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COJ Reviews & Research

Takayasu’s Arteritis: Etiopathogenesis and Treatment Strategies

  • Open or ClosePaul Gamboa*

    Departamento de Intervenciones por Cateterismo, Argentina

    *Corresponding author: Paul Gamboa, Departamento de Intervenciones por Cateterismo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Submission: February 03, 2021; Published: March 19, 2021

DOI: 10.31031/COJRR.2020.03.000552

ISSN: 2639-0590
Volume3 Issue1

Abstract

Takayasu’s Arteritis, also known as occlusive thromboaorthopathy, occurs commonly in young women. It is pulseless vasculitis that essentially affects the aorta and its main branches, occurring more frequently in young women [1,2]. The term Takayasu disease was introduced in 1952 by Cacamise et al. [3] in honor to Dr. Mikito Takayasu, professor of ophthalmology at the University of Kanazawa in Japan, who in 1908 reported on peculiar arterio-venous anastomoses in the optic disc, caused by retinal ischemia secondary to large vessel vasculitis in a 21-year-old patient [4,5]. Later, in 1948, Shimizu and Sano detailed the clinical characteristics of the disease [6].

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