Takayasu’s Disease With Bilateral Carotid Arteritis in a Caucasian Female: A Rare Presentation and Diagnostic Dilemma

Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is not an uncommon cause of vasculitis in Caucasian females, however, involvement of bilateral carotid artery is a very rare presentation. We are presenting a 31-year-old young Caucasian female who presented with left-sided neck pain, headache and was subsequently found to h...

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Autores principales: Yadava, Sanjay, Arafa, Fatema, Shepherd, Zachary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8653919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34909323
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19376
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description Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is not an uncommon cause of vasculitis in Caucasian females, however, involvement of bilateral carotid artery is a very rare presentation. We are presenting a 31-year-old young Caucasian female who presented with left-sided neck pain, headache and was subsequently found to have vasculitis of bilateral carotid arteries.
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spelling pubmed-86539192021-12-13 Takayasu’s Disease With Bilateral Carotid Arteritis in a Caucasian Female: A Rare Presentation and Diagnostic Dilemma Yadava, Sanjay Arafa, Fatema Shepherd, Zachary Cureus Internal Medicine Takayasu arteritis (TAK) is not an uncommon cause of vasculitis in Caucasian females, however, involvement of bilateral carotid artery is a very rare presentation. We are presenting a 31-year-old young Caucasian female who presented with left-sided neck pain, headache and was subsequently found to have vasculitis of bilateral carotid arteries. Cureus 2021-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8653919/ /pubmed/34909323 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19376 Text en Copyright © 2021, Yadava 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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Takayasu’s Disease With Bilateral Carotid Arteritis in a Caucasian Female: A Rare Presentation and Diagnostic Dilemma
title Takayasu’s Disease With Bilateral Carotid Arteritis in a Caucasian Female: A Rare Presentation and Diagnostic Dilemma
title_full Takayasu’s Disease With Bilateral Carotid Arteritis in a Caucasian Female: A Rare Presentation and Diagnostic Dilemma
title_fullStr Takayasu’s Disease With Bilateral Carotid Arteritis in a Caucasian Female: A Rare Presentation and Diagnostic Dilemma
title_full_unstemmed Takayasu’s Disease With Bilateral Carotid Arteritis in a Caucasian Female: A Rare Presentation and Diagnostic Dilemma
title_short Takayasu’s Disease With Bilateral Carotid Arteritis in a Caucasian Female: A Rare Presentation and Diagnostic Dilemma
title_sort takayasu’s disease with bilateral carotid arteritis in a caucasian female: a rare presentation and diagnostic dilemma
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8653919/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19376
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