Takayasu Arteritis Presenting as Intestinal Angina: Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease

Intestinal angina refers to abdominal pain resulting from reduced mesenteric blood flow. Although atherosclerosis is the most common cause, large vessel vasculitis is emerging as one of the common causes. We have reported a case of an 18-year-old female who presented with classical symptoms of intes...

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Autores principales: Nawghare, Pankaj, Thanage, Ravi, Jain, Shubham, Chandnani, Sanjay, Rathi, Pravin M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8865879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35228916
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21548
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author Nawghare, Pankaj
Thanage, Ravi
Jain, Shubham
Chandnani, Sanjay
Rathi, Pravin M
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description Intestinal angina refers to abdominal pain resulting from reduced mesenteric blood flow. Although atherosclerosis is the most common cause, large vessel vasculitis is emerging as one of the common causes. We have reported a case of an 18-year-old female who presented with classical symptoms of intestinal angina. On evaluation, the patient was found to have an abdominal aortic aneurysm with a compromised mesenteric blood supply. She was started on steroids and methotrexate along with anti-platelets and anticoagulants. She improved following the treatment and didn't have any complaints on follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-88658792022-02-27 Takayasu Arteritis Presenting as Intestinal Angina: Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease Nawghare, Pankaj Thanage, Ravi Jain, Shubham Chandnani, Sanjay Rathi, Pravin M Cureus Internal Medicine Intestinal angina refers to abdominal pain resulting from reduced mesenteric blood flow. Although atherosclerosis is the most common cause, large vessel vasculitis is emerging as one of the common causes. We have reported a case of an 18-year-old female who presented with classical symptoms of intestinal angina. On evaluation, the patient was found to have an abdominal aortic aneurysm with a compromised mesenteric blood supply. She was started on steroids and methotrexate along with anti-platelets and anticoagulants. She improved following the treatment and didn't have any complaints on follow-up. Cureus 2022-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8865879/ /pubmed/35228916 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21548 Text en Copyright © 2022, Nawghare 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 Internal Medicine
Nawghare, Pankaj
Thanage, Ravi
Jain, Shubham
Chandnani, Sanjay
Rathi, Pravin M
Takayasu Arteritis Presenting as Intestinal Angina: Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease
title Takayasu Arteritis Presenting as Intestinal Angina: Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease
title_full Takayasu Arteritis Presenting as Intestinal Angina: Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease
title_fullStr Takayasu Arteritis Presenting as Intestinal Angina: Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease
title_full_unstemmed Takayasu Arteritis Presenting as Intestinal Angina: Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease
title_short Takayasu Arteritis Presenting as Intestinal Angina: Unusual Presentation of a Rare Disease
title_sort takayasu arteritis presenting as intestinal angina: unusual presentation of a rare disease
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8865879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35228916
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21548
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