Surgical Treatment of Pulseless (Takayasu's) Disease

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Abstract
OCCLUSIVE disease involving the great vessels of the aortic arch has been the subject of numerous reports and has been given a variety of names including "aortic-arch syndrome,"1 , 2 "pulseless disease,"3 "Martorell's syndrome"4 and "Takayasu's disease,"5 as well as other designations. There are probably several etiologies — the inflammatory arteritis of syphilis,1 2 3 4 5 6 atherosclerosis7 8 9 10 11 12 and the poorly understood arterial occlusive disease usually occurring in young people,1 2 3 , 8 , 13 14 15 the ophthalmologic complications of which were described by Takayasu5 in 1908. It is important not to consider these various types of occlusive disease involving the major branches of the aortic arch as one entity since they . . .