BACKGROUND Takayasu Arteritis is an idiopathic, chronic, large vessel vasculitis involving the aorta and its primary branches. Few studies have been done in pediatric patients to date with the largest case series of US patients published in 2003 consisting of only 6 patients. METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed on all patients seen at Cleveland Clinic Children's up until 2012 w...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the presence of glomerulonephritis is or is not associated with the extent of arterial wall inflammatory cell infiltrate in Takayasu arthritis (TA). METHODS Retrospective chart and pathology review of large artery and kidney specimens of TA autopsy cases. Kidney specimens were classified, according to their histopathological findings, in those with specific glome...

Background—With recent advances in endovascular treatment, percutaneous endoluminal angioplasty has become particularly attractive for arterial lesions of Takayasu arteritis. However, data came from case reports or small series, and the long-term outcome has not been reported. The incidence of potential vascular complications after surgery or endovascular treatment is still to be determined. Me...

L’artérite de Takayasu ou maladie de Takayasu (MT) et la polyarthrite rhumatoïde (PR) et sont deux maladies inflammatoires chroniques et leur association a été rapportée dans la littérature à travers quelques observations de cas sporadiques. Nous rapportons une nouvelle observation d’une telle association. Une patiente âgée de 44 ans, diagnostiquée avec une polyarthrite rhumatoïde à facteur rhu...

The Confused Terminology and Changing Concept of Takayasu's Arteritis In 1908 the Japanese opihthalmologist, Takayasu, reported an unusual wreath-like vascular anastomosis surrounding the optic discs of a young female patient who was nearly iblind, biut who showed 'no general physical changes'. He was unalble to explain this abnormality. Laiter a colleague, Onishi, referred to a similar case wh...

takayasu's arteritis and crohn's disease co morbidity seems to be rare. to our knowledge, no patient with crohn - takayasu syndrome has been reported yet from our region. herein we present a 22 year old iranian woman previously diagnosed with crohn's disease with subsequent development of takayasu's arteritis.