TAKAYASUS ARTERITIS - A STUDY OF 16 AUTOPSY CASES

  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 104  (5) , 231-237
Abstract
Patients [16] with Takayasu''s (idiopathic) arteritis constituted 0.09% of the autopsy population during a 26 yr period. Systemic hypertension was present in 14 patients. All portions of the aorta and its major branches were involved in the 16 patients. Thrombi were scanty, but intimal fibrous plaques and multiple aneurysms were frequent. Patients [3] showed the unusual occurrence of segmental involvement of major epicardial coronary arteries with coronary aneurysm formation in 2 patients. Patients [13] showed residual evidence of inflammation. Coexistent tuberculosis, distant from the arterial lesions, was present in 37.5% of the patients. One patient showed healed pulmonary arteritis. The cause of the disease remains obscure. Emphasis is laid on the application of strict criteria to differentiate specific forms of arteritis e.g., rheumatic mesoaortitis from Takayasu''s arteritis.

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