Author:
Blagova O V,Nedostup A V,Sherstneva L V,Grusha Yu O,Gulyaev S V,Shapieva Z S
Abstract
Takayasu’s disease (nonspecific aortoarteritis) affects the absolute majority of 20—40-year-old women; its most common manifestations include aortic arch branch lesions. The specific features of the described case is the male gender of the patient, signs of mesenchymal dysplasia, a concurrence of tuberculosis, pulmonary hemorrhage, and myocarditis at onset, the presence of IgG4, peculiar ocular symptomatology, and its rapid regression after initiation of therapy.
Subject
General Medicine,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,History,Family Practice