Takayasu’s Arteritis - An Unusual Cause of Stroke in a Young Patient

We describe the case of a 28-year-old-male with no significant medical history who presented with right-sided hemiparesis, bruits over the carotid and subclavian arteries and an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Imaging studies revealed a middle cerebral artery thrombus and inflammatory chang...

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Autor principal: Silver, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2012
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Diagnostic Acumen
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3555585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23359834
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.12.6881
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description We describe the case of a 28-year-old-male with no significant medical history who presented with right-sided hemiparesis, bruits over the carotid and subclavian arteries and an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Imaging studies revealed a middle cerebral artery thrombus and inflammatory changes of the carotid and subclavian arteries and aorta. The diagnosis of Takayasu’s arteritis was made and the patient was started on steroids and immunomodulators with good clinical response.
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spelling pubmed-35555852013-01-28 Takayasu’s Arteritis - An Unusual Cause of Stroke in a Young Patient Silver, Matthew West J Emerg Med Diagnostic Acumen We describe the case of a 28-year-old-male with no significant medical history who presented with right-sided hemiparesis, bruits over the carotid and subclavian arteries and an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Imaging studies revealed a middle cerebral artery thrombus and inflammatory changes of the carotid and subclavian arteries and aorta. The diagnosis of Takayasu’s arteritis was made and the patient was started on steroids and immunomodulators with good clinical response. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2012-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3555585/ /pubmed/23359834 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2011.12.6881 Text en Copyright © 2012 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3555585/
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