Takayasu's arteritis: Protean manifestations |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China;2. Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center of Nutrition Translation, Guangzhou 510080, China;3. Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;1. Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry, Ministry of Education of the People''s Republic of China, Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 150080, China;2. Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, 25120 Peshawar, Pakistan;3. Department of Medical Laboratory Techniques, Medical Technology College, Al-Farahidi University, Baghdad 10011, Iraq;4. Chemistry Department, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq |
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| Abstract: | An adolescent girl presented with fever, weight loss, and headache. Despite extensive diagnostic studies, the diagnosis of Takayasu's arteritis was made only after she developed bruits and diminished pulses. Although the initial manifestations of Takayasu's arteritis are often protean and confusing, characteristic clinical and radiographic findings develop after the onset of vascular insufficiency. The chest radiograph may provide an early clue to diagnosis, which can be confirmed by arterial digital subtraction aortography. Physicians should consider Takayasu's arteritis in the differential diagnosis of prolonged fever or weight loss in young females because treatment appears to be more effective when started early. |
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