Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a rare disease that can be overlooked during the first visit to a GP, rheumatologist, or any other medical specialist due to a variety of its symptoms. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical presentation and the course of patients with TA residing in the Middle Ural. A retrospective analysis was conducted using the medical records of 183 patients treated at the Sverdlovsk Regional Clinical Hospital 1 from 1979 through 2018. The male to female ratio was 1:3. The mean age was 33.5 years for women and 35.2 for men. The most frequently involved arteries were subclavian (101 cases; 55%), carotid (98 cases; 53%) and renal (77 cases; 42%). Type V was the most common angiographic type. Arterial stenosis was present in 94 (51%) patients. Sixty-six patients received surgical interventions. Of all patients included in the analysis, 31 died. The observed 5-year survival was 92%, 10-year survival, 90% and 15-year survival, 80%. Seventy-two patients (39%) developed major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), including myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and thrombosis of large arteries/veins. The clinical presentation of TA may vary in different geographical regions.
Non-specific aortoarteritis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the aorta and its main branches with the stenosis or occlusion development of the affected blood vessels and secondary ischemia of organs and tissues. The main clinical symptoms most often are pulselessness or low-tension pulse on one of hands, the asymmetry of brachial artery systolic blood pressure, intermittent claudication, weakness, weight loss. Non-specific aortoarteritis is an uncommon condition for general practitioners, and the disease manifestations are often interpreted as symptoms of another pathology. It causes large number of diagnostic and tactical mistakes in management of these patients. The relative rarity of nonspecific aortoarteritis becomes one of the factors determining the complexity and time lag of its diagnosis, inadequate treatment, what leads to early disability and high risk of life-threatening complications development. The article considers two clinical cases of non-specific aortoarteritis. In one of them abdominal pain syndrome is on the foreground, in the other - cephalalgia. Often clinicians consider given symptoms in young people as a manifestation of dyspepsia (in the first patient) and one of the vasoneurosis symptoms (in the second one). The difficulty in diagnosis is that there is no specific laboratory and instrumental symptoms which are pathognomonic for nonspecific aortoarteritis as in other vasculitis.
The article described a female patient with high-grade arterial hypertension diagnosed at her young age. Congenital abdominal aortic hyperplasia and conformity with criteria for Takayasu arteritis were diagnosed at 10 years following the clinical manifestation.
Background: Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a systemic vasculitis, affecting mainly large aortal branches. AT is considered to be a rare disease [1]. TA actual frequency in the general population is not estimated due to a number of objective and subjective factors [2]. Gastrointestinal (GI) diseases in TA patients are not sufficiently studied. GI involvement can be a consequence of the main pathological process as well as drug treatment complication. The need to analyze the frequency and structure associated with at lesions of the digestive system determines the relevance of this work.Objective: in a retrospective cohort study to assess the frequency and structure of TA-associated GI pathology.Materials and methods: a retrospective cohort study included 183 patients with verifi ed TA. All had been hospitalized and observed in the Sverdlovsk regional Clinical Hospital 1 from 1979 to 2018, and were examined according to the clinical guidelines valid by the period of hospitalization. The results of 22 fatal cases autopsies were also analyzed. The study was approved by the local Ethical Committee, the Sverdlovsk Regional Clinical Hospital 1.Results: GI diseases were registered in 70 (38%) of the cohort 183 participants. The most frequently registered GI disease was chronic gastritis (28 cases; 40%), nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (22 cases; 31%), chronic pancreatitis (33 cases; 47%). Meanwhile, GI lesion was confi rmed in 20 cases of autopsy (87%). Moreover, 2 tumors of the stomach and hepar were revealed only postmortem.Conclusion: the data obtained emphasize the importance of more thorough clinical and instrumental monitoring of the GI tract in TA patients.
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