Abstract
Takayasu's arteritis is a rare, idiopathic, chronic inammatory disease with cell-mediated inammation, involving mainly the aorta and its major branches. It leads to stenosis, occlusion or aneurysmal degeneration of large arteries. The clinical presentation is characterised by an acute phase with constitutional symptoms, followed, months or years later, by a chronic phase in which symptoms relate to brosis or occlusion of vessels. Angiography is the gold standard for diagnosis and for topographical classication and it correlates with symptoms and prognosis. ¾he píevalence is 2.6-6.4 peísons peí million population(1). Any discíepancy in teíms of pinpointing the píevalence is attíibuted to genetic factoís and difculty in diagnosis.
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