Affiliation:
1. Vascular Surgery Unit, Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Department Hamad Medical Corporation Doha, Qatar
Abstract
Takayasu's arteritis is a rare inflammatory arteriopathy that affects predominantly young females and segmentally involves the aorta and its major branches. Infectious, hereditary, and autoimmune causes of Takayasu's arteritis have all been suggested; yet there is no consensus regarding its cause.
Publisher
Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)