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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Autores principales: Masood, Quratulain Fatima, Naeem, Anika, Tariq, Syed Maaz, Asad, Ali, Habib, Sara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Cardiology
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
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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.
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Masood, Quratulain Fatima
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Takayasu Arteritis: A Diagnosis Made Using a Multidisciplinary Approach
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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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