improvement of cardiac function after axill...

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Autores principales: Bang, Ji Hyun, Kim, Jong Wook, Jung, Sung-Ho, Lim, Ju Yong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22500284
http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2012.45.2.124
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author Bang, Ji Hyun
Kim, Jong Wook
Jung, Sung-Ho
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description Takayasu's arteritis is an inflammatory vasculitis that primarily affects the aorta and its major branches. Involvement of the thoracic and abdominal aortas, although rare, causes marked hypertension and may lead to severe heart failure. We report the improvement of cardiac function after axillofemoral bypass grafting in a 59-year-old woman who had this condition.
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spelling pubmed-33221832012-04-12 Axillofemoral Bypass to Treat Severe Heart Failure Caused by Takayasu's Arteritis Bang, Ji Hyun Kim, Jong Wook Jung, Sung-Ho Lim, Ju Yong Korean J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Case Report Takayasu's arteritis is an inflammatory vasculitis that primarily affects the aorta and its major branches. Involvement of the thoracic and abdominal aortas, although rare, causes marked hypertension and may lead to severe heart failure. We report the improvement of cardiac function after axillofemoral bypass grafting in a 59-year-old woman who had this condition. Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2012-04 2012-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3322183/ /pubmed/22500284 http://dx.doi.org/10.5090/kjtcs.2012.45.2.124 Text en © The Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2012. All right reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Axillofemoral Bypass to Treat Severe Heart Failure Caused by Takayasu's Arteritis
title Axillofemoral Bypass to Treat Severe Heart Failure Caused by Takayasu's Arteritis
title_full Axillofemoral Bypass to Treat Severe Heart Failure Caused by Takayasu's Arteritis
title_fullStr Axillofemoral Bypass to Treat Severe Heart Failure Caused by Takayasu's Arteritis
title_full_unstemmed Axillofemoral Bypass to Treat Severe Heart Failure Caused by Takayasu's Arteritis
title_short Axillofemoral Bypass to Treat Severe Heart Failure Caused by Takayasu's Arteritis
title_sort axillofemoral bypass to treat severe heart failure caused by takayasu's arteritis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322183/
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