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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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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 Parikh, Rinal M 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. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Patel, Aman Velamakanni, Subrahmanya Murti Parikh, Rinal M Pandya, Sapan Patel, Tejas 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 |
title_fullStr | The Role of Echocardiography in Evaluation of Takayasu’s Arteritis: A Report of Two Cases |
title_full_unstemmed | The Role of Echocardiography in Evaluation of Takayasu’s Arteritis: A Report of Two Cases |
title_short | The Role of Echocardiography in Evaluation of Takayasu’s Arteritis: A Report of Two Cases |
title_sort | role of echocardiography in evaluation of takayasu’s arteritis: a report of two cases |
topic | Cardiology |
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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