UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF TAKAYASU-ARTERITIS WITH CARDIAC INVOLVEMENT AND IMITATION OF JUVENILE ARTERIOSCLEROSIS - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
JUNG EM BAUMANN R RAUH G MULLERHOCKER J
Citation
Em. Jung et al., UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF TAKAYASU-ARTERITIS WITH CARDIAC INVOLVEMENT AND IMITATION OF JUVENILE ARTERIOSCLEROSIS - A CASE-REPORT, Angiology, 47(4), 1996, pp. 399-406
Citations number
42
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System","Peripheal Vascular Diseas
Journal title
Angiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00033197
Volume
47
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
399 - 406
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-3197(1996)47:4<399:UPOTWC>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
A twenty-five-year-old Caucasian man with Takayasu arteritis, who was formerly diagnosed as suffering from premature arteriosclerosis, is de scribed. Necropsy disclosed involvement of the entire aorta and its ma jor branches, the pulmonary arteries, the coronary arteries, the intra myocardial arteries, and the heart valves, a combination hitherto not described. Literature concerning heart involvement in Takayasu arterit is is reviewed, and the differential diagnosis is discussed.