Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown cause. Stroke as a initial presentations without any systemic symptoms are rare. We had two cases of Takayasu's arteritis whose initial presentation were stroke without any significant systemic symptoms. So early detection and initiation of treatment lessens the chance of progression of disease and involvement of other organ...

Takayasu's arteritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that mainly involves medium to large sized arteries. Although pulmonary artery involvement is reported with a prevalence of about 10% to 50%, its clinical significance is underestimated. We report here one case of Takayasu's arteritis complicated by severe pulmonary hypertension due to right main pulmonary artery total occlusion.

A case is presented of cortical blindness in cranial arteritis. A clinical diagnosis at the time of presentation was based on the integrity of the pupillary light reflex and the absence of visually evoked responses. Pathological examination confirmed bilateral occipital infarction. This report stresses the need for recognizing this presentation of cranial arteritis and initiating immediate trea...

Disturbances of liver function tests are common in polymyalgia arteritica, but the underlying liver lesion has not been defined. We report a patient who was demonstrated to have a giant cell arteritis involving both the hepatic and temporal arteries, and we discuss the possibility that such an arteritis involving the hepatic arteries is responsible for the abnormalities of liver function seen i...

Small-vessel arteritis is associated with hypertension because the commonest varieties, granulomatous vasculitis with polyangitis and microscopic polyangitis with antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies, usually cause necrotizing glomerular disease. Medium vessel vasculitis, such as polyarteritis nodosa and Kawasaki disease, are less regularly associated with hypertension. Large-vessel vascul...

BACKGROUND In patients with Takayasu arteritis, circulating lymphocytes are activated, and histological findings indicate that cell-mediated immunity plays an important role in the pathogenetic sequence leading to vascular lesions. METHODS AND RESULTS To delineate the profile of inflammatory and chemoattractant cytokines involved in T-cell activation in Takayasu arteritis, we measured by ELIS...

Although aortic aneurysms associated with Takayasu arteritis are not rare, a total occlusion of the thoracoabdominal aorta enlargement is rare. We have experienced 60-year-old man who underwent second-stage surgery for aneurysm nine years after prior operation an ascending aorta-abdominal bypass atypical coarctation due to arteritis. present successful case treatment result 4 years’ follow-up.

We retrospectively compared 81 temporal artery biopsy specimens demonstrating perivascular inflammation without evidence of temporal arteritis and 76 specimens demonstrating no inflammation. Patients with perivascular inflammation included 43 women (mean age, 71.2 years). Nineteen patients met the 1990 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for the diagnosis of temporal arteritis. All ...

Manifestations and �onsequences The symptoms of temporal arteritis are highly variable. The occurrence of frequent (e.g., daily) temporal or occipital headaches that are resistant to regular analgesics is the most common symptom, found in two-thirds of patients.6 Fever, present in 50% of cases, is usually moderate.6 Anorexia with weight loss and asthenia is observed in one-third of patients.6 I...

Steroid treatment for suspected giant cell arteritis brought no improvement in vision or headache severity.