Takayasu Arteritis Presenting As Congestive Cardiac Failure

Kiran Kumar Singal, Tejinder Talwar, Laxmikant Tanwar, Soumya Singh, - Depali, Bharat Veer

Abstract


Takayasu arteritis is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease that usualy affects the aorta, its primary branches and occasionaly the pulmonary and coronary arteries. The clinical manifestations vary considerably and are typicaly caused by limb or organ ischemia illness and fever. Occasionally, dyspnea and pedal edema can be the sole primary presentation of Takayasu’s arteritis.

International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 03 No. 01 January’19. Page : 37-39


Keywords


Takayasu’s arteritis; congestive heart failure; pulmonary arterial hypertension

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31344/ijhhs.v3i1.73

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