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The Role of Echocardiography in Evaluation of Takayasu’s Arteritis: A Report of Two Cases

Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is a large-vessel chronic inflammatory vasculitis that leads to thrombotic vascular occlusion. This can lead to varied presentations including limb claudication, ischemic stroke, hypertension, and heart failure. Although contrast computed tomography angiography is the main...

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Autores principales: Patel, Aman, Velamakanni, Subrahmanya Murti, Parikh, Rinal M, Pandya, Sapan, Patel, Tejas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8237925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34221751
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15286
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author Patel, Aman
Velamakanni, Subrahmanya Murti
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Pandya, Sapan
Patel, Tejas
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description Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is a large-vessel chronic inflammatory vasculitis that leads to thrombotic vascular occlusion. This can lead to varied presentations including limb claudication, ischemic stroke, hypertension, and heart failure. Although contrast computed tomography angiography is the main modality for imaging of the aorta and its branches, transthoracic echocardiography can be an easy-to-access, point-of-care, initial screening tool for evaluating the aorta and other cardiac structures. We present echocardiographic images from two cases that demonstrate the important cardiac structural and vascular afflictions of TA.
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spelling pubmed-82379252021-07-01 The Role of Echocardiography in Evaluation of Takayasu’s Arteritis: A Report of Two Cases Patel, Aman Velamakanni, Subrahmanya Murti Parikh, Rinal M Pandya, Sapan Patel, Tejas Cureus Cardiology Takayasu’s arteritis (TA) is a large-vessel chronic inflammatory vasculitis that leads to thrombotic vascular occlusion. This can lead to varied presentations including limb claudication, ischemic stroke, hypertension, and heart failure. Although contrast computed tomography angiography is the main modality for imaging of the aorta and its branches, transthoracic echocardiography can be an easy-to-access, point-of-care, initial screening tool for evaluating the aorta and other cardiac structures. We present echocardiographic images from two cases that demonstrate the important cardiac structural and vascular afflictions of TA. Cureus 2021-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8237925/ /pubmed/34221751 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15286 Text en Copyright © 2021, Patel et al. https://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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Patel, Aman
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The Role of Echocardiography in Evaluation of Takayasu’s Arteritis: A Report of Two Cases
title The Role of Echocardiography in Evaluation of Takayasu’s Arteritis: A Report of Two Cases
title_full The Role of Echocardiography in Evaluation of Takayasu’s Arteritis: A Report of Two Cases
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title_sort role of echocardiography in evaluation of takayasu’s arteritis: a report of two cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8237925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34221751
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15286
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