Takayas’s Arteritis: Clinical presentation, treatment and importance of Triplex Carotid scanning
Keywords:
Takayasu arteritis, triplex carotid scanningAbstract
The authors present the case of a 25-year-old
woman, with a long standing systemic inflammatory syndrome and non specific features. The
patient was exhaustively studied as an inpatient but a firm diagnosis was not reached. 3.5
months after the initial symptoms and following
a Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA), the suspicion of Takayasu Arteritis was raised following a colour doppler flow image of the cervical vessels. The diagnosis was later confirmed by
pan-aortography. The objective of this paper is to review the
clinical features, monitoring of disease progression and treatment of, highlighting the role
of colour doppler flow image in screening and follow-up of the disease.
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