A 44-year-old housewife was found to have coarctation of the abdominal aorta secondary to Takayasu's arteritis. Since she also had mitral stenosis, possible etiological relation between Takayasu's arteritis and mitral stenosis is suspected.

Cogan's syndrome may be associated with large-vessel arteritis. We describe a patient with ocular inflammation, sensorineural hearing loss and arm claudication in whom a diagnosis of 'atypical' Cogan's syndrome and Takayasu's arteritis was made. All symptoms resolved with treatment.

takayasu’s arteritis (ta) is a rare case of granulomatous arteritis which mainly involves the aorta and its large branches. although arterial hypertension is the most common feature of the disease in both adults and children, patients with ta may present with numerous clinical manifestations. our patient was a 45-year-old woman, known to have hypertension from 3 years earlier following assessme...

neurological manifestation may complicate takayasu arteritis (ta). a 23-year-old girl with sudden onset of vision loss was admitted to hospital. her brain mri showed abnormal t2-signal hyperintensity and visual evoked potential revealed prolonged p100 latency. consequently, optic neuritis was diagnosed. a review on history of dizziness, falling, and weak pulses of upper extremities led to more ...

BACKGROUND Takayasu arteritis and ulcerative colitis are immune-mediated inflammatory diseases; genetic factors are assumed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of these 2 diseases. However, the coexistence of these 2 diseases has rarely been reported. CASE REPORT In this report, we present a rare case of a 29-year-old man with a 4 years history of ulcerative colitis who developed Ta...

Progressive degenerative changes in ageing temporal arteries are described. These changes are usually severe in elderly patients, hence their presence in diagnostic biopsies provides no evidence of temporal arteritis past or present. In two patients in the series of random necropsies examined there were changes in the temporal arteries identical with those seen in patients known to have suffere...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The frequency and amount of intracranial, intradural inflammatory vessel wall enhancement in giant cell arteritis remain unclear. The purpose of this work was to prospectively assess the intracranial extent of vasculitic changes in patients with giant cell arteritis using a dedicated MR imaging protocol optimized for assessment of mural changes of intracranial arteries. ...

Takayasu arteritis is a vasculitic condition which affects large and medium sized vessels primarily aorta its main branches. It rare affecting females more than males between 10 40 years of age with spectrum clinical presentation. Here we present case 58 year old man who presented to us non-specific gastrointestinal symptoms was eventually diagnosed arteritis.

Retinal infarction and scalp necrosis are described as unusual but devastating complications of giant-cell arteritis. We report a patient with this rare complication and emphasize the importance of timely diagnosis and treatment of giant-cell arteritis.

BACKGROUND Central nervous system involvement occurs in as many as twenty percent of Takayasu arteritis cases. When central nervous system disease is present, it typically manifests as cerebral ischemia or stroke. There are rare reports of intracranial aneurysms in adults with Takayasu arteritis, but none in children. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of Takayasu arteritis in an 18 month o...