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Takayasu Arteritis: A Diagnosis Made Using a Multidisciplinary Approach
Takayasu arteritis is an idiopathic chronic vasculitis that involves large blood vessels, including the aorta and its main branches. This disease presents typically as ischemia or aneurysms that could be prevented by timely diagnosis and vigilant management. We present here the case of a 19-year-old...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089487/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30112257 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2781 |
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author | Masood, Quratulain Fatima Naeem, Anika Tariq, Syed Maaz Asad, Ali Habib, Sara |
author_facet | Masood, Quratulain Fatima Naeem, Anika Tariq, Syed Maaz Asad, Ali Habib, Sara |
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description | Takayasu arteritis is an idiopathic chronic vasculitis that involves large blood vessels, including the aorta and its main branches. This disease presents typically as ischemia or aneurysms that could be prevented by timely diagnosis and vigilant management. We present here the case of a 19-year-old male who presented with a history of visual disturbance, chest pain, dizziness, and a feeble pulse. |
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spelling | pubmed-60894872018-08-15 Takayasu Arteritis: A Diagnosis Made Using a Multidisciplinary Approach Masood, Quratulain Fatima Naeem, Anika Tariq, Syed Maaz Asad, Ali Habib, Sara Cureus Cardiology Takayasu arteritis is an idiopathic chronic vasculitis that involves large blood vessels, including the aorta and its main branches. This disease presents typically as ischemia or aneurysms that could be prevented by timely diagnosis and vigilant management. We present here the case of a 19-year-old male who presented with a history of visual disturbance, chest pain, dizziness, and a feeble pulse. Cureus 2018-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6089487/ /pubmed/30112257 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2781 Text en Copyright © 2018, Masood et al. http://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. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Masood, Quratulain Fatima Naeem, Anika Tariq, Syed Maaz Asad, Ali Habib, Sara Takayasu Arteritis: A Diagnosis Made Using a Multidisciplinary Approach |
title | Takayasu Arteritis: A Diagnosis Made Using a Multidisciplinary Approach |
title_full | Takayasu Arteritis: A Diagnosis Made Using a Multidisciplinary Approach |
title_fullStr | Takayasu Arteritis: A Diagnosis Made Using a Multidisciplinary Approach |
title_full_unstemmed | Takayasu Arteritis: A Diagnosis Made Using a Multidisciplinary Approach |
title_short | Takayasu Arteritis: A Diagnosis Made Using a Multidisciplinary Approach |
title_sort | takayasu arteritis: a diagnosis made using a multidisciplinary approach |
topic | Cardiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6089487/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30112257 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2781 |
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